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MIT students study plasma physics beneath Alaska’s aurora

Student-led expeditions use distributed instruments to observe auroral structures and probe space plasma in real-world conditions.

May 22, 2026
Categories: In The News, Faculty, Graduate Students, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment

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MIT welcomes nine MLK Visiting Professors and Scholars for 2023-24

September 26, 2023
Categories: In The News, Visiting Faculty, WiSTEM, Astrophysics Theory
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From physics to generative AI: An AI model for advanced pattern generation

September 26, 2023
Categories: Research, Graduate Students, Quantum Information Science
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Aram Harrow ’01, PhD ’05 and Leonid Mirny named 2023 Simons Investigators

September 25, 2023
Categories: Awards/Honors, Faculty

School of Science welcomes new faculty in 2023

September 24, 2023
Categories: Education, Faculty, WiSTEM
Superconducting qubit architecture resembling a cross, has blue “T” in center and four squares on longer ends.

New qubit circuit enables quantum operations with higher accuracy

September 24, 2023
Categories: Research, Faculty, Alumni, Quantum Information Science
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Soonwon Choi wins 2024 Inchon Award

September 18, 2023
Categories: Awards/Honors, Faculty, Quantum Information Science

The Physical Process That Powers a New Type of Generative AI

September 18, 2023
Categories: In The News, Faculty, Graduate Students
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Mikhail Ivanov wins 2024 New Horizons in Physics Breakthrough Prize

September 17, 2023
Categories: Awards/Honors, Faculty
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Five MIT faculty members named 2023 Simons Investigators

September 13, 2023
Categories: Awards/Honors, Faculty
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Harnessing the Void: MIT Controls Quantum Randomness For the First Time

September 8, 2023
Categories: Research, Faculty
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Max Tegmark named to TIME100 Most Influential People in AI

September 6, 2023
Categories: Awards/Honors, Faculty
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Canceling noise to improve quantum devices

September 5, 2023
Categories: Research, Faculty, WiSTEM, Quantum Information Science
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