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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 2, 2025
Categories: In Remembrance, Faculty/Emeritus, Atomic Physics

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An illustration of a red dwarf star orbited by an exoplanet.

TESS discovers a planet the size of Mars but with the makeup of Mercury

December 2, 2021
Categories: Research, In The News, Faculty/Emeritus, Students & Alumni, Alumni, WiSTEM, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment

Israeli Physicist Netta Engelhardt Finds Key to Solving Stephen Hawking’s Black Hole Paradox

December 1, 2021
Categories: In The News, Faculty/Emeritus, WiSTEM, Astrophysics Theory

Featured video: A musical encore for a re-imagined library

November 29, 2021
Categories: In The News, Students & Alumni, Graduate Students

Scientists discover neutrino simulations are riddled with errors

November 27, 2021
Categories: Research, In The News, Faculty/Emeritus, Nuclear Physics Experiment, Particle Physics Experiment
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Electrons Set the Stage for Neutrino Experiments – Solving Mystery of the Origins of Our Matter-Dominated Universe

November 24, 2021
Categories: In The News, Faculty/Emeritus, Students & Alumni, Graduate Students, WiSTEM, Nuclear Physics Experiment, Particle Physics Experiment

The Cosmic Origins of Silver and Gold

November 24, 2021
Categories: In The News, Faculty/Emeritus, High Energy and Particle Theory, Strong Interactions and Nuclear Theory

How ultracold, superdense atoms become invisible

November 18, 2021
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Students & Alumni, Graduate Students, Alumni, Postdocs, Atomic Physics

Nuclear power and America’s clean energy future

November 18, 2021
Categories: In The News, Faculty/Emeritus, Nuclear Physics Experiment
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Carina Letong Hong named a 2022 Rhodes Scholar for China

November 17, 2021
Categories: Awards/Honors, Undergraduates, Students & Alumni, WiSTEM
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The poetry of physics

November 16, 2021
Categories: Awards/Honors, Students & Alumni, Graduate Students, URM STEM, Condensed Matter Theory
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New material could be two superconductors in one

November 15, 2021
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Students & Alumni, Graduate Students, Postdocs, Condensed Matter Experiment

American Physical Society honors nine with MIT ties for physics research

November 9, 2021
Categories: Awards/Honors, Faculty/Emeritus, Students & Alumni, Alumni, Academic Staff, WiSTEM, URM STEM, Visiting Faculty, Biophysics, High Energy and Particle Theory, Quantum Gravity and Field Theory
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