We all know that water evaporates when the temperature climbs, but researchers have just shown that there's another factor at play. The breakthrough could solve long-standing atmospheric mysteries and ...

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 ...

Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have taken an image of what it’s like to cross between worlds — well, sort of. As detailed in a new study published in Nature this week, the ...

This is the first article in a two-part series discussing innovative teaching techniques in college physics classes. Today's installment will focus on interactive programs instated at other ...

Rainer Weiss just wanted to know he wasn’t completely out of touch. After flunking out of MIT, the young physicist went searching for affirmation when he stumbled into a technician’s job at the ...

MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) has unveiled an innovative AI model that merges principles of diffusion and Poisson Flow. According to MIT News, the researchers ...

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Jerrold R. Zacharias developed the first commercial atomic clock, made advances in radar systems, and helped build the first atomic bomb at Los Alamos during World War II. The adoption of atomic time ...

Daniel Kleppner, a highly honored physicist who developed technologies that helped pave the way for the Global Positioning System and whose foundational atomic discoveries helped open up the field of ...

We often think of artificial intelligence as a tool for automating certain tasks. But it turns out that the technology could also help give us a better understanding of ourselves. At least that's what ...

Rainer Weiss just wanted to know he wasn’t completely out of touch. After flunking out of MIT, the young physicist went searching for affirmation when he stumbled into a technician’s job at the ...