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

Grodzins performed groundbreaking studies of the weak interaction, led in detection technology, and co-founded the Union of Concerned Scientists.

March 26, 2025
Categories: In Remembrance, Faculty/Emeritus, Nuclear Physics Experiment

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Professor Emeritus Earle Lomon, nuclear theorist, dies at 94

March 26, 2025
Categories: In Remembrance, Faculty/Emeritus, Strong Interactions and Nuclear Theory
Nikta Fakhri in the lab, with petri dishes in foreground.

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
A wavey array of pink spheres floats like on water. A wavey orange arrow points to the right, and a wavey purple arrow points to the left.

Scientists Confirm the Incredible Existence of ‘Second Sound’

March 8, 2025
Categories: In The News, Faculty/Emeritus, Atomic Physics
The mountainous landscape of an imaginary planet with pink clouds hovering above

These New Planets Aren’t Real, But Science Says They Could Be

March 5, 2025
Categories: In The News, Faculty/Emeritus, WiSTEM, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment
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Tushar Shah SB ’93 PhD ’00 flies to space on Blue Origin’s tenth human spaceflight

March 3, 2025
Categories: In The News, Alumni
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MIT physicists find unexpected crystals of electrons in new ultrathin material

February 26, 2025
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Graduate Students, Condensed Matter Experiment
US Army Major Mathew Hefner training in Norway with Fiber computer base layer.

Fiber computer allows apparel to run apps and “understand” the wearer

February 26, 2025
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Condensed Matter Theory
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