President Donald Trump accepted the original National Medal of Science awarded to his late uncle, MIT engineer John G. Trump, ...

Francis Halzen has won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on IceCube and high-energy neutrinos, opening a new way to study violent events across the universe.

The 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics is awarded to Francis Halzen, a professor at the University of Wisconsin, for discovery of ...

Francis Halzen is a leader in the study of neutrinos, ghostly particles from across the universe that hint at exciting new ...

Rather than reduce pressure on students to compete for A’s, a cap will exacerbate the problem. Under such circumstances, we ...

Cui-Zu Chang, professor of physics, has been selected as an Experimental Physics Investigator by the Gordon and Betty Moore ...

MIT physicist and AI researcher Max Tegmark says concern over AI is finally breaking through in Washington, after a bipartisan Senate briefing and a conference featuring far-right media host Steve ...

MIT researchers built a robotic optics lab that assembled a working laser in 30 minutes, pointing toward more autonomous scientific research. MIT unveils self-aligning robotic tabletop for ...

Tran Quang Vinh, an International Physics Olympiad gold medalist, was the only student to win two of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology physics department's academic awards this year. The ...

Less than a year after physicists proposed concentrating the universe's most elusive particles into a laser-like beam, a team at MIT has shut the idea down — twice over, on two independent grounds, ...

Artificial intelligence can already generate texts, create images and generate 3D objects, but getting AI to understand how those objects behave in the real world is much harder. Researchers at MIT ...