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Viewing the universe through ripples in space

Physicist Salvatore Vitale is looking for new sources of gravitational waves, to reach beyond what we can learn about the universe through light alone.

February 19, 2025
Categories: Research, Profile, Faculty/Emeritus, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment

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16-qubit superconducting quantum chip

MIT partners with national labs on two new National Quantum Information Science Research Centers

August 31, 2020
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Quantum Information Science
Five by four grid of first-year students crossing their arms in a team-building exercise on Zoom

Bringing MIT magic to first-years everywhere

August 28, 2020
Categories: Events, Students & Alumni
Cosmic rays traveling through space

Cosmic rays may soon stymie quantum computing

August 26, 2020
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Nuclear Physics Experiment
IAIFI illustration

National Science Foundation announces MIT-led Institute for Artificial Intelligence and Fundamental Interactions

August 26, 2020
Categories: Labs & Centers, Nuclear Physics Experiment, Particle Physics Experiment, Strong Interactions and Nuclear Theory

Are we still listening to space?

August 19, 2020
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment
Carolyn Beatrice Parker

J.J Finley Elementary’s new namesake: Carolyn Beatrice Parker SM ’53

August 18, 2020
Categories: Awards/Honors, In The News, Students & Alumni, WiSTEM, URM STEM

Nergis Mavalvala named School of Science dean

August 17, 2020
Categories: Awards/Honors, Faculty/Emeritus, WiSTEM, URM STEM, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment
Paul Dirac

The Pleasure and Pain of Scientific Predictions

August 20, 2020
Categories: Faculty/Emeritus

Nuh Gedik and Pablo Jarillo-Herrero are 2020 Moore Experimental Investigators in Quantum Materials

August 10, 2020
Categories: Awards/Honors, Faculty/Emeritus, Condensed Matter Experiment
Molten lava glowing in crucible

Lava oceans may not explain the brightness of some hot super-Earths

August 4, 2020
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment
Quantum blackjack

Can a quantum strategy help bring down the house?

August 3, 2020
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Quantum Information Science

Q&A: Peter Fisher discusses JASON report on reopening university laboratories

July 30, 2020
Categories: Q&A, Faculty/Emeritus
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