Four decades ago at Endicott House, an MIT professor convened a conference that launched quantum computing. Quantum computing as we know it got its start 40 years ago this spring at the first Physics ...

We often think of artificial intelligence as a tool for automating certain tasks. But it turns out that the technology could also help give us a better understanding of ourselves. At least that's what ...

An MIT device that makes the world's most precise rulers--with "ticks" only a few hundred billionths of a meter apart--could impact fields from the manufacture of computer chips to space physics. An ...