Topic
Physics
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Approaching the magnetic singularity
MIT researchers discover a material that changes electrical resistance only when a magnetic field is applied at a narrowly confined angle.
June 20, 2019 -
3Q: Julien de Wit on searching for red worlds in the northern skies
MIT has completed the installation of its newest exoplanet-hunting telescope, Artemis, in the Canary Islands, joining the SPECULOOS network.
June 20, 2019 -
QS ranks MIT the world’s No. 1 university for 2019-20
Ranked at the top for the eighth straight year, the Institute also places first in 11 of 48 disciplines.
June 18, 2019 -
Researchers solve mystery of how gas bubbles form in liquid
Findings show how to make confined bubbles develop uniformly, instead of in their usual scattershot way.
June 17, 2019 -
A droplet walks into an electric field …
Researchers have found a simple formula that could be useful for air purification, space propulsion, and molecular analyses.
June 17, 2019 -
Materials Research Laboratory welcomes area teachers, community college students
Three teachers and five community college students will work in MIT faculty-led research groups this summer.
June 14, 2019 -
Experiments reveal the physics of evaporation
Changes in pressure, more so than temperature, strongly influence how quickly liquids turn to gas, researchers show.
June 10, 2019 -
Chip design drastically reduces energy needed to compute with light
Simulations suggest photonic chip could run optical neural networks 10 million times more efficiently than its electrical counterparts.
June 5, 2019 -
CSAIL hosts first-ever TEDxMIT
Speakers — all women — discuss everything from gravitational waves to robot nurses.
May 31, 2019 -
Ultra-Quantum Matter research gets $8 million boost
MIT’s Senthil Todadri and Xiao-Gang Wen will study highly entangled quantum matter in a collaboration supported by the Simons Foundation.
May 29, 2019 -
3Q: Yet-Ming Chiang on reopening the case of cold fusion
The materials science and engineering professor is part of a multi-institution effort to investigate the possibility of cold fusion in a scientifically rigorous way.
May 27, 2019 -
For one graduate student, MIT's nuclear reactor is like a "second home"
On the cusp of graduation, health sciences and technology doctoral candidate Agata Wiśniowska '11 sustains her decade-plus connection to the MIT Nuclear Reactor Lab.
May 23, 2019 -
MIT team places second in 2019 NASA BIG Idea Challenge
Multilevel Mars greenhouse could provide food to sustain astronauts for several years.
May 20, 2019 -
Steering fusion’s “D-turn”
Research scientist Alessandro Marinoni shows that reversing traditional plasma shaping provides greater stability for fusion reactions.
May 17, 2019 -
Twelve MIT students accept 2019 Fulbright Fellowships
Grantees will spend the 2019-2020 academic year pursuing research and teaching opportunities abroad.
May 16, 2019 -
The kilo is dead. Long live the kilo!
An old artifact kept in a vault outside Paris is no longer the standard for the kilogram. Now, nature itself provides the definition.
May 16, 2019 -
Leaving room for a little improvisation
At the piano and in the lab, double major Tony Zhang is driven by curiosity and creativity.
May 14, 2019 -
How a declining environment affects populations
Study finds that competition between bacterial species can be upended when conditions deteriorate.
May 13, 2019 -
Ashwin Sah, Megan Yamoah, and Steven Truong named 2019-20 Goldwater Scholars
Three MIT undergraduates honored for their academic achievements.
May 10, 2019 -
Martin Zwierlein receives Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellowship
Professor of physics will use U.S. Department of Defense fellowship to study the quantum world in search of new states of matter.
May 9, 2019