A pillar of physics — that nothing can go faster than the speed of light — appears to be smashed by an oddball subatomic particle that has apparently made a giant end run around Albert Einstein's ...

Ever wonder what the warp nacelles actually do in the Star Trek franchise? Here's an exploration of the starship part and how it works.

The technology could support advances in high-speed communication systems, sensing tools, biological materials, and medical technologies.

Scientists have announced the results of a decade-long quest to measure Newton’s gravitational constant — nicknamed Big G — ...

If you loved watching Ryland Grace MacGyver his way through impossible problems in space, you need to meet Mark Watney. He's ...

Researchers have developed, for the first time in the world, incoherent dielectric tensor tomography (iDTT), a technology ...

Most people think the multiverse is just about "what-if" scenarios – other versions of you where you took that job in another city or turned left instead of right. But to a physicist, the multiverse ...

It is my pleasure to announce that the new head of WPI’s Department of Physics (PH) is Lyubov Titova, an accomplished scholar and teacher who leads the Ultrafast THz and Optical Spectroscopy Lab at ...

In a major breakthrough, scientists have experimentally confirmed a universal growth law in two dimensions using a quantum ...

Scientists observe a visible time crystal for the first time, revealing a phase of matter that repeats patterns through time.

Quantum geometry describes quantum states in systems with changing system parameters, such as an electron spinning in a magnetic field whose direction is slowly changing. The state of the electron ...