The MRL helps bring together academia, government, and industry to accelerate innovation in sustainability, energy, and advanced materials. Materials research thrives across MIT, spanning disciplines and departments. Recent breakthroughs include …
When I worked in Cambridge, Massachusetts, a friend reported that MIT’s postdoc association had asked its members how it could improve their lives. The friend confided his suggestion to me: …
There was really good article in the Atlantic recently. It was written by Ross Anderson, and it was called The Nobel Prize Winner who thinks we have the universe all …
The University of California, Berkeley, a world leader in theoretical physics since J. Robert Oppenheimer planted the seed nearly 100 years ago, will share with four other institutions the largest …
The longtime MIT professor shared a Nobel Prize for his role in developing the LIGO observatory and detecting gravitational waves. MIT Professor Emeritus Rainer Weiss ’55, PhD ’62, a renowned …
A common saying goes, you should never meet your heroes, because they’ll disappoint you. But you shouldn’t trust every common saying; some heroes impress you more, the better you know …
The world is a troubled place, and I don’t feel too optimistic about it right now. I won’t go into details because this is a physics blog, not a politics …
Mary K. Gaillard, a theoretical physicist whose calculations of the properties of new elementary particles helped validate the Standard Model of physics in the 1970s, died on May 23 of …
The sPHENIX detector is on track to reveal properties of primordial quark-gluon plasma. A new and powerful particle detector just passed a critical test in its goal to decipher the …
Sunflowers are blooming, stores are trumpeting back-to-school sales, and professors are scrambling to chart out the courses they planned to develop in July. If you’re applying for an academic job …