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Man stands in front of the MIT dome, holding a circular wafer displaying moire patterns over his head

Pablo Jarillo-Herrero wins Kavli Prize in Nanoscience

The MIT physicist shares the honor with two others for foundational research establishing the field of twistronics.

June 11, 2026
Categories: Awards/Honors, Faculty, Condensed Matter Experiment

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How the Physics of Nothing Underlies Everything

August 8, 2022
Categories: In The News, Faculty, Quantum Gravity and Field Theory

Scientists capture first-ever view of a hidden quantum phase in a 2D crystal

July 21, 2022
Categories: In The News, Faculty, Condensed Matter Experiment
Artist depiction of Interstellar Probe, with its dish facing upward.

The Long Shot

July 27, 2022
Categories: In The News, Students, Alumni, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment

Loureiro wins a 2022 School of Engineering Award

July 18, 2022
Categories: Awards/Honors, Faculty, Astrophysics Theory

A way forward on the climate crisis and energy insecurity

July 17, 2022
Categories: In The News, Faculty, Nuclear Physics Experiment

Donald “Bruce” Montgomery, influential electromagnet engineer, dies at 89

July 14, 2022
Categories: In The News

A new spin on nuclear magnetic moments

July 13, 2022
Categories: Research, Faculty, Nuclear Physics Experiment

Physicists harness quantum “time reversal” to measure vibrating atoms

July 13, 2022
Categories: Research, Faculty, Atomic Physics

MIT welcomes eight MLK Visiting Professors and Scholars for 2022-23

July 13, 2022
Categories: In The News, Visiting Faculty, URM STEM, High Energy and Particle Theory, Strong Interactions and Nuclear Theory
CHIME telescope against starry sky with streaks of light

Astronomers detect a radio “heartbeat” billions of light-years from Earth

July 12, 2022
Categories: Research, Faculty, Students, Graduate Students, Postdocs, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment
an undulating, translucent star-forming region in the Carina Nebula is shown in this Webb image, hued in ambers and blues; foreground stars with diffraction spikes can be seen, as can a speckling of background points of light through the cloudy nebula

‘I’m beyond stoked.’ For local astronomers, first Webb telescope images elicit awe, wonder, and relief.

July 12, 2022
Categories: In The News, Faculty, WiSTEM, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment
Micrograph of a cluster of hundreds of hexagonal shapes fitted tightly together, with dots inside each shape

Starfish embryos swim in formation like a “living crystal”

July 12, 2022
Categories: Research, Faculty, Students, Graduate Students, WiSTEM, Biophysics
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