Distance learning far precedes the digital age. Before online courses, people relied on print materials (and later radio and ...

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Researchers at MIT’s Picower Institute found that rotating waves of brain activity help restore focus after distractions. In ...

Anomalous” heat flow, which at first appears to violate the second law of thermodynamics, gives physicists a way to detect ...

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T-Tao, the compact fusion power company pioneering next-generation clean energy solutions, today announced that Jonathan S. Wurtele, Ph.D., has been appointed to its Advisory Board.

Robert D. Maurer, alumnus of the Department of Physics, was an industrial physicist noted for his leadership in the invention of optical fiber. He passed away at the age of 101 on Sept. 9, 2025, in ...

Every second of modern life runs on precision — from GPS navigation to the time signals that keep the internet in sync. But scientists at MIT and Harvard have just taken precision to an entirely new ...

STOCKHOLM - US-based scientists John Clarke, Michel Devoret and John Martinis won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics for "experiments that revealed quantum physics in action", paving the way for the ...

Three U.S.-based scientists were awarded the Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday for their discoveries in quantum mechanics. The award was given to John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis for ...

Scientists John Clarke, Michel Devoret and John Martinis won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics for "the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy quantization in an electric ...