At MIT’s Formaggio Lab, Peña’s work may help researchers pinpoint the elusive particle’s mass—and refine the fundamental laws ...

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 ...

In 1927, Einstein used a variant of the double slit experiment – at that time only a thought experiment – to argue that ...

However, scientists now have a chance to study an FRB in incredible detail. An international team of scientists, including ...

The dazzling RBFLOAT radio burst, originating in a nearby galaxy, offers the clearest view yet of the environment around ...

The universe is governed by two sets of seemingly incompatible laws of physics – classical and quantum physics. MIT physicists have now observed the moment atoms switch from one to the other, as ...

Dianna Cowern runs Physics Girl full time. Here she discusses her path to studying physics and doing physics research before moving on to other, less prestigious, career pursuits.

Weiss was named the Nobel Prize winner in physics Tuesday morning for his work on gravitational wave detection. In September 2015, Weiss’s Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory ...

Weiss was named the Nobel Prize winner in physics Tuesday morning for his work on gravitational wave detection. In September 2015, Weiss’s Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory ...