Nearly 150 years ago, the physicist James Maxwell proposed that a circular lens that is thickest at its center, and...

Center for Theoretical Physics professors Daniel Harlow, Aram Harrow, Hong Liu and Jesse Thaler have been named recipients of research awards...

A transistor based on the 2-D material tungsten ditelluride (WTe2) sandwiched between boron nitride can switch between two different electronic...

Imagine that you earned tenure and your field’s acclaim decades ago. Perhaps you received a Nobel Prize. Perhaps you’re directing an institute for...

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A year ago, the “I’m a little teapot” song kept playing in my head. I was finishing a collaboration with David Limmer, a theoretical chemist...

The School of Science has announced that 14 of its faculty members have been appointed to named professorships. The faculty...

MIT researchers have invented a way to efficiently optimize the control and design of soft robots for target tasks, which has traditionally been...

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and their colleagues have developed an optical switch that routes light from one...

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When a guitar string is plucked, it vibrates as any vibrating object would, rising and falling like a wave, as...

Ordinarily, light particles — photons — don’t interact. If two photons collide in a vacuum, they simply pass through each...