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Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences Professor Richard Binzel, and graduate student Cristina Thomas, are doing remote observing of asteroids using a NASA IRTF telescope in Hawaii that they are controlling from MIT. They are assisted by Paul Sears (on TV screen), a research associate in Hawaii.

Eyes on the stars, even under cloudy skies

March 19, 2008

Professor of Archeology and Ancient Technology Dorothy Hosler, back left on the raft, helps row a raft built by four of her students in 2004. Leslie Dewan, standing, recently worked with Hosler to show how similar rafts carried goods through the Americas before the arrival of the Europeans.

Floating a big idea

MIT demonstrates pre-Columbian use of rafts to transport goods

March 19, 2008

Three things you should know about your benefits

March 19, 2008

Bringing a bit of MIT to Africa

March 19, 2008

Senior research scientist Jay Kesner stands by the now-operational LDX fusion reactor, in which a series of experiments are being run.

MIT tests unique approach to fusion power

Mimicking Earth's magnetic field in a giant thermos bottle

March 19, 2008

Awards & Honors

March 19, 2008

Study sees mental link between drug price, effectiveness

March 19, 2008

Faculty meeting March 19

March 19, 2008

EECS in Asia

March 19, 2008

An artist's representation of a proposed satellite that would be used to view distant planets. A planet is transiting a star in the background.

MIT aims to search for Earth-like planets with Google's help

March 19, 2008

Author-illustrator Macaulay to speak at MIT April 1

March 19, 2008

Seven MIT research teams win Deshpande grants

Awarded $500K in total

March 19, 2008

This figure shows the structure of a beta-sheet protein, Z1-Z2 telethonin complex, in the giant muscle protein titin. The inset shows the orientation of the protein backbone of three beta strands (in purple) with hydrogen bonds (yellow) holding the assembly together. Buehler and Keten found that hydrogen bonds in beta-sheet structures break in clusters of three or four, even in the presence of man...

A tangled web: CEE researchers unravel the secrets of spider silk's strength

March 19, 2008

OCW, Elsevier offer free content from thousands of journals

March 19, 2008

Brokaw to deliver Compton lecture April 2

March 19, 2008

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MIT aims to search for Earth-like planets with Google's help

Author-illustrator Macaulay to speak at MIT April 1

Seven MIT research teams win Deshpande grants

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