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Figure shows a beam of red light with two atom icons in it, going through a hole. A screen depicts bending red light.

Famous double-slit experiment holds up when stripped to its quantum essentials

MIT physicists confirm that, like Superman, light has two identities that are impossible to see at once.

July 28, 2025
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Graduate Students, Atomic Physics

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Big Data Doesn’t Interpret Itself

September 5, 2019
Categories: Faculty/Emeritus
Image of the cluster Westerlund 2, an obscured compact young star cluster in the Milky Way, and its surroundings.

Physicists design an experiment to pin down the origin of the elements

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

Boosting computing power for the future of particle physics

August 19, 2019
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Particle Physics Experiment
Artist’s rendering of the surface of LHS 3844b, a planet that has been found to have no atmosphere.

Rocky, Earth-sized exoplanet is missing an atmosphere

August 19, 2019
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, WiSTEM, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment

Data-mining for dark matter

August 15, 2019
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, High Energy and Particle Theory

Julian Picard: Chopping microwaves, sharpening instincts

August 12, 2019
Categories: Profile, Students & Alumni, Particle Physics Experiment
Liquid crystal textures

Finding the Magic in Liquid Crystals

August 8, 2019
Categories: Faculty/Emeritus

Daniel Freedman wins Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics

August 6, 2019
Categories: Awards/Honors, Faculty/Emeritus, Quantum Gravity and Field Theory
Crystal of bismuth has a staircase-like appearance because of the repeating honeycomb-like structure of its atoms.

New insights into bismuth’s character

August 6, 2019
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Condensed Matter Experiment, Condensed Matter Theory
Illustration of related particle collisions

Seeking new physics, scientists borrow from social networks

July 25, 2019
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Students & Alumni, High Energy and Particle Theory, Strong Interactions and Nuclear Theory
MIT dome in Spring

New faces in the School of Science faculty

July 23, 2019
Categories: Faculty/Emeritus, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment, Quantum Gravity and Field Theory
MIT dome in Spring

Meet the 2019 tenured professors in the School of Science

July 10, 2019
Categories: Awards/Honors, Faculty/Emeritus, Strong Interactions and Nuclear Theory, High Energy and Particle Theory
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