MIT Physics News Spotlight

Previous Spotlighted MIT Physics News Stories

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

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

20120329 -- Two from MIT named Goldwater Scholars

20120327 -- Georgia Karagiorgi Ph.D. '10 wins 2012 APS Mitsuyoshi Tanaka Dissertation Award in Experimental Particle Physics

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

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

20120119 -- Astronomers find a dark matter galaxy far, far away

20120118 -- Watching a gas turn superfluid

20120112 -- Obama honors Mildred Dresselhaus with Fermi Award

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

20111128 -- How Do Eminent Physicists Tackle the Higgs Boson? With Chocolate

20111121 -- Seeing cancer in three dimensions

20111007 -- Graphene shows unusual thermoelectric response to light

20111004 -- Adam Riess ’92 wins Nobel Prize for physics

20110330 -- Hail and Farewell, Grand Colliders

20110923 -- Swiss Scientists Challenge Einstein's Law of Relativity

20110923 -- 3 Questions: Faster than light?

20110909 -- Quantum computing with light

20110816 -- Discover Science Interview with Sara Seager

20110727 -- Walter Lewin is 'hands on' helping students grasp physics

20110719 -- Stellar eclipse gives glimpse of exoplanet

20110707 -- Making electricity with photovoltaics

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

20110518 -- A labor of love

20110513 -- Toward faster transistors

20110511 -- Evolution, reversed

20110504 -- MIT senior wins prestigious Marshall Scholarship --

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

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

20110210 -- Chris Boyce wins Gates scholarship

20110127 -- Explained: Transiting exoplanets