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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 24, 2026
Categories: Awards/Honors, Faculty/Emeritus, Pappalardo Fellows, Alumni, WiSTEM, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment

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A new upper limit on the mass of neutrinos

February 13, 2022
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Nuclear Physics Experiment, Particle Physics Experiment

Early findings from HERA telescope promise deeper understanding of the cosmic dawn

February 10, 2022
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Pappalardo Fellows, WiSTEM, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment
James Web Space Telescope during assembly in TKYEAR

Looking up in the sky, seeking answers of the beginning

February 10, 2022
Categories: In The News, Faculty/Emeritus, WiSTEM, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment

MIT.nano receives grant to acquire focused ion beam scanning electron microscope

February 8, 2022
Categories: In The News, Condensed Matter Theory, Condensed Matter Experiment
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Jim Gates ’73 Phd ’77 gives back

February 7, 2022
Categories: Profile, In The News, Students & Alumni, Alumni, URM STEM
Discarded blue medical mask laying on ground

Masks Work. Why Were We Slow to Say It?

February 7, 2022
Categories: In The News, Students & Alumni, Graduate Students
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3 Questions: Khueli Dutt reflects on diversity in science

February 7, 2022
Categories: Education
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From modeling quantum devices to political systems

February 7, 2022
Categories: Profile, Undergraduates, Students & Alumni
A painted cartoon of a mountain with paths leading up and down and stick figures on the paths

Scientists discover a mysterious transition in an electronic crystal

February 6, 2022
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Students & Alumni, Graduate Students, Condensed Matter Experiment
Venus

First private mission to Venus could open new avenues for space exploration

February 4, 2022
Categories: In The News, Faculty/Emeritus, WiSTEM, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment
Frank Wilczek

We’re All Still Living in Euclid’s World

February 3, 2022
Categories: In The News, Faculty/Emeritus, High Energy and Particle Theory, Strong Interactions and Nuclear Theory
The CMS Experiment at CERN

Mysterious X particle spotted in quark–gluon plasma at CERN

February 1, 2022
Categories: In The News, Faculty/Emeritus, Particle Physics Experiment
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