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MIT and Dartmouth College researchers developed a tool that detects new characteristics of non-Gaussian “noise” that can destroy the fragile quantum superposition state of qubits, the fundamental components of quantum computers.

Uncovering the hidden “noise” that can kill qubits

New detection tool could be used to make quantum computers robust against unwanted environmental disturbances.

September 16, 2019

"Whether they select advanced reactors or fusion reactors, utilities, policy, or advocacy, our students could move the industry beyond the 1960s,” says MIT Professor Michael Short. “They could give new meaning and substance to the department’s motto, ‘science, systems and society.’”

Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering spreads its wings

New 22-ENG undergraduate degree provides expansive vision of nuclear studies and nuclear careers.

September 13, 2019

Seychelle Vos (left) and Pulin Li recently joined the Department of Biology as assistant professors.

Understanding genetic circuits and genome organization

Assistant professors Pulin Li and Seychelle Vos are investigating how cells become tissues and the proteins that organize DNA.

September 12, 2019

Using the 3D printing method developed by the MIT researchers, a structure such as this model airplane wing could have both light emitters and light detectors embedded in the material, so that it could continuously detect any micro-cracks as they begin to form.

Engineers develop multimaterial fiber “ink” for 3-D-printed devices

Filaments with embedded circuitry can be used to print complex shapes for biomedical and robotic devices.

September 11, 2019

Sophie Vandebroek has been appointed as the School of Engineering inaugural visiting scholar for the 2019-20 academic year.

School of Engineering welcomes Sophie Vandebroek as first visiting scholar

Primary focus will be to engage engineering students and peers from across the Institute on the school’s outreach and diversity activities.

September 11, 2019

MIT named No. 3 university by US News for 2020

Undergraduate engineering program is No. 1; undergraduate business program is No. 2.

September 9, 2019

The MIT Haystack Observatory houses a specialized supercomputer called a correlator, which crunched data generated by the EHT project.

Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics awarded to Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration for black hole observation

Nearly 30 MIT-affiliated researchers will share in the prize, while David Jay Julius ’77 wins Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences; assistant professor of physics Max Metlitski shares New Horizons prize with Xie Chen PhD ’12 and Michael Levin PhD ’06.

September 6, 2019

Left to right: Postdoc Shu Fen Tan, graduate student Kate Reidy, and Professor Frances Ross, all of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, sit in front of a high vacuum evaporator system.

Creating new opportunities from nanoscale materials

MIT Professor Frances Ross is pioneering new techniques to study materials growth and how structure relates to performance.

September 5, 2019

Building on the legacy of the Apollo program, MIT faculty, staff, and students are working toward the next great advances in space flight — ones that could propel humans back to the moon, and to parts still unknown.

Taking the next giant leaps

Fifty years after the first moon landing with Apollo 11, the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics looks to the future of space exploration at MIT.

September 5, 2019