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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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Ultracold Soup – The ‘Superfluid’ States Of Matter

August 23, 2021
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Atomic Physics

Netta Engelhardt on an escape from Hawking’s Black Hole Paradox

August 22, 2021
Categories: Profile, Faculty/Emeritus, WiSTEM, Quantum Gravity and Field Theory
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Multiverse or Cyclic Universe? Alan Guth vs Roger Penrose

August 15, 2021
Categories: Faculty/Emeritus
Headshots of Postdoctoral researcher Dr. Jonas Karthein (left) and Professor Markus Klute (right)

Two members of the Physics community are recognized by the Humboldt Foundation

August 4, 2021
Categories: Awards/Honors, Faculty/Emeritus, Postdocs

3 Questions: David Kaiser and Julie Shah on social and ethical responsibilities of computing

August 2, 2021
Categories: Q&A, Faculty/Emeritus
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Yichen Shen PhD ’16 named to MIT Technology Review’s “35 Innovators Under 35” list

July 25, 2021
Categories: Awards/Honors, Students & Alumni, Alumni
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US Nobel-prize-winning physicist Steven Weinberg dies aged 88

July 25, 2021
Categories: In Remembrance
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Checkelsky and Perez receive tenure

July 21, 2021
Categories: Awards/Honors, Faculty/Emeritus, WiSTEM, Condensed Matter Experiment, Particle Physics Experiment
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“Magic-angle” trilayer graphene may be a rare, magnet-proof superconductor

July 20, 2021
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Students & Alumni, Graduate Students, Postdocs, Condensed Matter Experiment
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Making it through a pandemic senior year with curiosity and community

July 18, 2021
Categories: Profile, Condensed Matter Theory

Electrons in graphene drag light in their wake

July 13, 2021
Categories: Research, In The News, Pappalardo Fellows, Postdocs, Condensed Matter Experiment

Custom-made MIT tool probes materials at the nanoscale

July 12, 2021
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Condensed Matter Experiment
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