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

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

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

About 17,000 people registered for Mechanics Review, a MOOC patterned after a course offered on campus to MIT students who had received a D or lower in a fall physics course. Most of those who ...

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.

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 ...

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 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 ...

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.

CAMBRIDGE, MASS. — In a perfect world, there'd be no wires. They clutter the view, get tangled behind desks and limit how far networks can reach. That's why the telegraph gave way to the radio ...

MIT math professor Peter Shor shared in the 2023 Breakthrough Prize in fundamental physics with three other researchers, all of them “pioneers in the field of quantum information,” the prize ...

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