Among eight, student-nominated and student-judged, honored for innovations in exemplary teaching with technology. Eight MIT faculty and instructors have received the 2025 Teaching with Digital Technology Awards. The student-nominated and …
At this week’s American Physical Society Global Physics Summit in Anaheim, California, John Preskill spoke at an event celebrating 100 years of groundbreaking advances in quantum mechanics. Here are his …
The Standard Model of particle physics is said to be the most successful scientific theory ever. That’s what Quanta Magazine said, and plenty of other people say much the same …
(Music: “Silver Lanyard” by Blue Dot Sessions) Intro: This is Berkeley Talks, a Berkeley News podcast from the Office of Communications and Public Affairs that features lectures and conversations at UC Berkeley. You can …
The building 54 student-run remote observation lab, in partnership with the MIT Wallace Astrophysical Observatory, is a place for undergraduate astronomy students to gather, observe, and build community MIT Students doing astronomy research …
Several people have asked me whether writing a popular-science book has fed back into my research. Nature Physics published my favorite illustration of the answer this January. Here’s the story …
I’ve spoken to various people about simulations over the years. The latest conversation I had was on a Zoom session a couple of weeks ago. We were talking about how …
Paul L. Richards, an experimental physicist who built some of the first highly sensitive detectors to probe the faint radiation left over from the birth of the universe, died peacefully …
Lab experiments show “ionic liquids” can form through common planetary processes and might be capable of supporting life even on waterless planets. Water is essential for life on Earth. So, …
Quantum computing finds itself in a peculiar situation. On the technological side, after billions of dollars and decades of research, working quantum computers are nearing fruition. But still, the number …