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 ...

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To explain these devices (the physics behind them), the show brought in the big guns. Let's bring in an MIT physics professor that has won a Nobel Prize. That should do it, right? Here is their ...

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

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 ...

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.

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A new technical paper titled “AI Agents for Photonic Integrated Circuit Design Automation” was published by researchers at ...

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

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 ...