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bacterial colonies

In the right place, even a less fit species can win

Published study uses mathematical models to describe the expansion of competing populations.

August 3, 2026
Categories: Research, Faculty, Graduate Students, Biophysics

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Sarah Millholland receives 2024 Vera Rubin Early Career Award

Categories: Awards/Honors, Faculty, 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

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

Categories: Awards/Honors, Undergraduates
closeup of an atom

Scientists Shrunk the Gap Between Atoms to an Astounding 50 Nanometers

Categories: Research, In The News, Faculty, Graduate Students, Atomic Physics

Jeong Min Park earns 2024 Schmidt Science Fellowship

Categories: Awards/Honors, Graduate Students, WiSTEM, Condensed Matter Experiment
Milky Way galaxy surrounded by a diffuse halo of stars

Are some of the oldest stars in the universe right under our noses?

Categories: Research, In The News, Faculty, WiSTEM, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment

John Joannopoulos receives 2024-2025 Killian Award

Categories: Awards/Honors, Faculty, Condensed Matter Theory

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

Categories: Awards/Honors, Faculty, 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

Categories: Research, Faculty, WiSTEM, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment, Astrophysics Theory

Four from MIT named 2024 Knight-Hennessy Scholars

Categories: Awards/Honors, Undergraduates
blue and purple highway of electrons

Physicists create five-lane superhighway for electrons

Categories: Research, Faculty, Graduate Students, Condensed Matter Experiment, Condensed Matter Theory
headshot of Darius Bunandar PhD '18

Darius Bunandar PhD ’18 named to Boston Globe’s Tech Power Players 50 for 2024

Categories: In The News, Graduate Students, Alumni
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