Physicists zero in on the mass of the fundamental W boson particle | MIT News
When fundamental particles are heavier or lighter than expected, physicists’ understanding of the universe can tip into the…
Electrons in moiré crystals explore higher-dimensional quantum worlds | MIT News
The electrons that power our society flow left and right through the circuitry in our electronics, back and…
“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:…
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…
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.…
Professor Emeritus Daniel Kleppner, highly influential atomic physicist, dies at 92 | MIT News
Daniel Kleppner, the Lester Wolfe Professor Emeritus of Physics at MIT whose work in experimental atomic physics made…