Four from MIT named 2019 Sloan Research Fellows
Nikhil Agarwal, Daniel Harlow, Andrew Lawrie, and Yufei Zhao receive early-career fellowships.
Nikhil Agarwal, Daniel Harlow, Andrew Lawrie, and Yufei Zhao receive early-career fellowships.
Number of proton-neutron pairs determine how fast the particles move, results suggest.
Graduate student Raspberry Simpson’s scientific journey approaches fruition.
The prestigious awards are supporting five innovative projects that challenge established norms and have the potential to be world-changing.
MIT researchers use resonant X-ray scattering measurements to reveal unexpected “Wigner glass” in desirable superconducting material.
Leading expert in acoustics, vibration, and machine dynamics served on the Department of Mechanical Engineering faculty for 32 years.
In series of talks, researchers describe major effort to address climate change through carbon-free power.
William Oliver says a lack of available quantum scientists and engineers may be an inhibitor of the technology’s growth.
Excitement is rising in the push to get zero-carbon energy on the grid.
An expert in instrumentation and early universe observations, Simcoe succeeds Jacqueline Hewitt as head of MIT’s Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research.
Researchers use CHIME telescope to detect fast radio bursts at low frequencies and a second repeating burst.
Senior Anthony Badea, a physics major and varsity soccer player, investigates the beginnings of the universe.
Measurements indicate a dense, gaseous, “sub-Neptune” world, three times the size of Earth.
MIT researchers show how to make and drive nanoscale magnetic quasi-particles known as skyrmions for spintronic memory devices.
Theoretical physicist's focus on the complexity of plasma turbulence could pay dividends in fusion energy.