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Closing in on superconducting semiconductors

PSFC researchers created a superconducting circuit that could one day replace semiconductor components in quantum and high-performance computing systems.

June 19, 2025
Categories: Research, Labs & Centers, Academic Staff, Condensed Matter Experiment

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In neutron stars, protons may do the heavy lifting

August 13, 2018
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Particle Physics Experiment
Photo of Heising-Simons Foundation grant recipients: (l-r) Radha Mastandrea, Carina Belvin, and Shuo Zhang, and Professor Lindley Winslow

Paying it forward: Fellowship boosts women in physics

August 2, 2018
Categories: Awards/Honors, Faculty/Emeritus, Students & Alumni, WiSTEM
Illustration of optical signals.

On-chip optical filter processes wide range of light wavelengths

August 1, 2018
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Condensed Matter Experiment
Illustration depicting a beam of electrons scattering off a beam of protons or atomic nuclei, generating virtual photons.

3Q: Richard Milner on a new U.S. particle accelerator

July 24, 2018
Categories: Q&A, Faculty/Emeritus, Nuclear Physics Experiment

School of Science appoints eight faculty members to named professorships

July 23, 2018
Categories: Awards/Honors, Faculty/Emeritus
In this illustration, a neutrino has interacted with a molecule of ice, producing a secondary particle—a muon.

3Q: Janet Conrad on the first detection of a neutrino’s cosmic source

July 13, 2018
Categories: Q&A, Faculty/Emeritus, Particle Physics Experiment
Numerical simulation of the last instances of a neutron star and black hole merger, as the neutron star is destroyed by the tidal pull of the black hole (at the center of the disk).

Could gravitational waves reveal how fast our universe is expanding?

July 12, 2018
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Astrophysics Theory

Institute Archives spotlights pioneering women at MIT

July 6, 2018
Categories: In The News, Faculty/Emeritus, WiSTEM
The image is an artist’s visualization of a nucleus as studied in numerical simulations, created using DeepArt neural network visualization software.

Project to elucidate the structure of atomic nuclei at the femtoscale

July 6, 2018
Categories: Research, Labs & Centers, Faculty/Emeritus, WiSTEM, Strong Interactions and Nuclear Theory

At 99, Lew Aronin ’40 volunteers for MIT AgeLab

June 28, 2018
Categories: In The News, Students & Alumni
NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope orbits the Sun in concert with the Earth, slowly drifting away from Earth.

Nearly 80 exoplanet candidates identified in record time

June 20, 2018
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment
The IceCube Lab at the South Pole.

New study again proves Einstein right

July 16, 2018
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Students & Alumni, Pappalardo Fellows, Postdocs, WiSTEM, Particle Physics Experiment, Nuclear Physics Experiment
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