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3 Questions: On the future of AI and the mathematical and physical sciences

Thaler describes vision for two-way bridge between artificial intelligence and the mathematical and physical sciences — one that promises to advance both.

March 17, 2026
Categories: Q&A, Faculty/Emeritus, High Energy and Particle Theory, Strong Interactions and Nuclear Theory

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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

Astronomers use giant galaxy cluster as X-ray magnefying lens

March 24, 2021
Categories: In The News, Faculty/Emeritus, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment
Lindley Winslow

Measuring the invisible

March 23, 2021
Categories: Research, Profile, Faculty/Emeritus, WiSTEM, Particle Physics Experiment, Nuclear Physics Experiment
TESS and variety of possible exoplanets it has detected.

Space Telescope Delivers the Goods: 2,200 Possible Planets

March 22, 2021
Categories: In The News, Students & Alumni, WiSTEM, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment
Illustration of cats representing correlated information inside and outside of a black hole.

Has the black hole information paradox evaporated?

March 22, 2021
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, WiSTEM, Quantum Gravity and Field Theory
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