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The class does some climbing at California's Fossil Falls, the remains of a waterfall carved by the Owens River thousands of years ago. Students found obsidian chips and places in the rock where women once ground grain at a Native American settlement on the river bank.

Students scale the heights on rock-and-road trip

January 30, 2004

Emily Crapar, an MIT graduate student in aeronautics and astronautics, works on making a tiny chocolate table.

Students create sculptures that melt in your mouth

January 30, 2004

Happy birthday

January 28, 2004

The camera on the Mars rover Spirit recorded this image of a football-size rock, officially named "Adirondack" by MIT Professor John Grotzinger. It was chosen as the rover's first target because its flat, dust-free surface is ideally suited for grinding.

It's time to rock and rove for MIT's Grotzinger

January 28, 2004

News You Can Use

January 28, 2004

Emmanuel Music continues Harbison series on Feb. 1

January 28, 2004

Eleanor Roosevelt with Wiesner and his daughter, Lisa, during the taping of "The Scientists and World Politics" on WGBH-TV in December 1960.

New book celebrates Wiesner's legacy

January 28, 2004

Mental health reports on enhancements

January 28, 2004

Dillon Tavitian (left) and his big sibling David Nguyen do some exploring together with a microscope Nguyen gave Dillon.

Adoptees finding kindred spirits in MIT program

January 28, 2004

Survey says: cell phone most hated invention

January 28, 2004

MIT's Nanoruler was used to create parallel lines and spaces only 400 billionths of a meter apart (the diameter of a human hair is about 250 times larger) across this silicon wafer. The wafer is 12 inches in diameter.

Nanoruler a promising line of work

January 28, 2004

Arts News

January 28, 2004

Weinberg wins Wolf Prize

January 28, 2004

MIT space researchers respond to President Bush's Mars plan

January 28, 2004

Higher-ed software venture launched

January 28, 2004

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Students scale the heights on rock-and-road trip

Students create sculptures that melt in your mouth

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It's time to rock and rove for MIT's Grotzinger

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Emmanuel Music continues Harbison series on Feb. 1

New book celebrates Wiesner's legacy

Mental health reports on enhancements

Adoptees finding kindred spirits in MIT program

Survey says: cell phone most hated invention

Nanoruler a promising line of work

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Weinberg wins Wolf Prize

MIT space researchers respond to President Bush's Mars plan

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