3 Questions: Lisa Barsotti on the new and improved LIGO
“If we are very lucky, we might observe something new … or maybe even something totally unexpected.”
“If we are very lucky, we might observe something new … or maybe even something totally unexpected.”
In its first run, ABRACADABRA detects no signal of the hypothetical dark matter particle within a specific mass range.
The Heising-Simons Foundation selects Clara Sousa-Silva and Benjamin Rackham for 51 Pegasi b Fellowships at MIT.
Faculty representing all five MIT schools offer views on the ethical and societal implications of new technologies.
MIT researchers find a new way to make nanoscale measurements of fields in more than one dimension.
Jordan Benjamin, a double major in physics and atmospheric science, studies the weather inside and out of the classroom.
Junior Ivy Li, a literature and physics major, adapts a legendary work and innovates in an enduring literary tradition.
Optical effect could be harnessed for light displays, litmus tests, and makeup products.
Institute ranks within the top 2 in 17 of 48 subject areas.
Award will support educational and research efforts in high-energy-density physics at MIT and four academic research partners.
The particle’s core withstands pressures higher than those inside a neutron star, according to a new study.
Nikhil Agarwal, Daniel Harlow, Andrew Lawrie, and Yufei Zhao receive early-career fellowships.
Number of proton-neutron pairs determine how fast the particles move, results suggest.
The prestigious awards are supporting five innovative projects that challenge established norms and have the potential to be world-changing.
MIT researchers use resonant X-ray scattering measurements to reveal unexpected “Wigner glass” in desirable superconducting material.