Shock waves should not be shocking—engineers across scientific fields need to be able to precisely predict how the instant ...

Global phase spectroscopy' makes ultraprecise optical timekeepers even more precise Researchers at MIT say they have ...

MIT researchers found that metals retain hidden atomic patterns once believed to vanish during manufacturing. These patterns ...

MIT physicists improved the stability of optical atomic clocks by reducing “quantum noise” — a fundamental measurement ...

If you're scrolling through this story on a smartphone, you're holding a product that harnesses one of the boldest ...

A tomic clocks, which power GPS, online transactions, and data networks, just became more precise. MIT physicists have developed a technique that doubles the accuracy of optical atomic clocks by ...

According to Alfred Nobel's will, the Nobel Prize in Physics was to go to "the person who shall have made the most important discovery or invention within the field of physics." The prize has been ...

The White House’s proposed “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education” — sent to MIT and eight other top-tier ...

To alumnus Gal Weitz (EngrPhys, ApMath’22), Boulder was a “dream destination” for undergrad. Now working in quantitative finance, Weitz shares how his education at CU Boulder set him up for success in ...

Abstract: Until recently most cancer biologists operated with the assumption that the most common route to metastasis and to therapy resistance involves cells of the primary tumor transforming to a ...

Cambridge residents and visitors are in for a treat this fall as the Cambridge Science Carnival makes a grand return on September 21. Announced in a recent statement—the MIT Museum and the City of ...