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.
From Broadway to MIT’s Laboratory for Nuclear Science, PhD student Jessica Fry doesn’t do anything halfway. Now she’s hunting for the universe’s most elusive particle.
The study could help scientists understand how superconductivity and other more complex phenomena emerge in quantum materials.
Professor Anna-Christina Eilers is “Committed to Caring” for building a culture around attentiveness and community.
Initial research projects advance national priorities across natural resources, manufacturing, nuclear physics, and more.
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.
As sea levels rise and saltwater seeps into freshwater, stressed aquatic populations may retain overall growth even as diversity declines, MIT scientists find.
Assistant Professor Eluned Smith describes how new LHC data confirm a previously observed tension with the Standard Model, plus what else will be needed to determine whether new physics is at play.
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.
By analyzing X-ray reverberations and other astrophysical data, Erin Kara seeks to understand the most extreme objects in the universe.