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MIT research is moon-bound

June 19, 2009

Cutting CO2 emissions from existing coal plants

MIT Energy Initiative report details findings of symposium, identifies next steps

June 19, 2009

Study takes aim at opportunistic fungal pathogens

Research provides genome sequences and critical analyses of key Candida species

June 18, 2009

Planet found in tilted orbit around distant star

Odd discovery may help refine theories about how planets, solar systems form

June 17, 2009

Peeling stickers may lead way to stretchable electronics

New model enables precise design of damage-resistant materials

June 15, 2009

Li-Huei Tsai to direct Picower Institute

June 12, 2009

In mice, the loss of microRNA miR-31 allows cancer cells to spread to the lungs more easily than cancer cells with miR-31. The edge of the cancer tumors lacking miR-31 are also less defined than tumors containing cells with higher levels of miR-31.

RNA snippet suppresses spread of aggressive breast cancer

June 12, 2009

MIT President Susan Hockfield shakes hands with MIT alum Buzz Aldrin ScD '63.

In space, past is prologue

Giant Leaps celebrates Apollo, looks to future missions.

June 12, 2009

Mathematicians take aim at 'phantom' traffic jams

New model could help design better roads

June 9, 2009

This image shows the orbits of all recently discovered ultracool subdwarfs in and around the Milky Way, as seen from 150,000 light years away.

Ultracool stars take 'wild rides' around, outside the Milky Way

June 9, 2009

Robert Desimone, director of the McGovern Institute for Brain Research and the Doris and Don Berkey Professor of Neuroscience at MIT

Long-distance brain waves focus attention, McGovern study finds

May 28, 2009

A 'contrast chimera' of Albert Einstein, in which MIT researchers took the negative of an image, then reversed the contrast of the eyes so they appeared normal.

A human failure, seen at face value

Research probes why we have difficulty recognizing faces in photo negatives

March 13, 2009

Phillip (Terry) and Susan Ragon hold a copy of The Boston Globe issue that announced the creation of the Phillip T. and Susan M. Ragon Institute. All the principals -- the Ragons as well as the leaders of MGH, MIT and Harvard -- signed the newspaper.

Alum's $100 million gift targets AIDS vaccine

Ragon Institute to tackle quintessential MIT problem

February 4, 2009

MIT researchers use this microchip to trap and fuse pairs of cells.

Getting cells to pair off

New device couples, fuses cells for stem cell research

January 4, 2009

Math professor discovers chaos on a 'fluid trampoline'

Latest milestone in MIT's contributions to chaos theory

December 22, 2008

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