What happens when the smallest building blocks of matter refuse to play by the rules of traditional physics? For decades, ...

The MIT professor, a recipient of the National Medal of Science, developed technologies that helped pave the way for the Global Positioning System.

In the 1960s, an unexpected gift from the Air Force led Herb Weiss ’40 to develop an antenna that could track a speeding ...

MIT physicists have created a new ultrathin, two-dimensional material with unusual magnetic properties that initially surprised them before they went on to solve the complicated puzzle behind ...

The latest web celeb is a physics professor. Professor Walter Lewin, who teaches an introductory physics course at MIT, has become an internet celebrity thank to his outrageous antics, daredevil ...

MIT Shows How To Cut The (Power) Cord. June 8, 2007 / 12:56 PM EDT / CBS/AP In a perfect world, there'd be no wires. They clutter the view, get tangled behind desks and limit how far networks ...

MIT has this option where you can either do physics, extreme physics, or you could do something called physics flex or physics B. And you could do a focus within your physics major.

Making sure. Because the discovery of light-based evaporation was so striking, the MIT researchers carried out 14 different verification experiments that all supported the finding.

A research team led by Harvard and MIT physics professors has manipulated photons of light to form molecules, a discovery that is very exciting to people with a high level understanding of physics ...

He developed technologies that helped pave the way for the Global Positioning System and made foundational discoveries that ...