Tracy Slatyer

The Breakthrough Prize Foundation has announced the recipients of the 2021 Breakthrough and New Horizons Prizes, including current Member Ahmed Almheiri (New Horizons Prize in Physics) and former Member Martin Hairer (Breakthrough Prize in...

Melissa Pandika of OZY profiles theoretical physicist Tracy Slatyer, former Member in the School of Natural Sciences, whose work, Pandika writes, "could bring physicists closer to detecting dark matter signals by better enabling them to tease these...

Since 2009, astrophysicists have been trying to explain the abundance of gamma radiation diffusing from the center of the Milky Way, a production of high-energy radiation far beyond what the known gamma-ray sources suggest. Tracy Slatyer, former...

Everything that humans have seen up until now exists in the 4.9 per cent of the universe that interacts with light. The rest is hidden from view. Most of it, physicists believe—68.3 per cent—is dark energy, an enigmatic force that drives the...

Tracy Slatyer, former Member (2010–13) in the School of Natural Sciences and Jerrold R. Zacharias Career Development Assistant Professor of Physics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has been named the first recipient of MIT's School of...

In Quanta's Abstractions blog, top women in mathematics and physics, including Miranda Cheng, Visitor (2011) in the School of Natural Sciences, Tracy Slatyer, Member (2010–13) in the School, Maria Chudnovsky, Veblen Research Instructor (2003–05) in...