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headshot of Daniel Kleppner

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 5, 2025
Categories: In Remembrance, Faculty/Emeritus, Atomic Physics

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Nergis Mavalvala poses in front of MIT dome

Superwomen of Science

February 11, 2025
Categories: In The News, Faculty/Emeritus, WiSTEM
star being torn apart by a black hole

An astrophysicist warns of an unprecedented supermassive black hole: “We’ve never seen this”

February 7, 2025
Categories: Research, Graduate Students, WiSTEM, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment
headshot of Professor David Kaiser

The double helix of science and democracy

February 7, 2025
Categories: In The News, Faculty/Emeritus
The quarks and gluons in short-range correlated nucleons may be distributed differently

Correlated Nucleon Pairs Predict Quark-Gluon Distributions

February 6, 2025
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Graduate Students, Nuclear Physics Experiment, Particle Physics Experiment

3 Questions: What the laws of physics tell us about CO2 removal

February 6, 2025
Categories: Q&A, Faculty/Emeritus, High Energy and Particle Theory

Physicists measure a key aspect of superconductivity in “magic-angle” graphene

February 5, 2025
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Alumni, Condensed Matter Experiment
headshots of Netta Engelhardt and Nuno Loureiro

Engelhardt and Loureiro receive 2025 Presidential Early Career Awards

February 3, 2025
Categories: Awards/Honors, Faculty/Emeritus, WiSTEM

Rare and mysterious cosmic explosion: Gamma-ray burst or jetted tidal disruption event?

January 29, 2025
Categories: Research, Alumni, Postdocs, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment
Two people stand outside of Ganado Chapter House of the Navajo Nation in Ganado, AZ.

Diné MIT Graduate Cory Romanov SB ’24 Connects with Congressman David Schweikert During Navajo Nation Visit

January 24, 2025
Categories: In The News, Alumni, Academic Staff, URM STEM
CHIME, the large radio telescope.

Two mysterious fast radio bursts originated from wildly different places in space

January 24, 2025
Categories: In The News, Faculty/Emeritus, Postdocs, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment
three physicists in their lab

Physicists discover — and explain — unexpected magnetism in an atomically thin material

January 23, 2025
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Graduate Students, Pappalardo Fellows, Condensed Matter Experiment, Condensed Matter Theory
Rendering of a mosaic nanoparticle

A new vaccine approach could help combat future coronavirus pandemics

January 23, 2025
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Biophysics
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