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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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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
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Physicists discover important new property for graphene

February 8, 2021
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Students & Alumni, Condensed Matter Experiment
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School of Science presents 2021 Infinite Expansion Awards

February 3, 2021
Categories: Awards/Honors, Postdocs, WiSTEM, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment
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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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Scientists as engaged citizens

February 3, 2021
Categories: In The News, Education, Faculty/Emeritus, Students & Alumni
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Astronomers detect extended dark matter halo around ancient dwarf galaxy

February 1, 2021
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Students & Alumni, WiSTEM, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment
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Physicists create tunable superconductivity in twisted graphene “nanosandwich”

February 1, 2021
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Students & Alumni, Condensed Matter Experiment
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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