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Or Hen: Getting to the core of the matter

To understand how everything from atoms to neutron stars behave requires “abstracting away the details to see main principles that drive everything.”

July 26, 2024
Categories: Research, Profile, Faculty/Emeritus, Nuclear Physics Experiment, Particle Physics Experiment

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This Yearʼs Nobels Have Cosmic Reach

October 17, 2019
Categories: Wilczek's Universe, Faculty/Emeritus
Geometric fractals of snowflake

Scientists discover fractal patterns in a quantum material

October 16, 2019
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Condensed Matter Experiment
A simulation of early galaxy formation under three dark matter scenarios.

This is how a “fuzzy” universe may have looked

October 3, 2019
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Astrophysics Theory
MIT physics graduate student Dahlia Klein (left) and postdoc David MacNeill pose in lab

Controlling 2-D magnetism with stacking order

September 30, 2019
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Students & Alumni, Condensed Matter Experiment
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Computing and the search for new planets

September 23, 2019
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Students & Alumni, WiSTEM, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment

Four from MIT named American Physical Society Fellows for 2019

September 20, 2019
Categories: Awards/Honors, Faculty/Emeritus

3Q: Scientists shave estimate of neutrino’s mass in half

September 16, 2019
Categories: Q&A, Faculty/Emeritus, Nuclear Physics Experiment, Particle Physics Experiment
The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) is inspected before its launch in April 2018.

TESS team is awarded NASA’s Silver Achievement Medal

September 12, 2019
Categories: Awards/Honors, Faculty/Emeritus, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment

Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics awarded to Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration for black hole observation

September 6, 2019
Categories: Awards/Honors, Faculty/Emeritus, Condensed Matter Theory, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment
Images showing interference patterns (top) and a Wilson loop (bottom)

Exotic physics phenomenon is observed for first time

September 5, 2019
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Condensed Matter Theory, Condensed Matter Experiment

Big Data Doesn’t Interpret Itself

September 5, 2019
Categories: Wilczek's Universe, Faculty/Emeritus
Image of the cluster Westerlund 2, an obscured compact young star cluster in the Milky Way, and its surroundings.

Physicists design an experiment to pin down the origin of the elements

August 20, 2019
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment
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