As a young girl, Si-Hui Tan, PhD ’10, started studying science almost as a challenge. “I grew up in Singapore, where science is considered a boy thing,” she says. “I wanted to prove that I could do it ...
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 ...
On a December day, Richard Feynman gave a fun little lecture at Caltech — and dreamed up an entirely new field of physics. During the talk, entitled "Plenty of room at the bottom," he described the ...
In the past year, two separate experiments in two different materials captured the same confounding scenario: the coexistence of superconductivity and magnetism. Scientists had assumed that these two ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Thirty years ago, Claudio Neves Valente and Nuno F.G. Loureiro were classmates with bright futures. Both excelled in physics and ...
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 ...
Providence, R.I. — Thirty years ago, Claudio Neves Valente and Nuno F.G. Loureiro were classmates with bright futures. Both excelled in physics and made their way from their home country of Portugal ...