By developing a novel technique to get a “direct view” of its properties, MIT physicists have reported a significant ...

R esearchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have made a new physics-based tool that can predict how ...

What steps can be taken to mitigate lightning strikes on future aircraft designs? This is what a recent study published in ...

MIT physicists observed key evidence of unconventional superconductivity in magic-angle graphene. The findings could lead to ...

More than 70 aircraft are struck by lightning every day. If you happen to be flying when a strike occurs, chances are you won ...

MIT researchers have devised a new molecular technique that lets electrons probe inside atomic nuclei, replacing massive particle accelerators with a tabletop setup. By studying radium monofluoride, ...

Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have taken an image of what it’s like to cross between worlds — well, sort of. As detailed in a new study published in Nature this week, the ...

While teaching large physics lectures at MIT, Walter H. G. Lewin radiates enthusiasm. "And now, I’m going to blow your mind," said Lewin before giving a lesson about electrical circuits that seem to ...

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 ...