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Multiple layers of graphene

How can electrons can split into fractions of themselves?

Physicists surprised to discover electrons in pentalayer graphene can exhibit fractional charge. New study suggests how this could work.

November 22, 2024
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Alumni, Condensed Matter Theory

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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: 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

Boosting computing power for the future of particle physics

August 19, 2019
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Particle Physics Experiment
Artist’s rendering of the surface of LHS 3844b, a planet that has been found to have no atmosphere.

Rocky, Earth-sized exoplanet is missing an atmosphere

August 19, 2019
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, WiSTEM, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment

Data-mining for dark matter

August 15, 2019
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, High Energy and Particle Theory

Julian Picard: Chopping microwaves, sharpening instincts

August 12, 2019
Categories: Profile, Students & Alumni, Particle Physics Experiment
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