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How ultracold, superdense atoms become invisible

A new study confirms that as atoms are chilled and squeezed to extremes, their ability to scatter light is suppressed.

November 27, 2021
Categories: Research, Faculty, Students & Alumni, Postdocs, Atomic Physics

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Disney+ NASA series “Among the Stars” to focus on mission to repair the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS)

September 15, 2021
Categories: In The News, Faculty, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment

Astronomers nail down the origins of rare loner dwarf galaxies

September 6, 2021
Categories: Research, Faculty, Astrophysics Theory

The laws of physics and the physics of law

September 2, 2021
Categories: Profile, Students & Alumni, WiSTEM, URM STEM
Physics postdoc and grad student stand in MIT lab.

Physicists engineer new property out of “white” graphene

August 30, 2021
Categories: Research, Faculty, Students & Alumni, Postdocs, WiSTEM, Condensed Matter Experiment

Scene at MIT: Serene summer sunset on the Charles

August 27, 2021
Categories: In The News, Postdocs

TESS Science Conference II draws nearly 700 virtual attendees

August 25, 2021
Categories: In The News, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment
Headshots of Soonwon Choi, Lina Necib, and Andrew Vanderburg

School of Science welcomes new faculty

August 24, 2021
Categories: Education, Faculty, Students & Alumni, WiSTEM, Quantum Information Science, Atomic Physics, Condensed Matter Theory, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment, Astrophysics Theory

Quantum computing: Exotic particle had an ‘out-of-body experience’

August 24, 2021
Categories: In The News, Faculty, Condensed Matter Theory
glowing cloud of atoms

Ultracold Soup – The ‘Superfluid’ States Of Matter

August 24, 2021
Categories: Research, Podcast, Faculty, Atomic Physics
MIT Physics professor, Netta Engelhardt

Netta Engelhardt on an escape from Hawking’s Black Hole Paradox

August 23, 2021
Categories: Profile, Faculty, WiSTEM, Quantum Gravity and Field Theory
Zoom windows of video speakers

Multiverse or Cyclic Universe? Alan Guth vs Roger Penrose

August 16, 2021
Categories: Video, Faculty
Headshots of Postdoctoral researcher Dr. Jonas Karthein (left) and Professor Markus Klute (right)

Two members of the Physics community are recognized by the Humboldt Foundation

August 5, 2021
Categories: Awards/Honors, Faculty, Postdocs
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