Physics

Former CERN public relations director tells physicists how to get their work in the news

March 6, 2002

Talk on publicizing physics work scheduled

February 27, 2002

Artist's impression of the hottest tango in the universe--a torus formed from the debris of a star spins around a rotating black hole. The black hole leads the torus around, feeding it energy which the torus radiates away as unseen gravitational waves. At the same time, jets of energy are released along the black hole's axis of rotation and may later be detected by satellites as gamma-ray bursts.

Black hole/star tangos may explain cosmic explosions

February 27, 2002

First-year physics course being transformed through experiment

December 19, 2001

NSF awards $13.75M to MIT Media Lab to create Center for Bits and Atoms

November 27, 2001

Paul Woskov shows off the Milliwave Viscometer, which won him his fifth R&D 100 award.

MIT instrument monitors molten materials

October 29, 2001

Professor Wolfgang Ketterle unsuccessfully tries to still the applause that greeted him at the MIT news conference about his Nobel Prize. Behind him are (left to right) President Charles M. Vest, Dean of Science Robert Silbey and Professor Marc Kastner, head of the physics department.

Ketterle leads banner Nobel year for MIT

Physicist, colleagues exult over prize

October 17, 2001

MIT physicist shares 2001 Nobel Prize in physics

October 9, 2001

Postdoctoral associates Vittorio Giovannetti (left) and Lorenzo Maccone (right) published work in Nature with Professor Seth Lloyd about a quantum positioning system that could replace the global positioning systems in the future. The two researchers stand next to a parabolic antenna on the roof of Building 26.

'Quantum weirdness' could lead to more accurate GPS in future

August 29, 2001

'Quantum weirdness' may lead to more accurate global positioning system, MIT researchers say

August 22, 2001

Bates development could boost radar performance

July 18, 2001

Physics honors students with awards

June 6, 2001

Bates Linear Accelerator plans open house

May 2, 2001

Nobelist and former MIT provost discusses curiosities of astrophysics

April 25, 2001

Wilczek to give talk on fundamental rules of physics