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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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Scientists found a fleeting particle from the universe’s first moments

January 27, 2022
Categories: In The News, Faculty/Emeritus, Postdocs, Particle Physics Experiment
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School of Science announces 2022 Infinite Expansion Awards

January 27, 2022
Categories: Awards/Honors, Postdocs
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Tiny materials lead to a big advance in quantum computing

January 26, 2022
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Undergraduates, Students & Alumni, Alumni, WiSTEM, Condensed Matter Experiment, Quantum Information Science
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Physicists manipulate magnetism with light

January 25, 2022
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Students & Alumni, Graduate Students, WiSTEM, Condensed Matter Experiment
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Vibrating atoms make robust qubits, physicists find

January 25, 2022
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Atomic Physics
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‘Marvelous’: Mass. researchers prepare for experiments with new James Webb Space Telescope

January 26, 2022
Categories: In The News, Faculty/Emeritus, WiSTEM, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment

Physicists discover “secret sauce” behind exotic properties of a new quantum material

January 20, 2022
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Condensed Matter Experiment

Scientists make first detection of exotic “X” particles in quark-gluon plasma

January 20, 2022
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Postdocs, Particle Physics Experiment

TESS Science Office at MIT hits milestone of 5,000 exoplanet candidates

January 19, 2022
Categories: Research, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment
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The World According To Sound: Listening To Black Holes Collide

January 13, 2022
Categories: In The News, Faculty/Emeritus, Astrophysics Theory

Oxygen ions in Jupiter’s innermost radiation belts

January 11, 2022
Categories: In The News, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment

Semiconductor demonstrates elusive quantum physics model

January 10, 2022
Categories: In The News, Faculty/Emeritus, Postdocs, Condensed Matter Theory
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