MIT physicists have built a powerful new microscope that uses terahertz light to uncover hidden quantum motions inside superconductors. By compressing this normally unwieldy light into a tiny region, ...

WASHINGTON, March 17, 2026 — AIP and the American Physical Society are honored to award Charles Thorn with the 2026 Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics. Thorn is being recognized for ...

Superconductors are among the most puzzling materials in physics. They conduct electricity with zero resistance, but only ...

Albert Einstein's birth anniversary, also Pi Day, celebrates his profound impact on science, particularly relativity. His ...

Check out the press program for the American Physical Society’s Global Physics Summit today. The conference will be held in Denver and online everywhere March 15-20.

In a current strategy paper, an international team with the participation of TU Graz calls for the search for room-temperature superconductors to be pursued in a coordinated manner and with combined ...

The National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT), under the Ministry of Education, has announced a free online Physics course for Class 12 students on the SWAYAM platform. The ...

Members of the BYU “Q-gars” pose with iQuHACK judges after winning the IonQ challenge. The team earned first place at MIT’s annual quantum hackathon. (Courtesy of Kai Sandberg) For the first time in ...

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 ...

The body of Claudio Manuel Neves Valente, the suspected gunman in the shootings, was found in a storage unit in Salem, N.H., on Thursday with two guns beside him. On Saturday, authorities said they ...

A sprawling search for the person responsible for a deadly mass shooting at Brown University is over, but key questions remain about the alleged shooter. Authorities have identified the suspect as ...

As Nuno F.G. Loureiro’s colleagues mourn his shocking death at the hands of a former classmate, many are reflecting on the MIT physics professor’s legacy of scientific contributions and leadership.