From proton packs to hidden props, the 2016 blockbuster draws upon MIT personalities and scientific panache.

MIT physicist developed the concept for LIGO as a teaching exercise.

Award will support research on the South Sea Bubble crisis as an example of connections between scientific developments and their larger social consequences.

Seventy-five years ago, an international meeting of scientific minds changed forever how MIT and other research institutions develop new technologies.

Events across MIT will mark the 100th anniversary of the general theory of relativity.