Physics

Lonsdale to head MIT Haystack Observatory

August 29, 2008

MIT's venerable Millstone Hill Radar antenna is getting an upgrade, which will allow it to continue its work cataloging objects circling Earth and monitoring satellite and spacecraft launches.

Sputnik-era antenna gets 21st century upgrade

August 7, 2008

MIT awarded $3M for training program in quantum information science

Grant to create interdisciplinary study program

August 4, 2008

This scanning tunneling microscope image of a bismuth superconducting compound shows a characteristic checkerboard pattern. The researchers believe this pattern indicates the presence of a charge density wave.

MIT physicists shed light on key superconductivity riddle

July 18, 2008

MIT nanoruler lithography tool with a 300 mm-diameter silicon wafer.

MIT reports finer lines for microchips

Advance could lead to next-generation computer chips, solar cells, more.

July 8, 2008

The scale of the heliosphere and nearby galactic neighborhood. The solar system and its nearby galactic neighborhood are illustrated here on a logarithmic scale extending (from < 1 to) 1 million Astornomical Units (AU).

MIT instrument studies edge of sun's bubble

Spacecraft gives data on space beyond sun's influence

July 7, 2008

On 4 April 2007 a welder begins works on the interconnections of magnets in the last sector of the LHC.

A front-row seat at this summer's physics extravaganza

MIT team taking part in quest to find elusive Higgs boson

July 1, 2008

Physics awards

June 4, 2008

In one of the first significant scientific findings from the effort to detect gravitational waves, the team operating the Laser Interferometer Gravity-wave Observatory (LIGO) has reported that the pulsar at the center of the Crab Nebula must have an extremely smooth surface. Here the Crab Nebula is shown in a composite image taken by the Hubble Space Telescope.

Measuring a pulsar's smoothness

Team finds significant results from major collaboration

June 3, 2008

NASA selects MIT-led team to develop planet-searching satellite

June 3, 2008

New class to focus on 'physics of energy'

May 29, 2008

Hope on the Horizon: Fusion

May 21, 2008

MIT researchers have figured out how the phalarope, a shorebird with a long, narrow beak, transports its food from the tip of its beak to its mouth. Here the bird feeds by pecking at the water surface.

MIT solves gravity-defying bird beak mystery

Shorebirds take advantage of surface tension to capture prey

May 15, 2008

Robert I. Hulsizer Jr., physics professor emeritus, 88

May 8, 2008

Harald A. Enge, retired physics professor, 87

April 30, 2008

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