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Daniel Kleppner, a white-haired man wearing a blue short-sleeved shirt, sits on what appears to be some kind of swing.

Daniel Kleppner, Physicist Who Brought Precision to GPS, Dies at 92

He worked to develop an atomic clock that is essential to global positioning systems and helped confirm a rare state of matter predicted by Albert Einstein

July 15, 2025
Categories: In Remembrance, Faculty/Emeritus, Atomic Physics

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Dr. Shirley Jackson '68, PhD '73

The Ultimate Role Model for Women in Science

March 17, 2021
Categories: Q&A, In The News, Students & Alumni, WiSTEM, URM STEM
Shows AMS detector on the International Space Station

AMS reveals properties of iron cosmic rays

March 17, 2021
Categories: Research, In The News, Faculty/Emeritus, Particle Physics Experiment
Graphic representation of a skyrmion.

A New Twist Reveals Superconductivity’s Secrets

March 16, 2021
Categories: In The News, Faculty/Emeritus, Condensed Matter Experiment
Moire pattern of superconductive trilayer graphene.

A New Twist Reveals Superconductivity’s Secrets

March 16, 2021
Categories: Research, In The News, Faculty/Emeritus, Condensed Matter Experiment
Frank Wilczek

Frank Wilczek on the Strong Force, Quarks and Dark Matter

March 15, 2021
Categories: Q&A, Faculty/Emeritus, High Energy and Particle Theory, Strong Interactions and Nuclear Theory
Photo of crystal pyramid

Surprise! Space-Time Crystals Are Real

March 13, 2021
Categories: In The News, Faculty/Emeritus, High Energy and Particle Theory

Exploring generations of influence between South Asia and MIT

March 10, 2021
Categories: In The News, Students & Alumni
Artist's impression of quasar P172_18 and its radio jets.

Astronomers Have Discovered the Most Distant Source of Radio Emission Ever Known – 13 Billion Light-Years Away

March 8, 2021
Categories: Research, In The News, Pappalardo Fellows, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment

Pondering the unknowable

March 5, 2021
Categories: In The News
Points of You book cover

MIT Authors Create TikTok Campaign For Charity: Points Of You

March 4, 2021
Categories: In The News, Students & Alumni
Aerial photo of the MIT dome and Killian Court facing the Charles River and Boston.

QS World University Rankings rates MIT No. 1 in Physics and Astronomy for 2021

March 3, 2021
Categories: Awards/Honors, Education

Fostering ethical thinking in computing

March 2, 2021
Categories: In The News, Faculty/Emeritus
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