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Astronomers discover a planet that’s rapidly disintegrating, producing a comet-like tail

The small and rocky lava world sheds an amount of material equivalent to the mass of Mount Everest every 30.5 hours.

April 24, 2025
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment

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Astronomers discover a planet that’s rapidly disintegrating, producing a comet-like tail

April 22, 2025
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment
Mohamed Abdelhafez poses with two awards

Physics lecturer Mohamed Abdelhafez to leave MIT at end of the 2024-2025 school year

April 17, 2025
Categories: Profile, In The News, Education, Academic Staff
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Enhancing the future of teaching and learning at MIT

April 17, 2025
Categories: In The News, Education, Academic Staff
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Benjamin Lehmann wins 2025 Infinite Expansion Award

April 17, 2025
Categories: Awards/Honors, Pappalardo Fellows, High Energy and Particle Theory
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Peter Dourmashkin and Leah Kahn Receive 2025 School of Science Infinite Mile Awards

April 17, 2025
Categories: Awards/Honors, Academic Staff, Admin Staff
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Ting Receives 2025 Basic Science Lifetime Award

April 16, 2025
Categories: In The News, Faculty/Emeritus, Particle Physics Experiment
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‘Quantum computing is at an inflection point’

April 16, 2025
Categories: In The News, Alumni, WiSTEM, Quantum Information Science
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Rookie NASA astronaut Chris Williams PhD ’12 will launch to the ISS on a Russian rocket later this year

April 10, 2025
Categories: In The News, Alumni, URM STEM, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment
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From Chess Champion to Quantum Innovator, Physicist, Dr. Bei Zeng PhD ’09, is on Top of Her Game

April 2, 2025
Categories: In The News, Alumni, WiSTEM, Quantum Information Science
Time-lapsed pictures of a starfish oocyte with light-induced pinching on one end of the cell.

Round Cells Square Up with an Optogenetic Switch

April 14, 2025
Categories: In The News, Faculty/Emeritus, WiSTEM, Biophysics
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Wilczek’s Multiverse | Opsin your eyes! Quantum sensors are the colour vision magicians inside our heads

April 14, 2025
Categories: In The News, Faculty/Emeritus, High Energy and Particle Theory, Strong Interactions and Nuclear Theory
Illustration of accretion disc around black hole.

Astronomers Catch Supermassive Black Hole Waking Up

April 11, 2025
Categories: In The News, Faculty/Emeritus, Graduate Students, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment
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