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 ...

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 ...

Researchers at MIT have unlocked the hidden power of boiling by exploring its role in energy, cooling, and more, promising breakthroughs in efficiency and safety. Matteo Bucci, an associate ...

In the 1960s, an unexpected gift from the Air Force led Herb Weiss ’40 to develop an antenna that could track a speeding bullet 1,000 miles above Earth. And a radome Buckminster Fuller had helped ...

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.

Dr. David Pritchard is a physicist at MIT and friend of Leanheardt. He said the physics of the classic baseball bat design do not add up. "When you look at the design of a classic baseball bat ...

At MIT, some said that they were being treated like high school students and even started a petition against the new physics classes. Students argued that the blind can't lead the blind, and that much ...