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Jesse Thaler writes on a chalkboard

Jesse Thaler named director of the Laboratory for Nuclear Science

The professor of physics and inaugural director of the NSF IAIFI will lead LNS and continue his research in particle physics.

July 7, 2026
Categories: Labs & Centers, Faculty, Nuclear Physics Experiment, Particle Physics Experiment

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The James Webb Space Telescope

Upcoming launch of $8.8 billion telescope places women’s leading in center focus

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

Message to the Physics Community on the Shootings in Georgia

Emily Levesque ’06: How Have Telescopes Transformed Our Understanding of the Universe?

Categories: In The News, Students, WiSTEM, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment
Dr. Shirley Jackson '68, PhD '73

The Ultimate Role Model for Women in Science

Categories: Interview/Q&A, In The News, Students, URM STEM, WiSTEM
Shows AMS detector on the International Space Station

AMS reveals properties of iron cosmic rays

Categories: Research, In The News, Faculty, Particle Physics Experiment
Graphic representation of a skyrmion.

A New Twist Reveals Superconductivity’s Secrets

Categories: In The News, Faculty, Condensed Matter Experiment
Moire pattern of superconductive trilayer graphene.

A New Twist Reveals Superconductivity’s Secrets

Categories: Research, In The News, Faculty, Condensed Matter Experiment
Frank Wilczek

Frank Wilczek on the Strong Force, Quarks and Dark Matter

Categories: Interview/Q&A, Faculty, High Energy and Particle Theory, Strong Interactions and Nuclear Theory
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Surprise! Space-Time Crystals Are Real

Categories: In The News, Faculty, High Energy and Particle Theory

Exploring generations of influence between South Asia and MIT

Categories: In The News, Students
Artist's impression of quasar P172_18 and its radio jets.

Astronomers Have Discovered the Most Distant Source of Radio Emission Ever Known – 13 Billion Light-Years Away

Categories: Research, In The News, Pappalardo Fellows, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment

Pondering the unknowable

Categories: In The News
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