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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 21, 2025
Categories: Awards/Honors, Faculty/Emeritus, WiSTEM, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment

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MIT Physics Celebrates Professor Irwin Pless’s 100th birthday on March 11, 2025

March 9, 2025
Categories: In The News, Faculty/Emeritus, Particle Physics Experiment
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Scientists Confirm the Incredible Existence of ‘Second Sound’

March 7, 2025
Categories: In The News, Faculty/Emeritus, Atomic Physics
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These New Planets Aren’t Real, But Science Says They Could Be

March 4, 2025
Categories: In The News, Faculty/Emeritus, WiSTEM, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment
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Tushar Shah SB ’93 PhD ’00 flies to space on Blue Origin’s tenth human spaceflight

March 2, 2025
Categories: In The News, Alumni
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MIT physicists find unexpected crystals of electrons in new ultrathin material

February 25, 2025
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Graduate Students, Condensed Matter Experiment
US Army Major Mathew Hefner training in Norway with Fiber computer base layer.

Fiber computer allows apparel to run apps and “understand” the wearer

February 25, 2025
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Condensed Matter Theory

The man who reinvented the hammer

February 24, 2025
Categories: In The News, Alumni

Three from MIT named 2025 Gates Cambridge Scholars

February 23, 2025
Categories: Awards/Honors, Alumni, WiSTEM
A deep space image showing a central bright galaxy surrounded by a hazy purple glow, with numerous smaller galaxies and stars scattered throughout the dark background.

How Black Holes Help Stars Form

February 20, 2025
Categories: Research, Graduate Students, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment
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Focusing student effort where it matters most by improving Canvas course structure

February 20, 2025
Categories: Profile, Education, Academic Staff

Professor Sarah Millholland and four physics alums named 2025 Sloan Research Fellow

February 19, 2025
Categories: Awards/Honors, Faculty/Emeritus, Alumni, Astrophysics Theory, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment
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Wilczek’s Multiverse | Quantum leaps? The good and bad news about the next big thing in computing

February 18, 2025
Categories: In The News, Faculty/Emeritus, Quantum Information Science
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