Astronomy and Space
Four from MIT named American Physical Society Fellows for 2019
Four members of the MIT community have been elected fellows of the American Physical Society (APS)...
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For first time, astronomers catch asteroid in the act of changing color
August 29, 2019Last December, scientists discovered an “active” asteroid within the asteroid belt, sandwiched between the orbits of...
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A major expansion for the Green Building
August 21, 2019Rising nearly 300 feet from the ground, the Cecil and Ida Green Building, aka Building 54,...
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A battery-free sensor for underwater exploration
August 19, 2019To investigate the vastly unexplored oceans covering most our planet, researchers aim to build a submerged...
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Physicists design an experiment to pin down the origin of the elements
August 19, 2019Nearly all of the oxygen in our universe is forged in the bellies of massive stars...
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Rocky, Earth-sized exoplanet is missing an atmosphere
August 18, 2019Astronomers at MIT, Harvard University, and elsewhere have searched a rocky, Earth-sized exoplanet for signs of...
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John Ball, longtime Haystack Observatory scientist, dies at 83
August 14, 2019Former MIT Haystack Observatory scientist John Allen Ball died Aug. 6 at age 83, of complications...
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Astrophysical shock phenomena reproduced in the laboratory
August 6, 2019Vast interstellar events where clouds of charged matter hurtle into each other and spew out high-energy...
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