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MIT Open Learning reaches all the way to the South Pole

John Della Costa uses OpenCourseWare to engage fellow Antarctica “winterovers” in physics content, and to build community.

June 17, 2026
Categories: Education, Faculty

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Thousands of tiny lights hang from the ceiling of an at least 15-story hotel-style atrium. They are seen from the ground looking up.

Technique could efficiently solve partial differential equations for numerous applications

Categories: Research, Faculty, Condensed Matter Theory
A Bose–Einstein condensate emerges from a cloud of cold rubidium atoms

Coldest: how a letter to Einstein and advances in laser-cooling technology led physicists to new quantum states of matter

Categories: In The News, Faculty, Alumni, Atomic Physics

Physicists Remotely Sense Radioactive Decay to Probe Fundamental Forces and Particles

Categories: In The News, Faculty, Nuclear Physics Experiment
Four planets in space with one having a thinner atmosphere cloud than the rest

A carbon-lite atmosphere could be a sign of water and life on other terrestrial planets, MIT study finds

Categories: In The News, Faculty, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment
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MIT Physics Students Win National Recognition

Categories: Awards/Honors, Undergraduates
artistic interpretation of brain-like computing

New brain-like transistor mimics human intelligence

Categories: In The News, Faculty, Condensed Matter Experiment
student standing in street posing

The science and art of complex systems

Categories: Profile, Undergraduates
three students sit at desk with others sitting in gallery

In defense of dark skies

Categories: In The News, Undergraduates, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment

Ronald Garcia Ruiz named a Popular Science “Brilliant 10”

Categories: Awards/Honors, Faculty, Nuclear Physics Experiment
Aurora supercomputer machinery

Argonne’s Aurora supercomputer to help scientists advance dark matter research

Categories: Research, Faculty, WiSTEM, Strong Interactions and Nuclear Theory

Scientists design program for the future of US particle physics research

Categories: In The News, Faculty, High Energy and Particle Theory

Dr. Nergis Mavalvala Helped Detect the First Gravitational Wave. Her Work Doesn’t Stop There

Categories: Profile, Faculty, WiSTEM, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment
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