Physicists at MIT recreated the double-slit experiment using individual photons and atoms held in laser light, uncovering the ...

A decade later, Harvard, MIT, Columbia, Stanford, and other big schools were scooping up most Nobel Prizes, Fields Medals, ...

Tensions on campus over the war in Gaza are simmering again this summer, with all the elements for another high-profile ...

A bloom of toxic blue-green algae was found in the Charles River near the Harvard Bridge on Thursday, prompting health ...

Lehrer, who died July 26, wrote numerous satirical songs, including "Pollution" and "The Vatican Rag." In the latter half of his life, he also taught math at Harvard and MIT.

This quantum balancing act—long debated by Einstein and Bohr—was tested without traditional “spring” components, instead ...

Alison Kaplan fell for Tom Lehrer's parody songs long before she met Mark Russell. Then she fell for Russell's parodies – and ...

Markets are full of complicated gauges, but sometimes the simplest ones deliver the cleanest signal. Right now, the U.S. Dollar Index (DXY) is sliding while the global M2 money supply is swelling, and ...

Thomas A. Lehrer ’47 — a beloved musician and mathematics instructor who set sardonic commentary to upbeat piano melodies — ...

When surgeons repair tissues, they're currently limited to mechanical solutions such as sutures and staples, which can cause their own damage, or meshes and glues that may not adequately bond with ...

MIT physicists perform the most precise double-slit experiment using ultracold atoms, confirming Bohr’s quantum theory over ...

Joseph is also the co-founder and Chief Science Officer of Covariance.ai, an MIT-based startup named to the STEX25 and awarded the 2024 Cubies Innovation Prize by Harvard’s D^3 Institute. He currently ...