

Physics
Mark Vogelsberger wins 2020 Buchalter Cosmology Prize for simulating a “fuzzy” universe
Mark Vogelsberger, an associate professor of physics at MIT, has received the 2020 Buchalter Cosmology Prize...
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Ten “keys to reality” from Nobel laureate Frank Wilczek
January 11, 2021In the spring of 1970, colleges across the country erupted with student protests in response to...
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RNA molecules are masters of their own destiny
January 4, 2021At any given moment in the human body, in about 30 trillion cells, DNA is being...
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Evelyn Hu delivers 2020 Dresselhaus Lecture on leveraging defects at the nanoscale
December 14, 2020Making a perfect material less perfect Inspired by Dresselhaus’s work in the early 1990s to rethink...
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Pulling the secrets of dark matter out of a hat
December 1, 2020On the first floor of MIT’s Laboratory for Nuclear Science hangs an instrument called “A Broadband/Resonant...
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An escape route for seafloor methane
November 29, 2020Methane, the main component of natural gas, is the cleanest-burning of all the fossil fuels, but...
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Two MIT students named 2021 Rhodes Scholars
November 21, 2020Ghadah Alshalan and Danielle Grey-Stewart have been selected for the 2021 cohort of the prestigious Rhodes...
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Phiala Shanahan receives Kenneth G. Wilson Award for work in lattice field theory
November 17, 2020Class of 1957 Career Development Assistant Professor of Physics Phiala Shanahan will receive the 2020 Kenneth...