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A white robotic arm lines up black boxes in an experiment. A rendering of a futuristic robot lab is in the background.

Robotic lab sets up and runs optics experiments on demand

Autonomous system could speed up testing of high-tech materials for applications such as solar cells, sensors, video displays, and quantum technologies.

September 17, 2026
Categories: Research, Faculty, Condensed Matter Experiment, Condensed Matter Theory

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Six from MIT awarded 2026 Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans

Categories: Awards/Honors, In The News, Graduate Students

Three from MIT named 2026 Goldwater Scholars

Categories: Awards/Honors, Undergraduates, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment, Astrophysics Theory
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Professor Jesse Thaler Honored With 2026 Humboldt Research Award

Categories: Awards/Honors, Faculty, High Energy and Particle Theory, Strong Interactions and Nuclear Theory
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MIT affiliates elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences for 2026

Categories: Awards/Honors, Faculty, Condensed Matter Experiment
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MIT Professor Shu-Heng Shao and Alumnus Yifan Wang Awarded 2026 New Horizons in Physics Prize

Categories: Awards/Honors, Faculty, Alumni, High Energy and Particle Theory, Condensed Matter Theory, Quantum Gravity and Field Theory
A neutrino is represented as a sphere with the letter ‘v,’ and is shot out through space like a laser.

Physicists Propose a New Kind of Laser That Would Fire Neutrinos

Categories: In The News, Faculty, Nuclear Physics Experiment
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MIT Estimates 3 Parameters With Quantum Sensor

Categories: Research, Awards/Honors, Faculty, Graduate Students, Atomic Physics, Quantum Information Science

MIT faculty, alumni receive 2025-26 American Physical Society honors

Categories: Awards/Honors, Faculty, Alumni, Biophysics, Condensed Matter Theory, Nuclear Physics Experiment, Particle Physics Experiment

Multitasking quantum sensors can measure several properties at once

Categories: In The News, Faculty, Quantum Information Science, Atomic Physics
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How strange new ‘altermagnets’ could rewrite physics

Categories: In The News, Faculty, Graduate Students, Condensed Matter Experiment
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Physicists zero in on the mass of the fundamental W boson particle

Categories: Research, Faculty, Particle Physics Experiment
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Experiments dim hopes for sterile neutrinos

Categories: In The News, Faculty, Nuclear Physics Experiment, Particle Physics Experiment
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