A nanophotonic comeback for incandescent bulbs?
Researchers combine the warm look of traditional light bulbs with 21st-century energy efficiency.
Most distant massive galaxy cluster identified
Formed in the first 4 billion years of the universe, cluster is 1,000 times more massive than the Milky Way.
25 from MIT named to Forbes 30 Under 30 lists in 2016
Students, researchers, and alumni honored in the 2016 Forbes 30 Under 30 lists showcasing America’s most important young entrepreneurs, thinkers, and leaders.
Study reveals shared behavior of microbes and electrons
Bacteria streaming through a lattice behave like electrons in a magnetic material.
Clearing the way for Floquet-Bloch states
Team demonstrates pure quantum-mechanical mixture of electrons and photons in the solid topological insulator bismuth selenide.
Computer model matches humans at predicting how objects move
“3-D physics engine” from the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory simulates the human brain to infer physical properties.
Pappalardo Fellow Or Hen wins Israel Physical Society graduate research prize
First time prize is awarded in experimental nuclear physics.
Study assesses solar photovoltaic technologies
MIT researchers recommend rapidly scaling up current silicon-based systems while continuing to work on other technologies.
A new fusion collaboration for MIT
Members of the MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center celebrate first operations of the world's largest fusion experiment, Wendelstein 7-X.
Riding an electronic wave
Graduate student Fahad Mahmood and colleagues show presence of charge-density waves in superconductive material.
3 Questions: Anna Frebel on searching for the oldest stars
New book details astronomers’ hunt for clues to the early universe.
Exploring valleytronics
MIT graduate student Edbert Jarvis Sie shows promise of new valleytronics by optical tuning of electronic valleys in tungsten disulfide.
Sharing fusion research with 3-D, video games, and comics
Members of MIT's Plasma Science and Fusion Center wow colleagues, students, and teachers with a 3-D tour of the Institute's nuclear fusion experiment.
![“I hope to embody the [Buddhist] values of compassion, mindfulness, and understanding in everything I do,” says Võ Tiến Phong, MIT’s newest Marshall Scholar.](/sites/default/files/styles/term_page__news_article/public/images/201511/MIT-Phong-Vo-01.jpg?itok=UYxewxs1)
New Marshall Scholar
MIT senior Võ Tiến Phong will study theoretical physics at Cambridge University.
Earth not due for a geomagnetic flip in the near future
Researchers find geomagnetic field intensity is double the long-term historical average.