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bacterial colonies

In the right place, even a less fit species can win

Published study uses mathematical models to describe the expansion of competing populations.

August 3, 2026
Categories: Research, Faculty, Graduate Students, Biophysics

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The Year in Physics

Categories: Research, Faculty, WiSTEM
MIT dome in Spring

Top MIT research stories of 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.

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

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

New type of atomic clock keeps time even more precisely

Categories: Research, Faculty, Atomic Physics

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

Categories: Events, WiSTEM

Physicists Detect the “Spooky Popcorn of the Universe”

Categories: Research, Faculty, WiSTEM, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment

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

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

Categories: Research, Faculty, Condensed Matter Theory

Simulating subatomic physics on a quantum computer

Categories: Research, Postdocs, Quantum Information Science
Primordial gravitational waves

A technique to sift out the universe’s first gravitational waves

Categories: Research, Students, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment

Researchers observe what could be the first hints of dark bosons

Categories: Research, In The News, Faculty, Atomic Physics
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