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- 13 Jan 2020, 14:50 UTC Making physics and astronomy more welcoming to African-American students
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- 1 Jan 2020, 18:59 UTC Scientists pin down timing of lunar dynamo’s demise
- 23 Dec 2019, 19:55 UTC The billion-year belch
- 18 Dec 2019, 15:19 UTC A sign that aliens could stink
- 11 Dec 2019, 04:59 UTC Is there dark matter at the center of the Milky Way?
- 5 Dec 2019, 16:07 UTC New instrument extends LIGO’s reach
- 26 Nov 2019, 20:20 UTC Designing humanity’s future in space
- 25 Nov 2019, 17:15 UTC Interdisciplinary team takes top prize in Mars colony design competition
- 25 Nov 2019, 16:30 UTC MIT art installation aims to empower a more discerning public
- 20 Nov 2019, 15:50 UTC Phoenix cluster is cooling faster than expected
- 7 Nov 2019, 19:45 UTC Lincoln Laboratory welcomes Natalia Guerrero for Hispanic Heritage Month event
- 4 Nov 2019, 16:50 UTC School of Science appoints 14 faculty members to named professorships
- 1 Nov 2019, 15:00 UTC 3 Questions: How to control biofilms in space
- 29 Oct 2019, 16:15 UTC Practicing for a voyage to Mars
- 16 Oct 2019, 04:00 UTC Assembler robots make large structures from little pieces
- 15 Oct 2019, 08:42 UTC Astronomers use giant galaxy cluster as X-ray magnifying lens
- 7 Oct 2019, 03:59 UTC Scientists observe a single quantum vibration under ordinary conditions
- 3 Oct 2019, 14:53 UTC This is how a “fuzzy” universe may have looked
- 24 Sep 2019, 12:34 UTC Computing and the search for new planets
- 20 Sep 2019, 18:00 UTC Four from MIT named American Physical Society Fellows for 2019
- 17 Sep 2019, 03:59 UTC 3Q: Scientists shave estimate of neutrino’s mass in half
- 12 Sep 2019, 17:25 UTC TESS team is awarded NASA's Silver Achievement Medal
- 12 Sep 2019, 13:29 UTC Scientists detect tones in the ringing of a newborn black hole for the first time
- 6 Sep 2019, 15:58 UTC Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics awarded to Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration
- 5 Sep 2019, 19:00 UTC Taking the next giant leaps
- 3 Sep 2019, 08:39 UTC For first time, astronomers catch asteroid in the act of changing color
- 20 Aug 2019, 12:59 UTC A battery-free sensor for underwater exploration
- 20 Aug 2019, 04:00 UTC Physicists design an experiment to pin down the origin of the elements
- 19 Aug 2019, 15:00 UTC Rocky, Earth-sized exoplanet is missing an atmosphere
- 16 Aug 2019, 03:59 UTC Data-mining for dark matter
- 15 Aug 2019, 20:35 UTC John Ball, longtime Haystack Observatory scientist, dies at 83
- 9 Aug 2019, 17:25 UTC The music of the spheres
- 7 Aug 2019, 03:59 UTC Astrophysical shock phenomena reproduced in the laboratory
- 29 Jul 2019, 14:59 UTC TESS discovers three new planets nearby, including temperate “sub-Neptune”
- 29 Jul 2019, 09:54 UTC Scientists look to synthetic biology and 3-D printing for life support in space
- 23 Jul 2019, 20:00 UTC New faces in the School of Science faculty
- 18 Jul 2019, 13:23 UTC Behind the scenes of the Apollo mission at MIT
- 8 Jul 2019, 18:59 UTC Breaching a “carbon threshold” could lead to mass extinction
- 20 Jun 2019, 13:00 UTC 3Q: Julien de Wit on searching for red worlds in the northern skies
- 19 Jun 2019, 15:00 UTC Four 2019 40 Under 40 award winners are from Lincoln Laboratory
- 17 Jun 2019, 13:00 UTC How to detect life on Mars
- 11 Jun 2019, 03:59 UTC Algorithm tells robots where nearby humans are headed
- 31 May 2019, 19:45 UTC Maria Zuber awarded the Gerard P. Kuiper Prize in Planetary Sciences
- 20 May 2019, 17:00 UTC MIT team places second in 2019 NASA BIG Idea Challenge
- 10 May 2019, 21:15 UTC MIT, Blue Origin to cooperate on sending research experiment to the moon
- 8 May 2019, 04:00 UTC Explosions of universe’s first stars spewed powerful jets
- 7 May 2019, 16:00 UTC Tissue chip headed to International Space Station for osteoarthritis study
- 6 May 2019, 18:00 UTC A sustainability rating for space debris
- 3 May 2019, 18:50 UTC Six suborbital research payloads from MIT fly to space and back
