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At left, deep space image with many galaxies. At right, aerial view of Oulu Cathedral

Transforming deep-space signals into cathedral sound

An immersive sound installation, co-created by MIT Associate Professor Kiyoshi Masui, transforms more than 4,000 cosmic signals into spatial audio.

April 30, 2026
Categories: Research, Faculty, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment

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20 things that went strangely, wonderfully right in 2020

December 30, 2020
Categories: Faculty, WiSTEM

Professor and astrophysicist Sara Seager appointed officer to the Order of Canada

December 22, 2020
Categories: Awards/Honors, Faculty, WiSTEM, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment

The Year in Physics

December 22, 2020
Categories: Research, Faculty, WiSTEM
MIT dome in Spring

Top MIT research stories of 2020

December 21, 2020
Categories: Research, Faculty, WiSTEM, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment
Sara Seager with a telescope in her yard

My satellite would fit in a small suitcase.

December 17, 2020
Categories: In The News, Faculty, WiSTEM, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment
elementary units of magnetism, called spins

Ultracold atoms reveal a new type of quantum magnetic behavior

December 15, 2020
Categories: Research, Faculty, Atomic Physics
optical cavity composed of two mirrors

New type of atomic clock keeps time even more precisely

December 15, 2020
Categories: Research, Faculty, Atomic Physics

Evelyn Hu delivers 2020 Dresselhaus Lecture on leveraging defects at the nanoscale

December 14, 2020
Categories: Events, WiSTEM

Physicists Detect the “Spooky Popcorn of the Universe”

December 12, 2020
Categories: Research, Faculty, WiSTEM, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment

Physicists Prove Anyons Exist, a Third Type of Particle in the Universe

December 11, 2020
Categories: Research, In The News, Faculty, High Energy and Particle Theory, Strong Interactions and Nuclear Theory
A simple diagram of thermoelectric conversion

A cool advance in thermoelectric conversion

December 10, 2020
Categories: Research, Faculty, Condensed Matter Theory

Simulating subatomic physics on a quantum computer

December 9, 2020
Categories: Research, Postdocs, Quantum Information Science
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