Nobel

The work of Rainer Weiss and colleagues fundamentally alters our understanding of the universe.

Meet the Nobel Laureate who detected ripples in the fabric of space and time

Oct 3, 2017

MIT professor Rainer Weiss dreamed up the idea behind an antennae so sensitive it could detect faint invisible ripples in space and time.

Global Politics

A physicist who proved Einstein right started by tinkering with the family record player

Sep 28, 2016