“Near-misses” in particle accelerators can illuminate new physics, study finds | MIT News
Particle accelerators reveal the heart of nuclear matter by smashing together atoms at close to the speed of…
New catalog more than doubles the number of gravitational-wave detections made by LIGO, Virgo, and KAGRA observatories | MIT News
When the densest objects in the universe collide and merge, the violence sets off ripples, in the form…
Terahertz microscope reveals the motion of superconducting electrons | MIT News
You can tell a lot about a material based on the type of light you shine at it:…
Pablo Jarillo-Herrero wins BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award | MIT News
Pablo Jarillo-Herrero, the Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Physics at MIT, has won the 2025 BBVA Foundation…
Anything-goes “anyons” may be at the root of surprising quantum experiments | MIT News
In the past year, two separate experiments in two different materials captured the same confounding scenario: the coexistence…
Scientists get a first look at the innermost region of a white dwarf system | MIT News
Some 200 light years from Earth, the core of a dead star is circling a larger star in…
MIT physicists observe key evidence of unconventional superconductivity in magic-angle graphene | MIT News
Superconductors are like the express trains in a metro system. Any electricity that “boards” a superconducting material can…
With a new molecule-based method, physicists peer inside an atom’s nucleus | MIT News
Physicists at MIT have developed a new way to probe inside an atom’s nucleus, using the atom’s own…
MIT physicists improve the precision of atomic clocks | MIT News
Every time you check the time on your phone, make an online transaction, or use a navigation app,…
Physicists devise an idea for lasers that shoot beams of neutrinos | MIT News
At any given moment, trillions of particles called neutrinos are streaming through our bodies and every material in…
Physicists propose tabletop “neutrino laser” to probe ghost particles
Trillions of ghostly particles called neutrinos stream through our bodies every second, slipping past atoms without a trace.…