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Direct observation of the superfluid phase transition in ultracold Fermi gases. The images show the excess atoms (the 'single men') in the gas cloud that are not involved in the superfluid pairing. As the superfluid forms in the center, the excess atoms have to give way and start forming a shell around it.

MIT physicists shed new light on superfluidity

July 20, 2006

Professor Gerbrand Ceder holds up a model of a perovskite crystal. Ceder and his team of researchers have used data about such crystals to come up with a method for predicting the structure of materials.

Sales method pays off for materials scientists

Data mining used to predict crystal structures

July 19, 2006

MEET to graduate first class in Jerusalem

July 11, 2006

Senior Alexander Krull is interning at Rolls Royce in Berlin this summer thanks to the MIT International Science and Technology Initiatives, or MISTI program. He is shown in front of the Reichstag, where a big soccer ball was erected in honor of the World Cup.

MISTI interns fan out across globe

July 5, 2006

Nanotechnology 'fertile' for energy breakthrough

June 30, 2006

Jonathan Kush of the Alabama School of Mathematics and Science tinkers with his team's anti-mine robot system. To research their project, the nine team members visited the humanitarian demining training center at Fort Leonard Wood, Mo.

High school students showcase inventions

June 28, 2006

MIT President Susan Hockfield gives her charge to the graduates at MIT's 140th Commencement exercises held Friday, June 9 in Killian Court.

President Hockfield's charge to the graduates

June 9, 2006

MIT graduates Class of 2006

Ben S. Bernanke, chair of the Federal Reserve, delivers principal address

June 9, 2006

Mike Tannila's film 'Futuro: A New Stance for Tomorrow' documents the rise and fall of the plastic Futuro house designed by architect Matti Suuronen, shown in this still from the movie. The film will be screened Thursday, June 8, in Bartos Theater.

List Center presents futuristic Finnish films

June 7, 2006

In comic relief, Doonesbury's coming to MIT

May 26, 2006

Experts discuss 'tomorrow's crisis'

May 17, 2006

Solar power can be tapped through chemistry, Nocera says

May 15, 2006

Professor John Kassakian examines a thermophotovoltaic device late last month with, from left, doctoral students Ivan Celanovic and Natalija Jovanovic.

Team revamps energy system for fuel-efficiency

May 15, 2006

Lord John Browne, group chief executive of BP, center, discusses issues of principle and profit with David Morgenthaler, founding partner of Morgenthaler, left, and Daniel Vasella, chairman and CEO of Novartis AG, at the MIT Faculty Club on Tuesday, May 2.

CEOs keep eyes on the big picture

May 10, 2006

Student research in the spotlight