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Jeffrey Goldstone, pioneering theoretical physicist and MIT professor emeritus, dies at 93

A pioneer in quantum field theory, string theory, and quantum computing, the former CTP director leaves a research legacy spanning six decades.

October 14, 2026
Categories: In Remembrance, Faculty, Emeritus, High Energy and Particle Theory, Quantum Gravity and Field Theory, Quantum Information Science

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Astronaut Ronald McNair directs a movie from the Earth-orbiting Space Shuttle Challenger.

How NASA’s breakthrough ‘class of ’78’ changed the face of space travel

Categories: In The News, Graduate Students, Alumni, URM STEM
A yellow-lit closeup zooms in on one tiny, rectangular amplifier on the wafer. It has a chain-like rectangular grid in center that connects to the left and right edges of the wafer.

Scientists boost quantum signals while reducing noise

Categories: Research, Faculty, Quantum Information Science
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Accelerating astrophysics with the SpaceX Starship

Categories: In The News, Faculty, WiSTEM, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment
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At Last, the Milky Way Gets a Better Close Up

Categories: In The News, Pappalardo Fellows, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment
Big yellow and small red molecules collide in the middle of the image, in a burst. 4 arrows indicate the back-and-forth reactions that this collision causes.

Physicists observe rare resonance in molecules for the first time

Categories: Research, Faculty, Graduate Students, Atomic Physics

CTP Postdoc Cari Cesarotti Receives 2023 APS Sakurai Dissertation Award in Theoretical Physics

Categories: High Energy and Particle Theory
A unique device is made of sandwiched layers, with yellow and purple on top and blue on bottom. The middle layer is dark grey representing 2 layers of graphene, and the inset shows the graphene layers creating a moiré pattern. The device has a central rectangular shape with 7 more rectangular shapes emanating from it.

Study: Superconductivity switches on and off in “magic-angle” graphene

Categories: Research, Faculty, Students, Graduate Students, Condensed Matter Experiment
sPHENIX detector components

Celebrating the upcoming sPHENIX detector

Categories: In The News, Faculty, Nuclear Physics Experiment
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Astrophysicists turn fast radio bursts into cosmic probes

Categories: In The News, Faculty, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment
Catherine Ji, in the lab with purple gloves and surrounded by microscopes and lab equipment, labels a glass bottle.

“This is the type of life that I want”

Categories: Profile, Undergraduates, Students, WiSTEM, Biophysics
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Arup Chakraborty awarded 2023 Max Delbruck Prize in Biological Physics by APS

Categories: Awards/Honors, Faculty, Biophysics
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Can you trust your quantum simulator?

Categories: Research, Faculty, Quantum Information Science
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