Teen builds an award-winning virtual reality prototype thanks to free MIT courses
When Freesia Gaul discovered MIT Open Learning’s OpenCourseWare at just 14 years old, it opened up a world of learning far beyond what her classrooms could offer.…
Her parents had started a skiing company, and the seasonal work meant …
Growing up in small towns in Australia and Canada, she relied on the i…
“I went to 13 different schools, which was hard because you're in a di…
Anything-goes “anyons” may be at the root of surprising quantum experiments
In the past year, two separate experiments in two different materials captured the same confounding scenario: the coexistence of superconductivity and magnetism.…
Scientists had assumed that these two quantum states are mutually excl…
Now, theoretical physicists at MIT have an explanation for how this Je…
In a paper appearing today in the Proceedings of the National Academy …
Quantum fluid reveals hidden states that can be switched with a magnetic field
Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) are often described as a "fifth state of matter": a quantum state in which many particles lose their individual identities and behave as one collective object.…
For more than 60 years, researchers have sought to create such condens…
This has been difficult to realize in controllable semiconductor devic…
Molecular orbitals imaged in 3D, opening path to femtosecond videos
One of the most famous and intriguing results of quantum mechanics is the finding that fundamental particles, such as electrons, cannot be pinned down to one single location.…
Instead, a particle is described by its "wavefunction," which allows r…
In particular, the electron wavefunctions within a molecule, known as …
For example, they show how it may absorb light or how a chemical react…
Sixteen new START.nano companies are developing hard-tech solutions with the support of MIT.nano
MIT.nano has announced that 16 startups became active participants in its START.nano program in 2025, more than doubling the number of new companies from the previous year.…
Aimed at speeding the transition of hard-tech innovation to market, ST…
nano supports new ventures through the discounted use of MIT.
nano shared facilities and a guided access to the MIT innovation ecosy…
New chip can protect wireless biomedical devices from quantum attacks
As quantum computers advance, they are expected to be able to break tried-and-true security schemes that currently keep most sensitive data secure from attackers.…
Scientists and policymakers are working to design and implement post-q…
MIT researchers have developed an ultra-efficient microchip that can b…
Such wearable, ingestible, or implantable devices are usually too powe…
Air-stable, ultrathin superconductors developed for more scalable quantum devices
Super-thin superconducting materials, which are only one or a few atoms thick, have unique properties scientists can leverage to produce more compact, scalable, and efficient quantum devices.…
But these fragile materials degrade so rapidly in air that they are di…
Two-qubit entangling gate flags its own errors as detectable photon losses
Quantum errors are a normal part of quantum computing because fragile physical qubits (the tiny components storing data) can easily break down because of environmental noise, like heat, stray signals or microscopic vibrations.…
Typical fixes involve vast amounts of extra hardware qubits, which mak…
X(2370) emerges as glueball-dominated particle in collider experiments
At the International Conference on High Energy Physics in Brazil, the BESIII Collaboration report that, after 15 years of sustained research, it identified the dominant constituent of the X(2370) as a pseudoscalar glueball with spin-parity quantum numbers of 0⁻⁺.
Improving the reliability of circuits for quantum computers
Quantum computers could someday solve pressing problems that are too convoluted for classical computers, such as modeling complex molecular interactions to streamline drug discovery and materials development.…
But to build a superconducting quantum computer that is large and resi…
To help scientists design more predictable circuits, researchers from …
Their analysis revealed the source of these distortions, known as seco…
Researchers “reprogram” materials by quickly rearranging their atoms
It’s been 37 years since scientists first demonstrated the ability to move single atoms, suggesting the possibility of designing materials atom by atom to customize their properties.…
Today there are several techniques that allow researchers to move indi…
But existing techniques can only move atoms across the surface of mate…
Most also require painstakingly slow processes and high-vacuum, ultrac…
Media Advisory: MIT to establish regional quantum hub
MIT and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts announced plans to establish the Quantum Systems Laboratory (QSL) at MIT, which will be open to researchers across the region.…
With the new funding from the state, which will match federal funding …
The QSL will host specialized facilities that will enable Massachusett…
Quantum technologies promise transformative changes in fields from com…