Physics

Irene Porro demonstrates how to use a 'sunspotter' to safely show the sun and sun spots on it to a group of Somerville schoolchildren in 2001. Porro, education and public outreach scientist at the MIT Kavli Institute, has recently helped secure a grant to develop a youth astronomy apprenticeship program at MIT.

Astronomer develops youth apprenticeship program

November 7, 2006

This micropump developed by MIT researchers allows high speed flows through microchannels with an input of only a few volts of electricity, making it possible to create portable "lab on a chip" devices.
The three-dimensional, alternating current electro-osmotic pump consists of interdigitated stepped gold microelectrodes on a glass substrate.

Portable 'lab on a chip' could speed blood tests

MIT micropump assures portability, efficiency, in routine or combat conditions

October 16, 2006

Nobelists' work supports big-bang theory

Alumnus George Smoot, colleague share 2006 Nobel prize in physics

October 3, 2006

Figure shows the CDF measurement of the Bs oscillation frequency at 2.8 trillion times per second.

Physicists observe subatomic quick-change artist

September 27, 2006

Peter Poulin, left, a former graduate student in the lab of Professor Keith Nelson, right, helps to set up a laser to observe light-induced changes in materials.

MIT laser method unveils ultrafast photochemical reactions

September 27, 2006

MIT researchers recently found that human ubiquitin hydrolase, shown here, has the most complicated knot ever observed in a protein. The simplified diagram, inset, shows the knot in the protein, which crosses itself five times.

Knotty problem puzzles protein researchers

September 20, 2006

MIT researchers have discovered that certain molecules can attach themselves to metallic carbon nanotubes without interfering with the nanotubes' exceptional ability to conduct electricity. At left, the high conductance state has two molecular orbitals, shown in green. Some molecules even let the nanotube switch between highly conductive, left, and poorly conductive (right, with one red molecular ...

MIT materials scientists tame tricky carbon nanotubes

September 15, 2006

MIT physicist shares team award for 'Big Bang' research

September 6, 2006

MIT physics Nobel winner will sing in 'Atomic' love opera

August 24, 2006

Xiwen Zhong, research engineer, dies at 71

August 10, 2006

Physicist Wen receives grant for gravity work

August 2, 2006

Direct observation of the superfluid phase transition in ultracold Fermi gases. The images show the excess atoms (the 'single men') in the gas cloud that are not involved in the superfluid pairing. As the superfluid forms in the center, the excess atoms have to give way and start forming a shell around it.

MIT physicists shed new light on superfluidity

July 20, 2006

A sphere-shaped web of photo-detecting fibers developed by MIT scientists can sense the optical properties of the entire volume of space around it, as well as detect the source of incoming light.

MIT scientists create fiber webs that see

July 6, 2006

Students help construct a prototype in April 2005 of one of the 500 'tiles' that will make up a new telescope in Australia. Each tile consists of 16 antennas. From left are Jamie Stevens, a graduate student at the University of Melbourne, now at University of Tasmania, and Judd Bowman, a graduate student in physics at MIT.

Telescope to probe early universe, more

July 5, 2006

Nanotechnology 'fertile' for energy breakthrough

June 30, 2006

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