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MIT physicists snap the first images of “free-range” atoms

The results will help scientists visualize never-before-seen quantum phenomena in real space.

May 8, 2025
Categories: Atomic Physics

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Professor William Oliver and Michael Menzel ’81 receive 2025 IEEE honors

December 19, 2024
Categories: Awards/Honors, Faculty/Emeritus, Alumni, Quantum Information Science
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When everything in the universe changed

December 19, 2024
Categories: In The News, Faculty/Emeritus, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment

Physicists magnetize a material with light

December 18, 2024
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Graduate Students, Postdocs, Condensed Matter Experiment
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Physics graduate student Andrew Denniston, advisor Prof. Or Hen, and colleagues honored in Physics World’s Top 10 Breakthroughs of the Year for 2024

December 12, 2024
Categories: Awards/Honors, Graduate Students, Nuclear Physics Experiment
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Sylvia Biscoveanu PhD ’23 named to 2024 Forbes 30 Under 30

December 12, 2024
Categories: Awards/Honors, Alumni, WiSTEM
Professor Long Ju wears eye protection while working on experiment with lasers

Exotic New Superconductors Delight and Confound

December 6, 2024
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Condensed Matter Experiment, Condensed Matter Theory
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Neutron Stars Illuminate the Hidden Physics of Quark Superconductivity

December 5, 2024
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Strong Interactions and Nuclear Theory
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Hale Van Dorn Bradt PhD ’61, professor emeritus and X-ray astronomy pioneer, dies at 93

December 3, 2024
Categories: In Remembrance, Faculty/Emeritus, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment
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Photonic processor could enable ultrafast AI computations with extreme energy efficiency

December 2, 2024
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Alumni, Condensed Matter Experiment, Condensed Matter Theory
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Physicists close in on fractionally-charged electron mystery in graphene

December 2, 2024
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Graduate Students, Condensed Matter Experiment, Condensed Matter Theory
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Meet Nergis Mavalvala PhD ’97, Dean of the School of Science

November 21, 2024
Categories: Q&A, Faculty/Emeritus, WiSTEM, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment
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A model of virtuosity

November 19, 2024
Categories: In The News, Alumni
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