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Tag: Physics
February 25th, 2026
Researchers in the lab of Katia Bertoldi, the William and Ami Kuan Danoff Professor of Applied Mechanics at SEAS, published a study reporting that squeaking emerges from a previously unseen mechanism. Answering the question ‘why do gym sneakers squeak’ could lead to new ways to engineer and control tunable frictional metamaterials.
November 12th, 2025
A collaborative research team led by Mikhail Lukin, co-director of the Quantum Science and Engineering Initiative and a professor at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, published research on a new system that addresses the challenge of quantum error correction. QuEra Computing, a startup company spun out of Lukin’s lab, is collaborating with the research team to advance these discoveries.
