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Allan MacDonald and Pablo Jarillo-Herrero Win Frontiers of Knowledge Award for “Magic Angle” Discovery

The Frontiers of Knowledge Award goes to Allan MacDonald and Pablo Jarillo-Herrero for their discovery of the “magic angle”

January 16, 2026
Categories: Awards/Honors, Faculty/Emeritus, Condensed Matter Experiment

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Two MIT students named 2021 Rhodes Scholars

November 21, 2020
Categories: Awards/Honors, Students & Alumni, WiSTEM

Cracking the secrets of an emerging branch of physics

November 19, 2020
Categories: In The News

Twisted graphene could power a new generation of superconducting electronics

November 18, 2020
Categories: Research, In The News, Faculty/Emeritus, Condensed Matter Experiment

Phiala Shanahan receives Kenneth G. Wilson Award for work in lattice field theory

November 17, 2020
Categories: Awards/Honors, Faculty/Emeritus, WiSTEM, Strong Interactions and Nuclear Theory

3 Questions: Hsin-Yu Chen on treading lightly when dating the universe

November 12, 2020
Categories: Q&A, In The News, Postdocs, WiSTEM

Searching for the Oldest Stars with Prof. Anna Frebel

November 10, 2020
Categories: Q&A, In The News, Faculty/Emeritus, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment

Kosta Tsipis, MIT physicist and prominent voice for nuclear disarmament, dies at 86

November 8, 2020
Categories: In Remembrance, In The News
Protons and neutrons pair up

No matter the size of a nuclear party, some protons and neutrons will always pair up and dance

November 8, 2020
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Nuclear Physics Experiment, Particle Physics Experiment
Pablo Jarillo-Herrero sitting in his laboratory

Pablo Jarillo-Herrero receives the Lise Meitner Distinguished Lecture and Medal

November 5, 2020
Categories: Awards/Honors, Faculty/Emeritus, Condensed Matter Experiment

For Thomas Searles, a passion for people and science at HBCUs and MIT

November 4, 2020
Categories: Profile, URM STEM, Visiting Faculty, Condensed Matter Experiment

Five MIT researchers receive awards from the American Physical Society

November 3, 2020
Categories: Awards/Honors, Faculty/Emeritus, Students & Alumni, Pappalardo Fellows, WiSTEM, URM STEM, Strong Interactions and Nuclear Theory
A magnetar in outburst

Astronomers report first detection of ultrabright radio flashes in our own galaxy

November 3, 2020
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment
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