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MIT faculty, alumni named 2026 Sloan Research Fellows

Annual award honors early-career researchers for creativity, innovation, and research accomplishments.

February 23, 2026
Categories: Awards/Honors, Faculty/Emeritus, Pappalardo Fellows, Alumni, WiSTEM, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment

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Nobel laureate George Smoot PhD ’70, who researched the universe’s origins at UC Berkeley, dies at 80

September 29, 2025
Categories: In Remembrance, Alumni
Rendering of the Giant Magellan Telescope, located in a mountain setting with many stars at night

MIT joins in constructing the Giant Magellan Telescope

September 29, 2025
Categories: Research, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment
A colorful, stained-glass-style illustration depicting the Quantum Hall Effect. It shows a swirling rainbow vortex on a hexagonal grid, with colorful arrows pointing down, all within a circuit-like frame.

Scientists Found the Hidden ‘Edge State’ That May Lead to Practically Infinite Energy

September 23, 2025
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Atomic Physics
Three small purple spheres are on left, and one large purple sphere is on right. A bending stream of energy is between them. Graphene layers are in the background.

Two young physicists win major award

September 23, 2025
Categories: Awards/Honors, Students & Alumni, Condensed Matter Experiment
Futuristic circuit board emanating energy.

MIT engineers develop a magnetic transistor for more energy-efficient electronics

September 22, 3035
Categories: Research, Graduate Students, Academic Staff, Condensed Matter Experiment
A young woman with dark hair tied back, wearing a black top, sits smiling at a table covered with colorful fabric swatches. The fabrics feature bright patterns in blue, purple, red, and multicolored designs. Behind her is a large wall image with a textured, abstract surface in shades of gray and black.

Quilting with astrophysicists

September 22, 2025
Categories: In The News, Graduate Students

Could a primordial black hole’s last burst explain a mysteriously energetic neutrino?

September 17, 2025
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Graduate Students, High Energy and Particle Theory, Astrophysics Theory
Close-up of a quantum processor suspended inside a cryogenic dilution refrigerator, showing intricate gold-colored wiring and circular components.

Building a quantum workforce

September 14, 2025
Categories: In The News, Faculty/Emeritus, Quantum Information Science

Ten years later, LIGO is a black-hole hunting machine

September 9, 2025
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus
Photo of professors Mohamed Abdelhafez and Peter Dourmashkin drawing frames around themselves with their names using a transparent dry erase board

Interviewing Two MIT Physics Heroes

September 8, 2025
Categories: Q&A, Academic Staff
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Wilczek’s Multiverse | Why it is time for the world to think about the 3 faces of time

September 7, 2025
Categories: In The News, Faculty/Emeritus, High Energy and Particle Theory, Strong Interactions and Nuclear Theory
A neutrino is represented as a sphere with the letter ‘v,’ and is shot out through space like a laser.

Physicists devise an idea for lasers that shoot beams of neutrinos

September 7, 2025
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Nuclear Physics Experiment, Particle Physics Experiment
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