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Professor Sarah Millholland and four physics alums named 2025 Sloan Research Fellow

Annual award honors early-career researchers for creativity, innovation, and research accomplishments.

February 23, 2025
Categories: Awards/Honors, Faculty/Emeritus, Alumni, Astrophysics Theory, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment

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A New Era of Black Holes is Here

February 20, 2021
Categories: In The News, Faculty/Emeritus, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment

New Advances Using Exotic Matter May Lead to Ultrafast Computing

February 19, 2021
Categories: Research, In The News, Faculty/Emeritus, Condensed Matter Experiment
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Do We Need an Anti-Nobel Prize?

February 18, 2021
Categories: Faculty/Emeritus
A computer simulation shows the collision of two black holes, detected for the first time by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) in 2015.

How Lasers and Mirrors Proved Gravitational Waves Existed

February 17, 2021
Categories: Awards/Honors, In The News, Faculty/Emeritus, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment

Growing Inventory of Black Holes Offers a Radical Probe of the Cosmos

February 17, 2021
Categories: In The News, Faculty/Emeritus, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment

International Day of Women and Girls in Science: Dr. Si-Hui Tan PhD ’10, chief science officer of Horizon Quantum Computing

February 15, 2021
Categories: In The News, Students & Alumni

A hierarchy of protein patterns robustly decodes cell shape information

February 15, 2021
Categories: Research, In The News, Faculty/Emeritus, Students & Alumni, WiSTEM, Biophysics
Artist's conception of a super Earth exoplanet with its star in the background.

Research updates from TESS: Hunting for worlds beyond our solar system

February 10, 2021
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Students & Alumni, Postdocs, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment
Illustration featuring a lattice of clear hexagons and a lattice of blue and yellow hexagons, superimposed on undulating waves.

Physicists discover important new property for graphene

February 8, 2021
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Students & Alumni, Condensed Matter Experiment
MIT dome in Spring

School of Science presents 2021 Infinite Expansion Awards

February 3, 2021
Categories: Awards/Honors, Postdocs, WiSTEM, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment
Quantum tunneling

Quantum tunneling in graphene advances the age of terahertz wireless communications

February 3, 2021
Categories: Research, Pappalardo Fellows, Postdocs, Condensed Matter Experiment

An art lover dreams of space

February 3, 2021
Categories: Profile, Students & Alumni, WiSTEM, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment
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