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Daniel Kleppner, prize-winning physicist, dies at 92

The MIT professor, a recipient of the National Medal of Science, developed technologies that helped pave the way for the Global Positioning System.

June 30, 2025
Categories: In Remembrance, Faculty/Emeritus, Atomic Physics

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K. Renee Horton, NASA scientist and past president of the National Society of Black Physicists, speaks with students at a recent physics conference.

Making physics and astronomy more welcoming to African-American students

January 13, 2020
Categories: Q&A, Education
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Are We Living in a Simulated World?

January 9, 2020
Categories: Faculty/Emeritus
Giant cavities in the X-ray emitting intracluster medium have been carved out by a black hole outburst.

The billion-year belch

December 23, 2019
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Students & Alumni, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment

Anoushka Bose: Targeting a career in security studies and diplomacy

December 17, 2019
Categories: Profile, Students & Alumni, WiSTEM, Nuclear Physics Experiment, Strong Interactions and Nuclear Theory
This illustration shows the characteristic “sheriff star”-type pattern of the Fermi surface, or distribution of electron energy and momentum, for the kagome metal FeSn, a 1-to-1 ratio compound of iron and tin.

MIT researchers realize “ideal” kagome metal electronic structure

December 12, 2019
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Condensed Matter Experiment
A map of gamma ray emissions throughout the Milky Way galaxy, based on observations from the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. The inset depicts the Galactic Center Excess – an unexpected, spherical region of gamma ray emissions at the center of our galaxy, of unknown origin.

Is there dark matter at the center of the Milky Way?

December 10, 2019
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, WiSTEM, High Energy and Particle Theory

Two MIT seniors named 2020 Marshall Scholars

December 9, 2019
Categories: Awards/Honors, Students & Alumni, WiSTEM
MIT students explore the practical application of electromagnetic concepts through 8.02 (Electricity and Magnetism) class experiments.

Schools of Science and Engineering join hands to transform learning

December 6, 2019
Categories: Education, Faculty/Emeritus, Students & Alumni
Researchers install a new quantum squeezing device into one of LIGO’s gravitational wave detectors.

New instrument extends LIGO’s reach

December 5, 2019
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, WiSTEM, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment
Google CEO Sundar Pichai with one of Google's quantum computers

A Reality Check on Quantum Computers

November 29, 2019
Categories: Faculty/Emeritus

Five MIT students named 2020 Rhodes Scholars

November 23, 2019
Categories: Awards/Honors, Students & Alumni, WiSTEM
Black hole in the Phoenix galaxy

Phoenix cluster is cooling faster than expected

November 20, 2019
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment
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