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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.

June 30, 2025
Categories: In Remembrance, Faculty/Emeritus, Atomic Physics

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Predicting microbial interactions in the human gut

March 1, 2021
Categories: Research, In The News, Postdocs, Biophysics
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Quantum computer captures physics of high-energy particles

February 24, 2021
Categories: Research, In The News, Faculty/Emeritus, High Energy and Particle Theory
Daniel Chonde

Creating empathy by connecting the seemingly disparate dots

February 23, 2021
Categories: Profile, Students & Alumni, URM STEM
MIT graduate student Daniel Korsun ’20

Keeping an eye on the fusion future

February 22, 2021
Categories: Profile, Students & Alumni, Nuclear Physics Experiment

Michael Adler PhD ’71 Recognized for Astrophotography in Retirement

February 20, 2021
Categories: In The News, Students & Alumni

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
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