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Illustration shows pairs of electrons in magic-angle twisted trilayer graphene

MIT physicists observe key evidence of unconventional superconductivity in magic-angle graphene

The findings could open a route to new forms of higher-temperature superconductors.

November 7, 2025
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Graduate Students, Condensed Matter Experiment

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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 12, 2020
Categories: Q&A, Education
Still from The Matrix film

Are We Living in a Simulated World?

January 8, 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 22, 2019
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Students & Alumni, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment

Anoushka Bose: Targeting a career in security studies and diplomacy

December 16, 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 11, 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 9, 2019
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, WiSTEM, High Energy and Particle Theory

Two MIT seniors named 2020 Marshall Scholars

December 8, 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 5, 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 4, 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 28, 2019
Categories: Faculty/Emeritus

Five MIT students named 2020 Rhodes Scholars

November 22, 2019
Categories: Awards/Honors, Students & Alumni, WiSTEM
Black hole in the Phoenix galaxy

Phoenix cluster is cooling faster than expected

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