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Anything-goes “anyons” may be at the root of surprising quantum experiments

MIT physicists say these quasiparticles may explain how superconductivity and magnetism can coexist in certain materials.

December 24, 2025
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Graduate Students, Condensed Matter Theory, Quantum Gravity and Field Theory

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MIT engineers develop a magnetic transistor for more energy-efficient electronics

September 22, 3035
Categories: Research, Graduate Students, Academic Staff, Condensed Matter Experiment
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Quilting with astrophysicists

September 22, 2025
Categories: In The News, Graduate Students

Could a primordial black hole’s last burst explain a mysteriously energetic neutrino?

September 17, 2025
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Graduate Students, High Energy and Particle Theory, Astrophysics Theory
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Building a quantum workforce

September 14, 2025
Categories: In The News, Faculty/Emeritus, Quantum Information Science

Ten years later, LIGO is a black-hole hunting machine

September 9, 2025
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus
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Interviewing Two MIT Physics Heroes

September 8, 2025
Categories: Q&A, Academic Staff
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Wilczek’s Multiverse | Why it is time for the world to think about the 3 faces of time

September 7, 2025
Categories: In The News, Faculty/Emeritus, High Energy and Particle Theory, Strong Interactions and Nuclear Theory
A neutrino is represented as a sphere with the letter ‘v,’ and is shot out through space like a laser.

Physicists devise an idea for lasers that shoot beams of neutrinos

September 7, 2025
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Nuclear Physics Experiment, Particle Physics Experiment
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What’s the Smallest Particle in the Universe?

September 3, 2025
Categories: In The News, Faculty/Emeritus, WiSTEM, Particle Physics Experiment, Nuclear Physics Experiment

New particle detector passes the “standard candle” test

September 1, 2025
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Nuclear Physics Experiment, Particle Physics Experiment

Professor Emeritus Rainer Weiss, influential physicist who forged new paths to understanding the universe, dies at 92

August 25, 2025
Categories: In Remembrance, Faculty/Emeritus, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment
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Junior Peña, neutrino hunter

August 25, 2025
Categories: Profile, Graduate Students, Nuclear Physics Experiment, Particle Physics Experiment
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