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The Materials Research Science and Engineering Center unites researchers across disciplines to develop technologies for medical imaging, sustainable metals production, and next-generation electronics.
The mashup of a black hole and an enormous star has never been seen before and could explain the mysterious little red dots often found in deep-space images.
The study could help scientists understand how superconductivity and other more complex phenomena emerge in quantum materials.
A new technique produces wafer-scale samples, overcoming a major roadblock to using these materials in quantum technologies.
Professor Anna-Christina Eilers is “Committed to Caring” for building a culture around attentiveness and community.
The rising senior is passionate about soccer, nuclear fusion, and advocating on behalf of his fellow student-athletes at MIT.
An MIT-led team used bright radio bursts to illuminate a vast source of matter that was previously unaccounted for.
Physicists have found signs of colliding black holes that are themselves products of previous black hole smash-ups.
The professor of physics and inaugural director of the NSF AI Institute for Artificial Intelligence and Fundamental Interactions will lead LNS and continue his research in particle physics.
Wyslouch remains the director of the Bates Research and Engineering Center and will continue research on heavy ion collisions.
What’s more, the superconducting states get stronger under conditions expected to kill them.
“Scientific American” showcases the history and future of America’s scientific engine, highlighting promising young scientists and icons at MIT and beyond.
John Della Costa uses OpenCourseWare to engage fellow Antarctica “winterovers” in physics content, and to build community.
The MIT physicist shares the honor with two others for foundational research establishing the field of twistronics.
IAIFI enters its second phase with increased funding, broader ambitions, and a growing community at the frontier of AI and fundamental physics.
The prestigious fellowship funds graduate studies at Stanford University.
“Extreme, transient conditions produced by nuclear detonations can generate solid-state phases inaccessible to conventional synthesis,” wrote the researchers.
A new method for precisely moving columns of individual atoms within a material could give rise to exotic quantum properties.
Gravitational waves emitted by colliding black holes may bear imprints of dark matter, which physicists could detect with a new model.
A new technique helps scientists measure a phenomenon that can cause quantum circuits to perform differently than expected, increasing the error in computations.
