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The Plasma Science Experiment showing cups that measure the direction of solar wind

An interstellar instrument takes a final bow

The Plasma Science Experiment aboard NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft turns off after 47 years and 15 billion miles.

October 13, 2024
Categories: Q&A, Faculty/Emeritus, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment

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Riccardo Comin (left), an assistant professor of physics, and physics graduate student Abraham Levitan in lab.

Better superconductors from ceramic copper oxides

December 13, 2018
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Students & Alumni, Condensed Matter Experiment
NASA's Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 probes displayed outside of heliosphere.

3 Questions: MIT goes interstellar with Voyager 2

December 10, 2018
Categories: Q&A, Faculty/Emeritus, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment
Dianna Cowern '11

More than 30 from MIT named to Forbes 30 Under 30 lists

December 7, 2018
Categories: Awards/Honors, Students & Alumni
Creating spin textures in a homogeneous Fermi-Hubbard system.

Atoms stand in for electrons in system for probin high-tempurature superconductors

December 6, 2018
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Students & Alumni, Atomic Physics
LIGO Livingston detector site

LIGO and Virgo announce four new gravitational-wave detections

December 3, 2018
Categories: Research, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment
2018 Marshall Scholars

Senior Radha Mastandrea named 2019 Marshall Scholar

December 2, 2018
Categories: Awards/Honors, Students & Alumni
Jacqueline Hewitt stands with a prototype of one of the four cameras aboard the Transiting Exoplanet Satellite Survey (TESS) instrument.

Jacqueline Hewitt to step down as director of the MIT Kavli Institute

November 29, 2018
Categories: Labs & Centers, Faculty/Emeritus, WiSTEM, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment, Astrophysics Theory
Two versions of the device designed by MIT researchers, using a strip of metal to block direct sunlight to confirm that they could provide cooling without power.

A new way to provide cooling without power

November 28, 2018
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Students & Alumni, Condensed Matter Experiment

Jacqueline Hewitt elected 2018 AAAS Fellow

November 27, 2018
Categories: Awards/Honors, Faculty/Emeritus, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment
MIT researchers Sanfeng Wu, left, a postdoc at MIT, and Pablo Jarillo-Herrero, the Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Physics in lab.

First two-dimensional material that performs as both topological insulator and superconductor

October 31, 2018
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Students & Alumni, Pappalardo Fellows, Postdocs, Condensed Matter Experiment
Photo of the four MIT 2018 Department of Energy Computational Science Graduate Fellows

Computational science grad students awarded U.S. Department of Energy fellowships

October 19, 2018
Categories: Awards/Honors, Students & Alumni, WiSTEM
Physics senior Radha Mastandrea

A passionate advocate for open data

October 18, 2018
Categories: Profile, Students & Alumni, WiSTEM, Particle Physics Experiment
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