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Eight with MIT ties win 2025 Hertz Foundation Fellowships

The fellowships recognize doctoral students who have “the creativity and leadership necessary to tackle problems others can’t solve.”

June 3, 2025
Categories: Awards/Honors, Undergraduates, WiSTEM

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A year after #Strike4BlackLives/#ShutDownSTEM, Part 1: What’s been done?

June 19, 2021
Categories: In The News, Education, URM STEM
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Tests of general relativity with gravitational waves can go awry

June 18, 2021
Categories: In The News, Faculty/Emeritus, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment
LIGO optics technicians examining one of LIGO's mirrors.

Physicists bring human-scale object to near standstill, reaching a quantum state

June 18, 2021
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Students & Alumni, Postdocs, WiSTEM, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment
3D drawing of a tunable coupler, which features two + figures plus a number of lines and graduated gauges.

Clearing the way toward robust quantum computing

June 16, 2021
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Quantum Information Science
Detail from Johann Bayer's 1603 star atlas Uranometria

A primordial merger of galactic building blocks

June 14, 2021
Categories: Research, In The News, Faculty/Emeritus, Students & Alumni, WiSTEM, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment
Illustration of roulette wheel

The Power and Poetry of Random Digits

June 10, 2021
Categories: Faculty/Emeritus
sky map of FRBs based on CHIME detections

Hundreds of mysterious fast radio bursts detected in space

June 10, 2021
Categories: In The News, Faculty/Emeritus, Students & Alumni, WiSTEM, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment
CHIME, the large radio telescope.

CHIME telescope detects more than 500 mysterious fast radio bursts in its first year of operation

June 9, 2021
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Students & Alumni, WiSTEM, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment

QS ranks MIT the world’s No. 1 university for 2021-22

June 8, 2021
Categories: In The News
False-color image of the sun.

Stars Made of Antimatter Might Be Lurking in the Universe

June 7, 2021
Categories: In The News, Faculty/Emeritus, Particle Physics Experiment
digital fibers on green fabric

Engineers create a programmable fiber

June 3, 2021
Categories: Research, In The News, Faculty/Emeritus, Condensed Matter Experiment, Condensed Matter Theory

Accelerating AI at the speed of light

June 2, 2021
Categories: Profile, Students & Alumni, Condensed Matter Theory, Condensed Matter Experiment
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