Phiala Shanahan is seeking fundamental answers about our physical world
With supercomputers and machine learning, the physicist aims to illuminate the structure of everyday particles and uncover signs of dark matter.
With supercomputers and machine learning, the physicist aims to illuminate the structure of everyday particles and uncover signs of dark matter.
Annual award honors early-career researchers for creativity, innovation, and research accomplishments.
A new technique helps verify the accuracy of experiments that probe the strange behavior of atomic-scale systems.
Researchers at the Center for Theoretical Physics lead work on testing quantum gravity on a quantum processor.
Professors Arup Chakraborty, Lina Necib, and Ronald Fernando Garcia Ruiz as well as Yuan Cao SM ’16, PhD ’20; Alina Kononov ’14; Elliott H. Lieb ’53; Haocun Yu PhD ’20; and others honored for contributions to physics.
APS honors Anna Frebel, Liang Fu, Nuh Gedik, Or Hen, Nuno Loureiro, Fredrick Seguin, and Jesse Thaler for research, applications, teaching, and leadership.
Martin Luther King Jr. Visiting Professors and Scholars will enhance and enrich the MIT community through engagement with students and faculty.
New results from researchers at MIT reveal an unexpected feature of atomic nuclei when a “magic” number of neutrons is reached.
Magdelena Allen is developing a highly sensitive brain PET scanner that can help answer fundamental questions in neuroscience and particle physics.
The MIT physicist and author is recognized for his examination into the fundamental laws of nature.
Professor led MIT department for eight years, playing pivotal leadership roles at the Institute and in physics research and community-building.
The excitement of making discoveries on the global stage is “so much bigger than the pressure,” says the particle physicist.
Researchers with the KATRIN experiment determine that neutrinos are lighter than 0.8 eV/c2.
Eight postdocs and research scientists within the School of Science honored for contributions to the Institute.
The findings could redefine the kinds of particles that were abundant in the early universe.