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MIT political science and physics major Leela Fredlund wants to ensure fairness and justice prevail in humanity’s leap to space.

For the first time, MIT physicists have captured direct images of “second sound,” the movement of heat sloshing back and forth within a superfluid. The results will expand scientists’ understanding of heat flow in superconductors and neutron stars.

MIT physicists discovered stars near the edge of the Milky Way travel more slowly than those closer to its center — a surprise suggesting our galaxy’s gravitational core may have less dark matter than previously thought.

MIT physicists have trapped electrons in a pure crystal, marking the first achievement of an electronic flat band in a three-dimensional material. The results provide a new way for scientists to explore rare electronic states in 3D materials.

MIT professors Leonid Mirny, Davesh Maulik, Aram Harrow, Virginia Vassilevska Williams, and Vinod Vaikuntanathan have been selected to receive the 2023 Simons Investigator Awards from the Simons Foundation in support of their work on fundamental theoretical questions of math, physics, and computer science.