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To the moon, by way of MIT

Instrumentation Lab made Apollo landings possible 40 years ago

June 3, 2009

Students from Professor of Archeology and Ancient Technology Dorothy Hosler's class work on making the full-size authentic replica of a pre-Columbian South American balsa oceangoing raft on the Charles river. Here Leslie Dewan and Feng Wu work.

Ancient trading raft sails anew

Faithful copy of pre-Columbian vessel tested on Charles

May 12, 2009

The crystallographic structure of a sheet of graphene is revealed in this Atomic Force Microscope picture.

A material for all seasons

MIT teams finding many uses for graphene, the newest form of carbon

May 4, 2009

President Susan Hockfield speaks at White House briefing on energy and new technology spending.

Hockfield, Obama urge major push in clean energy research funding

March 23, 2009

EECS assistant professors Tomás Palacios, left, and Jing Kong examine oscilloscope traces showing the doubling in frequency of an electromagnetic signal processed through their experimental graphene microchip.

New material could lead to faster chips

Graphene may solve communications speed limit

March 19, 2009

MIT students and residents of Ventanilla, Peru work on the bicilavadora, a novel, inexpensive bike/washing machine.

Spin cycle: a new kind of washer

Machine could produce clean clothes and local jobs

February 19, 2009

Zack Anderson, senior in elecrical engineering and computer sciences, holds a GenShock prototype up to a Humvee coil spring where it is installed.

More power from bumps in the road

MIT students develop energy-harvesting shock absorbers

February 9, 2009

Media Lab student Amit Zoran shows the Chameleon Guitar, along with a variety of the interchangeable soundboards -- made of different woods and other materials -- that can be inserted to alter the guitar's acoustic characteristics.

'Chameleon Guitar' blends old-world and high-tech

Guitar built by a student at MIT's Media Lab promises to provide the best of electronic and acoustic.

February 3, 2009

Ed Boyden, seated, Rutledge Ellis-Behnke, middle, and Joost Bonsen, met in Boyden's lab to discuss the class they teach together on neurotechnology as a discipline.

Burgeoning field of neurotech spawns brainy businesses

MIT positioning students for rapidly growing discipline

January 29, 2009

Astronomers crack longstanding lunar mystery

Ancient rock's magnetic field shows that moon once had a dynamo in its core

January 15, 2009

Robert L. Jaffe, the Otto (1939) and Jane Morningstar Professor of Science in the Department of Physics, teaches the 'Physics of Energy' class recently.

The nitty-gritty of energy

New physics course may be first of its kind nationwide

October 22, 2008

Building microchips from the bottom up

MIT develops novel self-assembly method that could break size barrier

August 14, 2008

Meet Nexi, the Media Lab's latest robot and Internet star

April 9, 2008

MIT researcher addresses biomedical engineering challenges

February 15, 2008

Obituaries

August 23, 2000

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