MIT researchers have built a terahertz microscope that reveals hidden quantum motion inside superconductors for the first time.

You can tell a lot about a material based on the type of light shining at it: Optical light illuminates a material's surface, ...

Scientists still don’t know how the brain turns physical activity into thoughts, feelings, and awareness—but a powerful new tool may help crack the mystery. Researchers at MIT are exploring ...

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In November of last year, a research team led by Professor Ra Young-sik from the Department of Physics at KAIST developed the world’s first technology that allows clear observation and analysis of the ...

Those who knew Neves Valente described him as both brilliant and confrontational and resentful.

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. As a new graduate of Washington University in St. Louis with degrees in engineering and physics, ...

As a young girl, Si-Hui Tan, PhD ’10, started studying science almost as a challenge. “I grew up in Singapore, where science is considered a boy thing,” she says. “I wanted to prove that I could do it ...

Max Tegmark, the MIT physics professor who has become an AI safety campaigner, emerged from days of meetings in a Vatican conference room in September with a stack of paper slips about the size of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Thirty years ago, Claudio Neves Valente and Nuno F.G. Loureiro were classmates with bright futures. Both excelled in physics and ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Thirty years ago, Claudio Neves Valente and Nuno F.G. Loureiro were classmates with bright futures. Both excelled in physics and made their way from their home country of Portugal ...