Dr. Weiss, who shared the 2017 Nobel Prize in physics with two other scientists for their contributions to creating and building the LIGO, was 92 when he died Aug. 25, MIT announced.

His lying and temper tantrums aside, evidence abounds that the president's most important, and dangerous, feature is his ignorance.

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Renowned experimental physicist, Nobel laureate and Massachusetts Institute of Technology Professor Emeritus Rainer Weiss, ...

He shared the Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on gravitational waves, which helped confirm Einstein’s general theory of ...

The renowned experimental physicist and Nobel laureate whose brainchild resulted in the LIGO observatory at Hanford in ...

Today’s quantum computers are fundamentally impractical. But with a more resilient qubit, scientists believe they can unlock the technology’s extraordinary potential. Soon, they hope to prove it.

Textbooks give strange, imprecise explanations of where things happen in quantum mechanics. Consistency with gravity needs a fresh approach.

It was an ingenious experiment, but Michelson and Morley did not get the result they were expecting, over and over and over again.

“Using newer mathematical tools, my colleague and I have demonstrated a new theory that may accurately describe the universe. Instead of basing the theory on the warping of space and time, we ...