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A laser beam hits a surface, causing a glass-like crack with white particles ejected.

Physicists watch a material’s electrons assemble, and reassemble, into coexisting phases

The study could help scientists understand how superconductivity and other more complex phenomena emerge in quantum materials.

August 7, 2026
Categories: Research, Faculty, Alumni, Condensed Matter Experiment

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MIT dome in Spring

School of Science appoints 14 faculty members to named professorships

Categories: Awards/Honors, Faculty

Drawn to open-ended problems

Categories: Profile, Students, Quantum Information Science

American Physical Society honors three MIT professors for physics research

Categories: Awards/Honors, Faculty
Illustration of cosmic inflation

Putting the “bang” in the Big Bang

Categories: Research, Faculty, High Energy and Particle Theory

This Yearʼs Nobels Have Cosmic Reach

Categories: Faculty
Geometric fractals of snowflake

Scientists discover fractal patterns in a quantum material

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

This is how a “fuzzy” universe may have looked

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

Controlling 2-D magnetism with stacking order

Categories: Research, Faculty, Students, Condensed Matter Experiment
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Computing and the search for new planets

Categories: Research, Faculty, Students, WiSTEM, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment

Four from MIT named American Physical Society Fellows for 2019

Categories: Awards/Honors, Faculty

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

Categories: Interview/Q&A, Faculty, 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

Categories: Awards/Honors, Faculty, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment
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