Physics

Two Scientists named to Discover's 'Top 20 Under 40' list

November 13, 2008

DoE's Dehmer to discuss science's role in energy challenges

November 3, 2008

Robert L. Jaffe, the Otto (1939) and Jane Morningstar Professor of Science in the Department of Physics, teaches the 'Physics of Energy' class recently.

The nitty-gritty of energy

New physics course may be first of its kind nationwide

October 22, 2008

The groundbreaking ceremony for the new computer center at the MIT-Bates Linear Accelerator Center included, from left, Bolek Wyslouch, professor in physics and the Laboratory for Nuclear Science (LNS);
Robert Redwine, professor of physics and director of MIT-Bates; Karen Dow of LNS and associate director of MIT-Bates; Ed Bertschinger, head of the MIT Department of Physics; Brad Black, principal ...

High-power computer cluster to sift through LHC data

October 14, 2008

'To fold a big bang'

October 2, 2008

Left image highlights two platinum-cobalt catalyst nanoparticles (inside the dashed boxes) with a 'sandwich' structure of platinum and cobalt atoms near the surface. At right is a cross-sectional model corresponding to the lower particle, showing platinum atoms enriched in the outermost layer, cobalt enriched in the second, and additional layers containing a mixture of the two. (Image at left take...

Team takes first atomic-scale compositional images of fuel-cell nanoparticles

Work could lead to better catalysts for eco-friendly energy storage devices

October 2, 2008

Examining cargo at the atomic level

Imaging technology could help detect nuclear material inside cargo without opening the doors

September 24, 2008

MIT Professor Tom Peacock in lab where his group performed experiments on a new approach to unsteady flow separation.

MIT solves 100-year-old engineering problem

Insights on fluid flow could impact fuel efficiency, more

September 24, 2008

Two MIT faculty win MacArthur 'genius' grants

Winners each get $500,000 in unrestricted funds

September 23, 2008

Three faculty win '08 NIH Pioneer Awards

September 22, 2008

MIT quantum insights could lead to better detectors

Improved efficiency could enable research, military and medical uses

September 11, 2008

The compact muon solenoid (CMS) experiment at CERN's Large Hadron Collider will look for the Higgs boson, shown here in simulation.

MIT awaits data from world's biggest physics experiment

Underground collider comes to life in Europe

September 10, 2008

Bates researchers eye proton therapy for cancer

September 4, 2008

The colorful patterns formed by the response of superconducting 'artificial atoms' to a new probe called amplitude spectroscopy serve as an identifying fingerprint for a given atom.

MIT probe could aid quantum computing

Spectroscopy, with amplitude

September 3, 2008

From left, graduate student YongKeun Park, School of Engineering Dean Subra Suresh, Professor Michael Feld, and postdocs Monica Diez-Silva, George Lykotrafitis and Wonshik Choi stand in the MIT Spectroscopy Laboratory. The group has used microscopy techniques to show in unprecedented detail how the malaria parasite attacks red blood cells.

MIT zooms in on malaria-infected cells

Work could aid in diagnostics, drug testing

September 1, 2008

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