Physics

Postdocs Peter Rakich, left, and Milos Popovic of MIT's Research Laboratory of Electronics stand in front of a monitor that shows a demonstration of the way they propose to control microchips with light.

MIT works toward 'smart' optical microchips

Light-powered micro-machines could advance telecommunications

November 1, 2007

Dresselhaus wins prize from American Physical Society

October 25, 2007

Dazzling colors reflect from Sol LeWitt's 'Bars of Color Within Squares (MIT), 2006' onto both the new Building 6C and Building 8, as seen from Building 4.

Green Center for Physics dedication set for Oct. 5

Event also celebrates completion of PDSI building project

October 3, 2007

Eric Hudson and colleagues are trying to understand the secrets of high-temperature superconductivity by tracking individual atoms.

Physics professor probes superconductivity

October 3, 2007

In this artist depiction of the SWIFT J1756.9-2508 system, the foreground object is the planet-mass object. The pulsar, located at the upper right, is tidally distorting the companion into a teardrop-shaped object, and ripping gas from it. This material flows in a stream toward the pulsar and forms a disk around it. Eventually, enough gas builds up in the disk to produce an outburst bright enough ...

Stars caught in bizarre death-dance

September 13, 2007

From left: Kamran Badizadegan, principal research scientist; Wonshik Choi, postdoc; and Michael Feld, physics professor and director of the MIT Spectroscopy Lab. The three have found a way to create 3D images of the inner workings of cells, as illustrated on monitor in front of them.

MIT creates 3D images of living cell

August 12, 2007

MIT lecturers top the iTunes U top ten

July 25, 2007

Professor Ray Ashoori, left, and post-doc Oliver Dial have developed a new spectroscopy method that has about 1,000 times finer resolution than other methods. They are shown above in the lab with a dilution refrigerator that they are customizing to continue the work - this refrigerator will allow them to go colder with their experiments, which would allow even better resolution.

MIT physicists get ultra-sharp glimpse of electrons

July 20, 2007

MIT biology, physics and nuclear science professors honored

July 3, 2007

Edmund Bertschinger named head of MIT physics

June 22, 2007

Wireless power transfer over two-meter distance, from the coil on the left to the coil on the right, where it powers a 60W light bulb. Members of the team that performed the experiment are obstructing the direct line of sight between the coils; front row: Peter Fisher (left) and Robert Moffatt; second row: Marin Soljacic; third row: Andre Kurs (left), John Joannopoulos and Aristeidis Karalis.

Goodbye wires!

MIT team experimentally demonstrates wireless power transfer, potentially useful for powering laptops, cell phones without cords

June 7, 2007

Physics awards

June 6, 2007

MIT postdoc Jocelyn Monroe captivated her audience during her April 11 talk announcing the results of an experiment that could have changed some of the basic elements of particle physics.

Experiment confirms famous physics model

April 18, 2007

Five from MIT are Guggenheim Fellows

April 11, 2007

Superhero comics offer super physics lessons