The last gasp of a primordial black hole may be the source of the highest-energy "ghost particle" detected to date, a new MIT ...

The College of Natural Sciences welcomed more than a dozen new tenured and tenure-track faculty members in 2025.

Surprisingly, they found that only around 10% of a quake’s energy causes the physical shaking most people associate with ...

On January 14, 2025, a gravitational wave dubbed GW250114 reached Earth. Like its predecessor, GW150914, it came from a pair ...

Super-cooling radioactive atoms could create a laser-like neutrino beam, potentially opening a new avenue for studying these elusive particles and even enabling novel forms of communication. Every ...

Physicist who spearheaded the construction of the LIGO observatory to detect Einstein’s predicted ripples in space-time ...

The humble inventions that power our modern world wouldn’t have been possible without decades of support for early-stage ...

Renowned experimental physicist, Nobel laureate and Massachusetts Institute of Technology Professor Emeritus Rainer Weiss, passed away on Aug. 25 at the age of 92. Nergis Mavalvala, dean of the MIT ...

"Rai leaves an indelible mark on science and a gaping hole in our lives." Renowned experimental physicist, Nobel laureate and Massachusetts Institute of Technology Professor Emeritus Rainer Weiss, ...

A CQMT based QUB team in collaboration with University College Dublin in Republic of Ireland and two US-based institutions has reported environmental control of ferroelectricity in hafnia films with ...