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In the right place, even a less fit species can win

Published study uses mathematical models to describe the expansion of competing populations.

August 3, 2026
Categories: Research, Faculty, Graduate Students, Biophysics

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Stamp honoring research of Illustris collaboration.

Stamp of approval

Categories: Research, Awards/Honors, Faculty, Astrophysics Theory
Riccardo Comin (left), an assistant professor of physics, and physics graduate student Abraham Levitan in lab.

Better superconductors from ceramic copper oxides

Categories: Research, Faculty, Students, Condensed Matter Experiment
NASA's Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 probes displayed outside of heliosphere.

3 Questions: MIT goes interstellar with Voyager 2

Categories: Interview/Q&A, Faculty, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment
Dianna Cowern '11

More than 30 from MIT named to Forbes 30 Under 30 lists

Categories: Awards/Honors, Students
Creating spin textures in a homogeneous Fermi-Hubbard system.

Atoms stand in for electrons in system for probin high-tempurature superconductors

Categories: Research, Faculty, Students, Atomic Physics
LIGO Livingston detector site

LIGO and Virgo announce four new gravitational-wave detections

Categories: Research, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment
2018 Marshall Scholars

Senior Radha Mastandrea named 2019 Marshall Scholar

Categories: Awards/Honors, Students
Jacqueline Hewitt stands with a prototype of one of the four cameras aboard the Transiting Exoplanet Satellite Survey (TESS) instrument.

Jacqueline Hewitt to step down as director of the MIT Kavli Institute

Categories: Labs & Centers, Faculty, WiSTEM, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment, Astrophysics Theory
Two versions of the device designed by MIT researchers, using a strip of metal to block direct sunlight to confirm that they could provide cooling without power.

A new way to provide cooling without power

Categories: Research, Faculty, Students, Condensed Matter Experiment

Jacqueline Hewitt elected 2018 AAAS Fellow

Categories: Awards/Honors, Faculty, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment
MIT researchers Sanfeng Wu, left, a postdoc at MIT, and Pablo Jarillo-Herrero, the Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Physics in lab.

First two-dimensional material that performs as both topological insulator and superconductor

Categories: Research, Faculty, Students, Pappalardo Fellows, Postdocs, Condensed Matter Experiment
Photo of the four MIT 2018 Department of Energy Computational Science Graduate Fellows

Computational science grad students awarded U.S. Department of Energy fellowships

Categories: Awards/Honors, Students, WiSTEM
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