A new report in Science, discusses a significant advancement in measuring the mass of neutrinos, elusive subatomic particles that are fundamental to our understanding of the universe. An international team of scientists, including LNS's Joe Formaggio and his group, and collaborators on the Karlsruhe Tritium Neutrino Experiment (KATRIN) at Germany's Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, has established a new upper limit on the neutrino's mass.
The Laboratory for Nuclear Science (LNS) and MIT’s Department of Physics are excited to wish Irwin Pless a very happy 100th birthday, March 11, 2025.
A new report by the American Physical Society and lead by MIT physicist, Washington Taylor, provides an overview of the major experimental CDR approaches and determines their fundamental physical limits. The report focuses on methods that have the biggest potential for removing carbon dioxide, at the scale of gigatons per year, which is the magnitude that would be required to have a climate-stabilizing impact.
The US Department of Energy published that LNS scientist testing the possible doubly magic nature of Tin-100, study the electromagnetic properties of Indium isotopes. Scientists are closing in on a major cornerstone of nuclear physics, Tin-100.”
Physics World has selected two research advances by MIT physicists for its Top 10 Breakthroughs of the Year for 2024, reports Hamish Johnston for Physics World. Graduate student Andrew Denniston, his advisor Prof. Or Hen, and his colleagues were honored for their work “being the first to unify two distinct descriptions of atomic nuclei,” which Johnston describes as a “major step forward in our understanding of nuclear structure and strong interactions.” MIT researchers were also featured for their work demonstrating quantum error correction on an atomic processor with 48 logical qubits, making it “far more likely that quantum computers will become practical problem-solving machines.”
Society for Science today announced that Tracy Slatyer, Ph.D., a theoretical physics professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), has won the $1,000 Jon C. Graff, Ph.D. Prize for Excellence in Science Communication.
The School of Science appointed four Department of Physics faculty to named professorships. The faculty members selected for these positions receive additional support to pursue their research and develop their careers.
