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MIT Physics News Spotlight
Previous Spotlighted MIT Physics News Stories
March 2013
20130322 -- Science Seat: Another Earth called a certainty
20130321 -- Study offers new way to discover HIV vaccine targets
20130320 -- Searching for solar systems like our own
20130319 -- Physics at MIT to be spotlighted at March APS Meeting
20130314 -- Predicted state of atomic collapse seen for first time
20130307 -- Two earn School of Science teaching awards
20130304 -- MIT’s Ernest J. Moniz nominated Secretary of Energy
20130301 -- Temkin named IEEE Plasma Science and Applications Award winner
February 2013
20130228 -- Allen Family Foundation grants Gore $1.5 million for research
20130224 -- A new look at high-temperature superconductors
20130219 -- Six MIT researchers win Sloan Research Fellowships
20130219 -- Condensed-matter physics: Hidden is more
20130213 -- Exotic Supernovas In Our Own Galactic Backyard
20130213 -- NASA's Chandra Suggests Rare Explosion Created Our Galaxy's Youngest Black Hole
20130206 -- ‘Invisible’ particles could enhance thermoelectric devices
20130204 -- Some cancer mutations slow tumor growth
January 2013
20130131 -- Duflo, Lander, Lewin to lead spring-semester MITx courses
20130128 -- A physicist and her neutrinos
20130123 -- Storing data in individual molecules
20130122 -- Whether you like it or not, Walter Lewin is going to make you love physics
20130114 -- So Many Exoplanets... So Few Women Scientists
December 2012
20121220 -- Historian/physicist David Kaiser wins Physics World’s 'Book of the Year Award'
20121219 -- MIT researchers discover a new kind of magnetism
20121214 -- Physics World reveals its top 10 breakthroughs for 2012
20121205 -- When the first stars blinked on
20121205 -- MIT physics receives 2012 aps award for improving undergraduate physics education
20121203 -- Five from MIT Named AAAS Fellows
November 2012
20121127 -- Lead-Proton Collisions Yield Suprising Results
20121121 -- Lab Astrophysics Aims for the Stars
20121113 -- It Pays to Cooperate
20121109 -- Ducking Google in Search Engines
20121106 -- A Burst of Activity in the Middle of the Milky Way
October 2012
20121030 -- Theorists Bridge Space-Time Rips
20121017 -- Could We One Day Send Humans to the Newly Discovered Planet Orbiting Alpha Centauri B?
20121015 -- Teppei Katori Wins American Physical Society's 2013 Henry Primakoff Award for Early-Career Particle Physics
20121009 -- Physics Department Head Honored for Diversity Efforts
20121009 -- Nuclear Physicist Peter T. Demos Dies at 94
September 2012
20120920 -- Bacteria Replicate Close to the Physical Limit of Efficiency
20120918 -- Watching Electrons Move at High Speed
20120913 -- Four from MIT win NIH grants
August 2012
20120830 -- A one-way street for spinning atoms
20120820 -- Patterning defect-free nanocrystal films with nanometer resolution
20120815 -- Most massive and luminous galaxy cluster identified
20120806 -- After Particle Search, Some Wallets May Lose Mass
20120803 -- Riding herd on photons
July 2012
20120731 -- Alan Guth wins $3 million Fundamental Physics Prize
20120725 -- A far-off solar system
20120725 -- Single-photon transmitter could enable new quantum devices
20120723 -- Five MIT researchers win presidential early career honors
20120704 -- 3 Questions: Physicist Christoph Paus discusses newly discovered particle
20120703 -- Physicists ready data on ‘God particle’ to explain everything
20120702 -- Carbon Catalyst for Half a Century
June 2012
20120622 -- MIT fusion science students advocate for fusion funding with Congress
20120619 -- MIT receives four Capital One Academic All-America Track & Field/Cross Country Awards
20120606 -- After a Golden Age
20120601 -- Just Herself
20120601 -- From yeast, researchers learn how populations collapse
May 2012
20120531 -- Dresselhaus, Graybiel, Luu receive 2012 Kavli Prizes
20120522 -- Elegant Wiggles: Why the Universe Is Lumpy
20120521 -- George Koster, physics professor emeritus, at 85
20120518 -- Newfound exoplanet may turn to dust
20120514 -- A physicist and an inventor
20120509 -- Dresselhaus receives Fermi Award
April 2012
20120418 -- Sara Seager named co-winner of the 2012 Sackler Prize
20120417 -- Four from MIT win prestigious Guggenheim fellowships
20120405 -- MIT professor explores planets for signs of life
20120404 -- Professor Walter Lewin Featured in "The Best 300 Professors"
20120402 -- Two MIT juniors named Truman Scholars
March 2012
20120329 -- Two from MIT named Goldwater Scholars
20120316 -- Four professors named 2012 MacVicar Fellows
20120313 -- X-ray monitoring mission comes to an end
20120312 -- ‘Mind Reading’: Are You Just the Sum of Your Brain’s Connections?
