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$20 million gift supports theoretical physics research and education at MIT 

Gift from the Leinweber Foundation will drive discovery, collaboration, and the next generation of physics leaders.

May 28, 2025
Categories: Education, Labs & Centers

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Eclipsing binaries

Discovery Alert: First Six-star System Where All Six Stars Undergo Eclipses

January 27, 2021
Categories: In The News, Faculty/Emeritus, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment
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“Hanging it over the edge”: Remembering astronaut and physicist Ronald McNair PhD ’76

January 28, 2021
Categories: Profile, In Remembrance, Students & Alumni, URM STEM
An artist’s rendering of five planets orbiting TOI-1233.

TESS discovers four exoplanets orbiting a nearby sun-like star

January 28, 2021
Categories: In The News, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment

3 Questions: Ernest Moniz on the future of climate and energy under the Biden-Harris administration

January 28, 2021
Categories: Q&A, Faculty/Emeritus, Nuclear Physics Experiment, Strong Interactions and Nuclear Theory
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Shirley Ann Jackson ’68 PhD ’73 to receive AAPT 2021 Oersted Medal

January 26, 2021
Categories: Awards/Honors, Students & Alumni
Illustration of NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite.

Sextuply-eclipsing sextuple star system uncovered in TESS data with an assist from AI

January 28, 2021
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Students & Alumni, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment

How chess plays out at MIT

January 22, 2021
Categories: In The News, Students & Alumni

Four MIT scientists honored with 2021 National Academy of Sciences awards

January 21, 2021
Categories: Awards/Honors, Faculty/Emeritus, Condensed Matter Experiment

Search for axions from nearby star Betelgeuse comes up empty

January 21, 2021
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Students & Alumni, WiSTEM, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment

Transforming quantum computing’s promise into practice

January 19, 2021
Categories: Profile, Faculty/Emeritus, Quantum Information Science, Condensed Matter Experiment

Dr. Andrea Ghez ’87, Only the Fourth Woman to Win the Nobel Prize for Physics, Shows the Rarity of High-Achieving Women in Science

January 19, 2021
Categories: In The News, Students & Alumni, WiSTEM

Precise measurements of cluster formation in outer neutron ‘skin’ of a range of tin isotopes

January 15, 2021
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Particle Physics Experiment
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