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Terahertz microscope reveals the motion of superconducting electrons

For the first time, the new scope allowed physicists to observe terahertz “jiggles” in a superconducting fluid.

February 6, 2026
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Graduate Students, Postdocs, Condensed Matter Experiment

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Illustration of alien with screwdriver

Looking for Signs of Alien Technology

February 12, 2020
Categories: Faculty/Emeritus

Analyce Hernandez: Uncloaking big mysteries

February 11, 2020
Categories: Profile, Students & Alumni

Aron Bernstein, professor emeritus of physics, dies at 88

February 2, 2020
Categories: In Remembrance, Faculty/Emeritus

Communicating respect for graduate students

January 26, 2020
Categories: Awards/Honors, Education, Faculty/Emeritus

Study uses physics to explain democratic elections

January 20, 2020
Categories: Students & Alumni

Pablo Jarillo-Herrero wins Wolf Prize for groundbreaking work on twistronics

January 15, 2020
Categories: Awards/Honors, Faculty/Emeritus, Condensed Matter Experiment
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
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