Sit back and watch the video lectures, and feel yourself getting smarter by the minute. Quantum Physics I This course is among the most popular of MIT’s online offerings.

The latest web celeb is a physics professor. Professor Walter Lewin, who teaches an introductory physics course at MIT, has become an internet celebrity thank to his outrageous antics, daredevil ...

This week, a team of researchers out of MIT, Harvard, and China’s Tsinghua University---all schools that offer MOOCs--- released a study showing that students who attended a MIT physics class ...

Walter Lewin is an author, an astrophysicist and a professor of physics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), who might be most famous for his eccentric lectures (which you can access ...

How an MIT professor helped confirm Einstein’s theory of relativity After over 40 years of research, the work of MIT physics professor Rainer Weiss has been validated.

At MIT’s Formaggio Lab, Peña’s work may help researchers pinpoint the elusive particle’s mass—and refine the fundamental laws ...