Physics

Physicists discover surprising variation in superconductors

Work may lead to understanding of new class of materials

January 27, 2009

MIT scientists to be key Lunar Institute members

January 12, 2009

A 3-D representation of Cas A. The green region is mostly iron observed in X-rays; the yellow is mostly argon and sillicon; the red is cooler debris and the blue region is the outer blast wave.

MIT provides in-depth look at exploded star

January 8, 2009

Elizabeth Kubicki, an assistant in the Microsystems Technology Laboratories, stands outside the art contest board near Professor Walter Lewin's office.

Good art hunting

MIT physics teacher tests art knowledge in hallway contest

December 17, 2008

Saturation maps from a numerical simulation of the proposed model show that the flow dynamics and the distinctive saturation overshoot at the tip of the fingers agree with experimental observations.

Researchers finger the cause of 'gravity fingers'

December 12, 2008

An inside view of a neutron detector in development at MIT's Laboratory for Nuclear Science. Pappalardo Fellow Jocelyn Monroe, is seen through the detector.

New detector will aid dark matter search

Calibration tool will reveal when hypothetical particles are detected

December 10, 2008

Professor Adam Burgasser, physics, has a paper on the discovery of the faintest brown dwarfs ever found.

Dimmest star-like objects discovered

December 10, 2008

From the control room, graduate students Rachael McDermott and Eric Edlund perform experiments on the Alcator C-Mod tokamak to support their thesis work.

New insights on fusion power

December 3, 2008

Research Lab of Electronics post-doc Peter Bermel.

Boosting the power of solar cells

New research could lead to higher output, lower cost

November 26, 2008

Two Scientists named to Discover's 'Top 20 Under 40' list

November 13, 2008

DoE's Dehmer to discuss science's role in energy challenges

November 3, 2008

Robert L. Jaffe, the Otto (1939) and Jane Morningstar Professor of Science in the Department of Physics, teaches the 'Physics of Energy' class recently.

The nitty-gritty of energy

New physics course may be first of its kind nationwide

October 22, 2008

The groundbreaking ceremony for the new computer center at the MIT-Bates Linear Accelerator Center included, from left, Bolek Wyslouch, professor in physics and the Laboratory for Nuclear Science (LNS);
Robert Redwine, professor of physics and director of MIT-Bates; Karen Dow of LNS and associate director of MIT-Bates; Ed Bertschinger, head of the MIT Department of Physics; Brad Black, principal ...

High-power computer cluster to sift through LHC data

October 14, 2008

Left image highlights two platinum-cobalt catalyst nanoparticles (inside the dashed boxes) with a 'sandwich' structure of platinum and cobalt atoms near the surface. At right is a cross-sectional model corresponding to the lower particle, showing platinum atoms enriched in the outermost layer, cobalt enriched in the second, and additional layers containing a mixture of the two. (Image at left take...

Team takes first atomic-scale compositional images of fuel-cell nanoparticles

Work could lead to better catalysts for eco-friendly energy storage devices

October 2, 2008

'To fold a big bang'