Jerrold R. Zacharias developed the first commercial atomic clock, made advances in radar systems, and helped build the first atomic bomb at Los Alamos during World War II. The adoption of atomic time ...

Taking the helm Dava Newman, who invented the BioSuit for lunar and Martian exploration, will take over from Joi Ito as head of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Media Lab. (Courtesy: ...

CAMBRIDGE — Sixty-five years after he failed out of MIT — finding his way back as a lab technician with a soldering iron and a union card — Rainer Weiss got the call from Sweden. For a moment, he ...

As a longtime physics professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and director of the Molecular Beam Lab, John G. King wanted students, and essentially everyone else, to watch science ...