In a groundbreaking discovery, researchers have detected a previously unknown quantum force capable of bending light in controlled lab simulations. This finding challenges our current understanding of ...

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 ...

MIT physicists captured images that revealed the behavior of heat as waves for the first time in rare states of matter, like superfluids.

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 ...