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Keeping Perfect Time

While atomic clocks drive modern GPS, scientists like MIT's Vladan Vuletić are "constantly refining and chasing even more perfect time."

April 8, 2026
Categories: Research, Faculty, Atomic Physics

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Erin Kara and John Marshall receive postdoctoral mentoring award

November 13, 2025
Categories: Awards/Honors, Faculty, WiSTEM, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment
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Leading quantum at an inflection point

November 9, 2025
Categories: Labs & Centers, Quantum Information Science, Condensed Matter Experiment
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MIT physicists observe key evidence of unconventional superconductivity in magic-angle graphene

November 5, 2025
Categories: Research, Faculty, Graduate Students, Condensed Matter Experiment

Startup provides a nontechnical gateway to coding on quantum computers

November 3, 2025
Categories: In The News, Students, Alumni

Learning from quantum random circuit sampling? A new benchmarking method

October 27, 2025
Categories: In The News, Faculty, Graduate Students, Quantum Information Science

Support with purpose, driven by empathy

October 26, 2025
Categories: Awards/Honors, Faculty, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment
Diagram of radium atom with nucleus

With a new molecule-based method, physicists peer inside an atom’s nucleus

October 22, 2025
Categories: Research, Faculty, Alumni, Nuclear Physics Experiment

Five with MIT ties elected to National Academy of Medicine for 2025

October 21, 2025
Categories: Awards/Honors, Alumni
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How Millie Dresselhaus paid it forward

October 20, 2025
Categories: Profile, Faculty, WiSTEM, Condensed Matter Experiment
Microcompartments within a 3D structure of the genome

In a surprising discovery, scientists find tiny loops in the genomes of dividing cells

October 16, 2025
Categories: Research, Faculty, Biophysics
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Breaking the old model of education with MIT Open Learning

October 15, 2025
Categories: In The News
Rendering of a functioning quantum computer

Why some quantum materials stall while others scale

October 14, 2025
Categories: Research, Faculty, Condensed Matter Theory
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