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Ranking at the top for the 15th year in a row, the Institute also places first in 12 subject areas.

MIT has again been named the world’s top university by the QS World University Rankings, which were announced today. This is the 15th year in a row MIT has received this distinction.

The full 2027 edition of the rankings — published by Quacquarelli Symonds, an orga...


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John Della Costa uses OpenCourseWare to engage fellow Antarctica “winterovers” in physics content, and to build community.

From the icy expanse of the South Pole, John Della Costa, a researcher on the Background Imaging of Cosmic Extragalactic Polarization (BICEP) project, watches STS.042/8.225 (


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Professor Ore Gottlieb and colleagues at MIT introduce a new theoretical roadmap to identify and track the life cycles of hypothetical “Hawking stars.”

We don’t know if the theorized primordial black holes (PBH) are real. If they are, they formed in the very early ...


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From MIT to UT Knoxville: Physics Alumna Haocun Yu (PhD ’20) leads the charge in reconciling foundational laws of nature.

Assistant Professor Haocun Yu is something of a scientific diplomat. In a recent


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As told by Pablo Jarillo-Herrero

My Early Youth

I was born in 1976 in Valencia (Spain) into a middle-class family. I am the second of four brothers. My parents did not have the opportunity to go to college, as they both started working in their teenage years. However, they were both well-read persons who valued hard work and culture, and...


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