News

IAIFI logo on a stylized background showing physics symbols

NSF renews support for MIT-led AI and physics institute, expanding a new model for discovery

IAIFI enters its second phase with increased funding, broader ambitions, and a growing community at the frontier of AI and fundamental physics.

June 5, 2026
Categories: Labs & Centers, Faculty, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment, Astrophysics Theory, High Energy and Particle Theory, Particle Physics Experiment, Strong Interactions and Nuclear Theory, Quantum Gravity and Field Theory, Nuclear Physics Experiment, Quantum Information Science

Filter by

Michael Adler PhD ’71 Recognized for Astrophotography in Retirement

February 19, 2021
Categories: In The News, Students

A New Era of Black Holes is Here

February 19, 2021
Categories: In The News, Faculty, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment

New Advances Using Exotic Matter May Lead to Ultrafast Computing

February 18, 2021
Categories: Research, In The News, Faculty, Condensed Matter Experiment
Illustration of hands holding Nobel Prize medal

Do We Need an Anti-Nobel Prize?

February 17, 2021
Categories: Faculty
A computer simulation shows the collision of two black holes, detected for the first time by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) in 2015.

How Lasers and Mirrors Proved Gravitational Waves Existed

February 16, 2021
Categories: Awards/Honors, In The News, Faculty, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment

Growing Inventory of Black Holes Offers a Radical Probe of the Cosmos

February 16, 2021
Categories: In The News, Faculty, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment

International Day of Women and Girls in Science: Dr. Si-Hui Tan PhD ’10, chief science officer of Horizon Quantum Computing

February 14, 2021
Categories: In The News, Students

A hierarchy of protein patterns robustly decodes cell shape information

February 14, 2021
Categories: Research, In The News, Faculty, Students, WiSTEM, Biophysics
Artist's conception of a super Earth exoplanet with its star in the background.

Research updates from TESS: Hunting for worlds beyond our solar system

February 9, 2021
Categories: Research, Faculty, Students, Postdocs, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment
Illustration featuring a lattice of clear hexagons and a lattice of blue and yellow hexagons, superimposed on undulating waves.

Physicists discover important new property for graphene

February 7, 2021
Categories: Research, Faculty, Students, Condensed Matter Experiment
MIT dome in Spring

School of Science presents 2021 Infinite Expansion Awards

February 2, 2021
Categories: Awards/Honors, Postdocs, WiSTEM, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment
Quantum tunneling

Quantum tunneling in graphene advances the age of terahertz wireless communications

February 2, 2021
Categories: Research, Pappalardo Fellows, Postdocs, Condensed Matter Experiment
1 … 75 76 77 78 79 … 101