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MIT faculty, alumni named 2026 Sloan Research Fellows

Annual award honors early-career researchers for creativity, innovation, and research accomplishments.

February 24, 2026
Categories: Awards/Honors, Faculty/Emeritus, Pappalardo Fellows, Alumni, WiSTEM, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment

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A cluster of JCVI-syn3.0 cells, showing spherical structures of varying sizes(scale bar, 200 nm).

Artificial life made in lab can grow and divide like natural bacteria

March 28, 2021
Categories: Research, In The News, Students & Alumni, Biophysics
Ion beams shooting at proton clouds.

Physicists flip particle accelerator setup to gain a clearer view of atomic nuclei

March 28, 2021
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Nuclear Physics Experiment

Mission to Jupiter’s icy moon comfirmed

March 27, 2021
Categories: Research, In The News, Faculty/Emeritus, Nuclear Physics Experiment

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

March 27, 2021
Categories: Research, In The News, Faculty/Emeritus, Postdocs, Academic Staff, Nuclear Physics Experiment
An artist concept depicts TESS in front of a lava planet orbiting its host star.

Computing and the search for new planets

March 26, 2021
Categories: In The News, Faculty/Emeritus, Students & Alumni, WiSTEM, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment
Image of exoplanet and its sun.

Dark matter could warm the hearts of lonely old planets, scientists predict

March 25, 2021
Categories: Research, In The News, Faculty/Emeritus, Postdocs, WiSTEM, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment
Image of space featuring a purplish glowing blob at center and two bright stars at lower right.

MIT astronomers discover new galaxy clusters hiding in plain sight

March 25, 2021
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment

How Microsoft’s Quantum Boast Went Bust

March 25, 2021
Categories: Research, In The News, Faculty/Emeritus, Condensed Matter Theory

Retraction of Nature paper puts Majorana research on a new path

March 25, 2021
Categories: Research, In The News, Faculty/Emeritus, Condensed Matter Theory

Intelligence explained with math

March 25, 2021
Categories: Faculty/Emeritus

New books about life in our galaxy, and beyond it.

March 24, 2021
Categories: In The News, Faculty/Emeritus, Students & Alumni, WiSTEM, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment
Gregory Francis PhD '87 demonstrates physics experiments

Teaching the teachers: Gregory Francis PhD ’87 awarded Millikan Medal for physics teaching

March 24, 2021
Categories: In The News, Students & Alumni
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