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The ‘torpedo bat’ is revolutionizing baseball. Is it cheating?

Aaron Leanhardt spent his PhD studying the secrets of outer space. Then he invented something to help the Yankees send baseballs there

April 9, 2025
Categories: In The News, Alumni

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The ‘torpedo bat’ is revolutionizing baseball. Is it cheating?

April 4, 2025
Categories: In The News, Alumni

The science behind Yankees’ torpedo bats explained by its inventor – an MIT physicist

April 1, 2025
Categories: In The News, Alumni, Atomic Physics
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Are Space and Time Created by Quantum Error Correction – Video

March 28, 2025
Categories: Q&A, Faculty/Emeritus, High Energy and Particle Theory, Quantum Gravity and Field Theory
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Physicists Catch a Quantum Butterfly Spreading Its Wings

March 28, 2025
Categories: In The News, Pappalardo Fellows, Condensed Matter Experiment

MIT affiliates, including named 2024 AAAS Fellows

March 27, 2025
Categories: Awards/Honors, Academic Staff, Condensed Matter Experiment

Professor Emeritus Earle Lomon, nuclear theorist, dies at 94

March 26, 2025
Categories: In Remembrance, Faculty/Emeritus, Strong Interactions and Nuclear Theory
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MIT scientists engineer starfish cells to shape-shift in response to light

March 24, 2025
Categories: Research, Profile, Faculty/Emeritus, Graduate Students, WiSTEM, Biophysics

Device enables direct communication among multiple quantum processors

March 21, 2025
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Quantum Information Science

Professor Emeritus Lee Grodzins, pioneer in nuclear physics, dies at 98

March 20, 2025
Categories: In Remembrance, Faculty/Emeritus, Nuclear Physics Experiment

A dive into the “almost magical” potential of photonic crystals

March 17, 2025
Categories: Profile, Faculty/Emeritus, Condensed Matter Theory

QS World University Rankings rates MIT No. 1 in 11 subjects for 2025

March 12, 2025
Categories: In The News, Education
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MIT Physics Celebrates Professor Irwin Pless’s 100th birthday on March 11, 2025

March 10, 2025
Categories: In The News, Faculty/Emeritus, Particle Physics Experiment
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