Edmund Bertschinger appointed as Institute Community and Equity Officer
Physicist has a long track record of leadership on issues of community, equity, inclusion and diversity.
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New MITx online physics course combines latest in learning technology with classic videos
MOOC pairs cutting-edge online assessments with legendary lectures and demonstrations by MIT professor Walter Lewin.
Diving into nuclear policy
Whether he’s in a Navy submarine or in Washington, you’ll find MIT senior Cameron McCord at the intersection of nuclear engineering, policy and service.
Composing and consciousness
Dustin Katzin’s friends say he is an Academy Award just waiting to happen.
Stacking 2-D materials produces surprising results
New experiments reveal previously unseen effects, could lead to new kinds of electronics and optical devices.
Making frequency-hopping radios practical
New hardware could lead to wireless devices that identify and exploit unused transmission frequencies, using radio spectrum much more efficiently.
Five from MIT win Early Career Awards
Alexander-Katz, Detmold, Fu, Tisdale and Williams honored by Office of Science of the Department of Energy.
An MIT physics MOOC five years in the making
Materials for the new MITx summer course Mechanics ReView have been refined during a half-decade of development
Cheaters lessen colony survival under stress in yeast experiment
MIT researchers find that high ratio of freeloaders makes it more likely colony will die from sudden shock to environment.
3Q: Enectali Figueroa-Feliciano on possible hints of dark matter
MIT physicist explains how new results from an underground experiment add intrigue to the hunt for dark matter.
New five-planet system contains two that are in the ‘habitable zone’
Potentially habitable planets are slightly larger than Earth.
Anna Frebel receives NSF CAREER Award
Frebel will work on identifying large numbers of 12 to 13 billion-year-old stars in the galactic halo
Shedding light on the search for dark matter
Physicists and astronaut discuss cosmic ray detector’s findings of possible signs of dark matter.
Early warning signs of population collapse
Spatial measurements of population density could reveal when threatened natural populations are in danger of crashing.
NASA selects MIT-led TESS project for 2017 mission
$200 million project will launch telescopes to perform full-sky search for transiting exoplanets.