20120310 -- Automatic Recharging, From a Distance
20120306 -- For the Love of Physics (Book Review by bill gates)
20120305 -- Louis S. Osborne PhD ’50, longtime MIT physicist, dies at 88
20120302 -- A model burster
20120301 -- Erin McGrath wins 2012 MIT Excellence Award
February 2012
20120227 -- Mysterious electron acceleration explained
20120217 -- Rare Earth element found far, far away
20120216 -- Physicists Predict The Existence of Time Crystals
20120216 -- Three MIT researchers win Sloan Research Fellowships
20120216 -- Ashoori awarded $1.7 million grant by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
20120203 -- Turning heat into power
January 2012
20120119 -- Astronomers find a dark matter galaxy far, far away
20120118 -- Watching a gas turn superfluid
20120112 -- Obama honors Mildred Dresselhaus with Fermi Award
December 2011
20111221 -- Two new Earth-sized exoplanets discovered
20111219 -- England Named To Forbes 30 Under 30 Rising Stars of Science
20111215 -- Maybe Higgs: What the LHC Might or Might Not Have Seen
20111206 -- The Man Who Put the “Big” in “Big Bang”: Alan Guth on Inflation
20111205 -- Electronics takes on a new spin
20111202 -- Two MIT Ph.D. Graduates Win 2011 Hertz Foundation Thesis Prizes
November 2011
20111128 -- How Do Eminent Physicists Tackle the Higgs Boson? With Chocolate
20111121 -- Seeing cancer in three dimensions
October 2011
20111007 -- Graphene shows unusual thermoelectric response to light
20111004 -- Adam Riess ’92 wins Nobel Prize for physics
20110330 -- Hail and Farewell, Grand Colliders
September 2011
20110923 -- Swiss Scientists Challenge Einstein's Law of Relativity
20110923 -- 3 Questions: Faster than light?
20110909 -- Quantum computing with light
August 2011
20110816 -- Discover Science Interview with Sara Seager
July 2011
20110727 -- Walter Lewin is 'hands on' helping students grasp physics
20110719 -- Stellar eclipse gives glimpse of exoplanet
20110707 -- Making electricity with photovoltaics
June 2011
20110627 -- Hippie days
20110627 -- Three from MIT, one a recent physics graduate, named Fulbright scholars
20110614 -- Two from MIT named 2011 Pew Scholars in the Biomedical Sciences
20110610 -- Five from MIT receive DoE early career research grants
May 2011
20110518 -- A labor of love
20110513 -- Toward faster transistors
20110511 -- Evolution, reversed
20110504 -- MIT senior wins prestigious Marshall Scholarship
April 2011
20110420 -- 3 Questions: Why Richard Feynman’s lectures still mesmerize
20110414 -- The bouncing gas
20110412 -- Mahajan SB ’11 named Gates Cambridge Scholar
20110401 -- A celebration of women in science and engineering
March 2011
20110329 -- A new spin on superconductivity?
20110311 -- MIT Professor Lewin named award recipient by the OCW Consortium
20110305 -- EAPS, physics professor James Elliot dies at 67
February 2011
20110210 -- Chris Boyce wins Gates scholarship
20110127 -- Explained: Transiting exoplanets
