Phiala Shanahan is seeking fundamental answers about our physical world
With supercomputers and machine learning, the physicist aims to illuminate the structure of everyday particles and uncover signs of dark matter.
With supercomputers and machine learning, the physicist aims to illuminate the structure of everyday particles and uncover signs of dark matter.
Annual award honors early-career researchers for creativity, innovation, and research accomplishments.
“Squeezing” noise over a broad frequency bandwidth in a quantum system could lead to faster and more accurate quantum measurements.
The findings could provide a new way to control chemical reactions.
A quick electric pulse completely flips the material’s electronic properties, opening a route to ultrafast, brain-inspired, superconducting electronics.
Poet, student advocate, and math/physics double-major Catherine Ji is living boldly at MIT.
A new technique helps verify the accuracy of experiments that probe the strange behavior of atomic-scale systems.
Exhibit at MIT's Koch Institute attempts to make visible the luminary personalities behind major scientific and engineering advances.
Investigating the solar wind flowing past Earth, the MIT professor has found solitary waves that might arise within fusion devices.
A new method can produce a hundredfold increase in light emissions from a type of electron-photon coupling, which is key to electron microscopes and other technologies.
The MIT professor discussed a new nanoengineered platform to investigate strongly correlated and topological physics.
Unique PSFC-designed spectrometer provides crucial data about the implosion that yielded an historic fusion energy gain.
The new fellowship from the governments of Australia, India, Japan, and the United States, administered by Schmidt Futures, supports graduate education in STEM fields.
Rachel Chae and Sihao Huang ’22 will pursue graduate studies in the United Kingdom.
Current measurements of black holes are not enough to nail down how the invisible giants form in the universe, researchers say.