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Turning to the text box: How LLMs are used by first-years taking 8.01

Students and instructors in Physics I (8.01) discuss how AI has impacted how the class is taught

November 26, 2025
Categories: Education, Faculty/Emeritus, Students & Alumni

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The Milky Way galaxy streaks diagonally across the image, glowing with celestial bodies.

Three of the universe’s oldest stars have just been identified — and they’re in our cosmic backyard

May 29, 2024
Categories: Q&A, Faculty/Emeritus, Undergraduates, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment, Astrophysics Theory
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Physicists Puzzle Over Emergence of Strange Electron Aggregates

May 28, 2024
Categories: Research, In The News, Faculty/Emeritus, Condensed Matter Experiment

Sarah Millholland receives 2024 Vera Rubin Early Career Award

May 21, 2024
Categories: Awards/Honors, Faculty/Emeritus, WiSTEM, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment, Astrophysics Theory

Using wobbling stellar material, astronomers measure the spin of a supermassive black hole for the first time

May 21, 2024
Categories: In The News, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment
headshots of 2024 Fulbright winners: April Cheng, Ryan McTigue, and Olivia Rosenstein

Eleven from MIT awarded 2024 Fulbright fellowships

May 19, 2024
Categories: Awards/Honors, Undergraduates
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Scientists Shrunk the Gap Between Atoms to an Astounding 50 Nanometers

May 16, 2024
Categories: Research, In The News, Faculty/Emeritus, Graduate Students, Atomic Physics

Jeong Min Park earns 2024 Schmidt Science Fellowship

May 15, 2024
Categories: Awards/Honors, Graduate Students, WiSTEM, Condensed Matter Experiment
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Are some of the oldest stars in the universe right under our noses?

May 15, 2024
Categories: Research, In The News, Faculty/Emeritus, WiSTEM, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment

John Joannopoulos receives 2024-2025 Killian Award

May 14, 2024
Categories: Awards/Honors, Faculty/Emeritus, Condensed Matter Theory

Five MIT faculty elected to the National Academy of Sciences for 2024

May 13, 2024
Categories: Awards/Honors, Faculty/Emeritus, Condensed Matter Theory
The Milky Way galaxy streaks diagonally across the image, glowing with celestial bodies.

MIT researchers discover the universe’s oldest stars in our own galactic backyard

May 13, 2024
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, WiSTEM, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment, Astrophysics Theory

Four from MIT named 2024 Knight-Hennessy Scholars

May 12, 2024
Categories: Awards/Honors, Undergraduates
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