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In the right place, even a less fit species can win

Published study uses mathematical models to describe the expansion of competing populations.

August 3, 2026
Categories: Research, Faculty, Graduate Students, Biophysics

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Dark matter could warm the hearts of lonely old planets, scientists predict

Categories: Research, In The News, Faculty, Postdocs, WiSTEM, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment
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MIT astronomers discover new galaxy clusters hiding in plain sight

Categories: Research, Faculty, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment

How Microsoft’s Quantum Boast Went Bust

Categories: Research, In The News, Faculty, Condensed Matter Theory

Retraction of Nature paper puts Majorana research on a new path

Categories: Research, In The News, Faculty, Condensed Matter Theory

Intelligence explained with math

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New books about life in our galaxy, and beyond it.

Categories: In The News, Faculty, Students, WiSTEM, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment
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Teaching the teachers: Gregory Francis PhD ’87 awarded Millikan Medal for physics teaching

Categories: In The News, Students

Astronomers use giant galaxy cluster as X-ray magnefying lens

Categories: In The News, Faculty, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment
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Measuring the invisible

Categories: Research, Profile, Faculty, 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

Categories: In The News, Students, WiSTEM, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment
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Has the black hole information paradox evaporated?

Categories: Research, Faculty, WiSTEM, Quantum Gravity and Field Theory
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The Hunt for Planet B Focuses on Using the James Webb Space Telescope to Search for Life in the Cosmos

Categories: In The News, Faculty, WiSTEM, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment
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