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Erin Kara and John Marshall receive postdoctoral mentoring award

Faculty recognized for the exceptional professional and personal guidance they provide postdocs.

November 17, 2025
Categories: Awards/Honors, Faculty/Emeritus, WiSTEM, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment

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Geometric fractals of snowflake

Scientists discover fractal patterns in a quantum material

October 15, 2019
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Condensed Matter Experiment
A simulation of early galaxy formation under three dark matter scenarios.

This is how a “fuzzy” universe may have looked

October 2, 2019
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Astrophysics Theory
MIT physics graduate student Dahlia Klein (left) and postdoc David MacNeill pose in lab

Controlling 2-D magnetism with stacking order

September 29, 2019
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Students & Alumni, Condensed Matter Experiment
Illustration of a

Computing and the search for new planets

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

Four from MIT named American Physical Society Fellows for 2019

September 19, 2019
Categories: Awards/Honors, Faculty/Emeritus

3Q: Scientists shave estimate of neutrino’s mass in half

September 15, 2019
Categories: Q&A, Faculty/Emeritus, Nuclear Physics Experiment, Particle Physics Experiment
The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) is inspected before its launch in April 2018.

TESS team is awarded NASA’s Silver Achievement Medal

September 11, 2019
Categories: Awards/Honors, Faculty/Emeritus, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment

Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics awarded to Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration for black hole observation

September 5, 2019
Categories: Awards/Honors, Faculty/Emeritus, Condensed Matter Theory, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment
Images showing interference patterns (top) and a Wilson loop (bottom)

Exotic physics phenomenon is observed for first time

September 4, 2019
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Condensed Matter Theory, Condensed Matter Experiment

Big Data Doesn’t Interpret Itself

September 4, 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 19, 2019
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment

Boosting computing power for the future of particle physics

August 18, 2019
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Particle Physics Experiment
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