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Terahertz microscope reveals the motion of superconducting electrons

For the first time, the new scope allowed physicists to observe terahertz “jiggles” in a superconducting fluid.

February 6, 2026
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Graduate Students, Postdocs, Condensed Matter Experiment

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Rainer Weiss: 50 years of LIGO and gravitational waves

October 5, 2022
Categories: Profile, Faculty/Emeritus, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment
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Simulating neutron behavior in nuclear reactors

October 5, 2022
Categories: In The News, Undergraduates, Students & Alumni, WiSTEM
Caption:“The Hunt for Planet B” team celebrates their Emmy Award at the Palladium Times Square in New York City.

Documentary featuring Professor Sara Seager wins Emmy Award

October 4, 2022
Categories: Awards/Honors, Faculty/Emeritus, WiSTEM, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment
Illustration of 2022 Physics Nobel Laureates: Alain Aspect, John F. Clauser and Anton Zeilinger

They Probed Quantum Entanglement While Everyone Shrugged

October 4, 2022
Categories: In The News, Faculty/Emeritus
The huge sun-like star, left, looks like a blue balloon that turns orange as it’s being sucked into the tiny white dwarf’s orbit. The white dwarf looks like a mini-galaxy, with a blue center and orange rings. The background is black with tiny stars.

Astronomers find a “cataclysmic” pair of stars with the shortest orbit yet

October 4, 2022
Categories: Research, Pappalardo Fellows, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment
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Franklin Chang-Diaz ScD ’77 – Astronaut and CEO

September 26, 2022
Categories: Profile, In The News, Students & Alumni, Alumni
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Peter Shor wins Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics

September 21, 2022
Categories: Awards/Honors, Faculty/Emeritus, Quantum Information Science
JWST's First Glimpses of Early Galaxies Could Break Cosmology

JWST’s First Glimpses of Early Galaxies Could Break Cosmology

September 13, 2022
Categories: In The News, Postdocs, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment
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Kurt Gottfried PhD ’55, Physicist and Foe of Nuclear Weapons, Dies at 93

September 8, 2022
Categories: In Remembrance, In The News, Alumni
Visualization of simulated black hole and its accretion disk

A Black Hole’s Orbiting Ring of Light Could Encrypt Its Inner Secrets

September 7, 2022
Categories: In The News, Faculty/Emeritus, Quantum Gravity and Field Theory

MIT students contribute to success of historic fusion experiment

September 5, 2022
Categories: In The News, Students & Alumni, Graduate Students, Alumni
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Postdoc Yuan Cao named to Nature‘s 10

August 31, 2022
Categories: Awards/Honors, Postdocs, Condensed Matter Experiment
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