In a new study, MIT researchers, including Professor Liang Fu, evaluated quantum materials’ potential for scalable commercial success — and identified promising candidates. #cmt physics.mit.edu/news/why-som...

A new method turns down quantum noise that obscures the “ticking” of atoms, and could enable stable, transportable atomic clocks. #atomicphysics #VladanVuletic physics.mit.edu/news/mit-phy...

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Big news: MIT is joining the Giant Magellan Telescope consortium! This $2.6B observatory in Chile will have 5× the light-gathering power of today’s telescopes, enabling breakthroughs in exoplanets, black holes, and more. #MIT #GMT #Astrophysics

At MIT’s Formaggio Lab, Junior Peña’s work may help researchers pinpoint the elusive particle’s mass—and refine the fundamental laws of physics in the process. physics.mit.edu/news/junior-...

Are Space and Time Created by Quantum Error Correction? Prof Daniel Harlow joins Brian Greene to explore black holes, holography, and the surprising connection between spacetime and algorithms that perform quantum error correction.

MIT Physics Celebrates Professor Irwin Pless’s 100th birthday on March 11, 2025 Pless has made significant contributions to the fields of Experimental Particle Physics, Heavy ion collisions research, and Neutrino Astrophysics.

Congratulations! Professor Netta Engelhardt honored with 2025 DOE Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) www.whitehouse.gov/ostp/news-up...

Longtime MIT faculty member, Hale Van Dorn Bradt PhD '61, passed away on Thursday, November 14, 2024, at Salem Hospital, surrounded by his loving family. He used X-ray astronomy to study neutron stars and black holes and led the All-Sky Monitor instrument on NASA’s Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer. #RIP

"If selected to move forward," explains Erin Kara, associate professor of physics and deputy principal investigator for AXIS, "AXIS will answer some of the biggest mysteries in modern astrophysics."

MIT Physics awardees include Professor Vladan Vuletić, graduate student Jiliang Hu ’19, PhD ’24; as well as 5 alumni. New APS Fellows include Professor Joseph Checkelsky and 4 alumni. Congrats to all!

In 2004, physicists reported something remarkable: they had isolated ultrathin films of carbon atoms using sticky tape alone, and found that the films had astounding properties. The finding would forever change condensed-matter physics.

Riccardo Comin says the best part of his job as a physics professor and exotic materials researcher is when his students come into his office to tell him they have new, interesting data. “That’s what makes it all worthwhile.”

Professor Pablo Jarillo Herrero, a Clarivate Citation Laureate 2024 and distinguished physicist, discusses his groundbreaking research in condensed matter physics.

John Belcher, the Class of 1922 Professor of Physics, who was a member of the original team that designed and built the plasma spectrometers, and John Richardson, principal research scientist at MIT Kavli, who is the experiment’s principal investigator, offered their reflections.

MIT has long been a pioneer of quantum technologies. Now, Quantum@MIT is setting the stage for a new era

Among scientists doing such work, “I don’t think there’s been anybody who’s been more impactful,” says Dan Hooper, a physicist at the University of Chicago. “She’s as big a deal as I can make her out to be.”

“You have these two looming open-ended puzzles,” says study co-author Rohan Naidu, a postdoc in MIT’s Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research. “We find that in fact, early dark energy is a very elegant and sparse solution to two of the most pressing problems in cosmology.”

Sara Seager, among three MIT professors, accepted this year's prestigious Kavli Prize from King Harald V of Norway in Oslo on Sept. 3. Congratulations again to Professor Seager!

By studying ancient, supermassive black holes called quasars, Dominika Ďurovčíková is illuminating an early moment when galaxies could first be observed.

“People need to create spaces for researchers to be able to discuss their scientific work and also be queer,” says Nergis Mavalvala, the Curtis and Kathleen Marble Professor of Astrophysics and dean of the MIT School of Science.

Sara Seager named 2024 Kavli Prize Laureate physics.mit.edu?p=18668

“Even though these short-lived, exotic creatures are not around today, they could have affected cosmic history in ways that could show up in subtle signals today,” says David Kaiser, the Germeshausen Professor of the History of Science and professor of physics at MIT.

“This discovery has direct implications for low-power electronic devices because no energy is lost during the propagation of electrons, which is not the case in regular materials where the electrons are scattered,” says Professor Long Ju, and corresponding author of the Science paper. #cmx

Congratulations to all our February 2024 and May 2024 graduates! Now go out into the world and make us proud!

Senior Olivia Rosenstein balances cross-country competitions with research in quantum gasses and early-universe radio wave signals.

Congratulations Erin!!!

Congratulations to our students, physics junior April Cheng, and graduate students Mason Ng and Silviu-Marian Udrescu, for being chosen to attend the 2024 Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting

Physicist Netta Engelhardt is searching black holes for universal truths She says one question drives her work: “Which pillars of gravitational physics are just not true?”

Prof. Edmund Bertschinger shares his perspective on the importance of science activism and diversity in STEM thetech.com/2024/03/21/b...

Study: Life’s building blocks are surprisingly stable in Venus-like conditions. Results suggest the clouds of Venus could be hospitable for some forms of life. physics.mit.edu/news/study-l...

Envisioning a time when people age without fear of dementia, Senior and physics/computer science double major William Li seeks to work on therapies for the disease. @mitscience.bsky.social physics.mit.edu/news/envisio...

Three MIT alumni, Marcos Berríos ’06, Christina Birch PhD ’15, and Christopher Williams PhD ’12, graduate from NASA astronaut training physics.mit.edu/news/three-m...

Choi, Necib, and Vanderburg named 2024 Sloan Research Fellows physics.mit.edu/news/eight-f...

Electrons become fractions of themselves in graphene, study finds An exotic electronic state observed by MIT physicists could enable more robust forms of quantum computing. physics.mit.edu/news/electro... #cmx #graphene

Congratulations to our alum, Dr. Shirley Ann Jackson '68 , PhD '73, '68, who will be the keynote speaker and receive the Lifetime Achievement Award during MIT's 50th Annual Celebration of the Life and Legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. at the Leadership Awards Reception.

Study: Stars travel more slowly at Milky Way’s edge. The findings suggest our galaxy’s core may contain less dark matter than previously estimated. physics.mit.edu?p=17491 @ScienceMIT #LinaNecib #XiaoweiOu #AnnaChristinaEilers #AnnaFrebel

Congratulations!!! MIT Physics Students Win National Recognition Student-Led Physical Sciences Organization Is Honored with Award from the National Office of the Society of Physics Students as an Outstanding Chapter physics.mit.edu/news/mit-phy...