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Daniel Kleppner, prize-winning physicist, dies at 92

The MIT professor, a recipient of the National Medal of Science, developed technologies that helped pave the way for the Global Positioning System.

July 6, 2025
Categories: In Remembrance, Faculty/Emeritus, Atomic Physics

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Scientists develop the largest, most detailed model of the early universe to date

March 24, 2022
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Postdocs, Astrophysics Theory
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MIT graduate engineering, business, science programs ranked highly by U.S. News for 2023

March 29, 2022
Categories: In The News, Education
Demonstration of propagating waves on MIT’s Bell Labs Wave Machine

Vibrations and Waves

March 28, 2022
Categories: In The News, Education, Postdocs
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Ukraine@MIT

March 23, 2022
Categories: In The News, Students & Alumni
Halloween asteroid

NASA Bets on an Asteroid Killer, a Venusian Balloon, and More New Tech

March 22, 2022
Categories: In The News, Faculty/Emeritus, WiSTEM, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment
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A strange monopole observed in diamond: When string theory inspires quantum simulation

March 22, 2022
Categories: In The News, Faculty/Emeritus, WiSTEM, Atomic Physics, Quantum Information Science
mountainous structure created by Josh Borrow from a SWIFT cosmological simulation

For MIT astrophysicist Josh Borrow, he’s just trying to figure out how the universe works

March 19, 2022
Categories: In The News, Postdocs, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment

Last-minute pivot leads to record-setting Microsystems Annual Research Conference

March 18, 2022
Categories: In The News, Faculty/Emeritus
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Physicists find direct evidence of strong electron correlation in a 2D material for the first time

March 17, 2022
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Condensed Matter Experiment

Correcting Our Errors About Errors

March 17, 2022
Categories: Faculty/Emeritus

A fabric that “hears” your heartbeat

March 16, 2022
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Condensed Matter Theory
Mildred Dresselhaus

How a Nobel-winning biophysicist launched the career of the “Queen of Carbon”

March 13, 2022
Categories: In The News, Faculty/Emeritus, Condensed Matter Experiment
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