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Two from MIT awarded 2024 Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans

Fellowship funds graduate studies for outstanding immigrants and children of immigrants.

April 26, 2024
Categories: Awards/Honors, Undergraduates, Alumni, WiSTEM, Quantum Information Science

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For all humankind

February 13, 2024
Categories: In The News, Undergraduates
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To See Black Holes in Stunning Detail, She Uses ‘Echoes’ Like a Bat

February 12, 2024
Categories: Q&A, Faculty/Emeritus, WiSTEM, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment
A wavey array of pink spheres floats like on water. A wavey orange arrow points to the right, and a wavey purple arrow points to the left.

MIT physicists capture the first sounds of heat “sloshing” in a superfluid

February 8, 2024
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Alumni, Atomic Physics
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After 20 years, this scientist uncovered the physics behind the spiral pass

February 7, 2024
Categories: In The News, Academic Staff

Researchers discover new channels to excite magnetic waves with terahertz light

February 6, 2024
Categories: In The News, Postdocs, Condensed Matter Experiment
Eight inset photos of black holes on starry background.

Astronomers spot 18 black holes gobbling up nearby stars

January 29, 2024
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Graduate Students, Postdocs, WiSTEM, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment
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Study: Stars travel more slowly at Milky Way’s edge

January 26, 2024
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Graduate Students, WiSTEM, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment
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Tiny black holes from the dawn of time may be altering our planet’s orbit, new study suggests

January 16, 2024
Categories: In The News, Faculty/Emeritus, Graduate Students, Astrophysics Theory
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Astronomers Find Spark of Star Birth Across Billions of Years

January 11, 2024
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Graduate Students, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment
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

January 8, 2024
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, 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

January 2, 2024
Categories: In The News, Faculty/Emeritus, Alumni, Atomic Physics

Physicists Remotely Sense Radioactive Decay to Probe Fundamental Forces and Particles

December 30, 2023
Categories: In The News, Faculty/Emeritus, Nuclear Physics Experiment
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