FROSTI is a new adaptive optics system that precisely corrects distortions in LIGO’s mirrors caused by extreme laser power.

The Boston area lost several luminaries in 2025, but their contributions won’t soon be forgotten. From Kitty Dukakis’s ...

Today's complex problems reveal the cost of overspecialization and sidelining of the humanities: Engineers can build AI ...

Documents show Jeffrey Epstein was not cast out after his child sex-crime conviction but remained embedded in a confidential ...

Scientists now think the universe may be filled with tiny “primordial” black holes, relics from the first moments after the ...

Kip Thorne, theoretical astrophysicist and Nobel laureate, will deliver the keynote address at Caltech’s 132nd annual ...

Let's rewind the clock back…oh, I don't know, let's say a hundred years. It was 1917, and Einstein had just developed his general theory of relativity. It was a masterpiece, giving us our modern-day ...

There's always a touch of melancholy when a chapter that has absorbed years of work comes to an end. In the case of the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT), those years amount to nearly 20—and now the ...

Cosmology is the study of the universe; its birth, evolution, and ultimate fate. This includes further developing and refining the prevailing model, the Big Bang theory, investigating the universe’s ...

Physicists using near-absolute-zero detectors have reached unprecedented sensitivity in the hunt for light dark matter. A groundbreaking scientific project known as QROCODILE, led by the University of ...

This consensus study committee evaluated the federal regulatory framework for research institutions as it currently exists, considered specific regulations that have placed undue and often ...

Megan Murray has been in limbo. The Harvard University epidemiologist and infectious diseases doctor has grants from the U.S. National Institutes of Health to fund ongoing research on tuberculosis.