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India's Nobel laureates are celebrated. From Rabindranath Tagore in 1913 to Abhijit Banerjee in 2019, these individuals ...

Created in 1991, the prestigious Ig Nobel Prizes spotlight unconventional studies from around the world that combine scientific rigor with humor.

Modern computing banks on conventional electronics and algorithms to process data. But because the hardware operates according to the laws of physics, data processing has a physical speed limit. The ...

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Renowned experimental physicist, Nobel laureate and Massachusetts Institute of Technology Professor Emeritus Rainer Weiss, passed away on Aug. 25 at the age of 92. Nergis Mavalvala, dean of the MIT ...

MIT’s new photonic AI chip processes data with light instead of electricity, cutting power use by 90%. Here’s why EV makers should be paying attention. Imagine an EV that doesn’t need a bulky cooling ...

"These single atoms are like the smallest slits you could possibly build." For over 100 years, quantum physics has taught us that light is both a wave and a particle. Now, researchers at the ...

In the push to shrink and enhance technologies that control light, MIT researchers have unveiled a new platform that pushes the limits of modern optics through nanophotonics, the manipulation of light ...

Superradiance When multiple electrons emit light in a coordinated manner, the resulting emission is much stronger than the sum of individual emissions. (Courtesy ...