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George Hart poses with one of his geometric sculptures.

'Polyhedron Man' to share his passions at MIT

October 29, 2003

$Professor Michael Yaffe loads a tiny protein crystal onto an X-ray diffractometer machine to study its structure.$

New breast cancer gene mechanism found

October 29, 2003

$Professor Michael Yaffe loads a tiny protein crystal onto an X-ray diffractometer machine in order to study its structure.$

MIT researchers find new mechanism behind ovarian, breast cancer gene

October 23, 2003

Father and son share love of art, computer science

October 8, 2003

Erik Demaine solved the "carpenter's rule problem."

22-year-old professor wins MacArthur grant

October 8, 2003

Professor wins "genius" grant

October 6, 2003

New center to study aircraft noise, emissions

October 1, 2003

Dark gamma-ray bursts are more flighty than shy, astronomers find

September 17, 2003

NIH grant aids MIT systems biology

September 15, 2003

MIT-led team: dark gamma-ray bursts more flighty than shy

September 12, 2003

Scientists and students from around the world gathered in Crete, Greece, this summer for a workshop on self-assembling peptides and proteins. Many of the group took an afternoon trip to Knossos, the architectural ruins of a Minoan palace inhabited in 1450 B.C.

Peptides: the 21st century's building blocks

Versatility puts them on brink of widespread use

September 10, 2003

Special bond links scientists and their peptides

New scientific field poised for widespread applications

September 3, 2003

Edwin L. Thomas (above), professor of materials science and director of the Institute for Soldier Nanotechnology, interspersed a little personal with the academic and professional in his talk, and won over the audience of incoming freshmen (below) in the process.

Freshmen urged to 'blur the boundary'

August 27, 2003

Many gamma-ray bursts go undetected, MIT mathematician estimates

August 12, 2003

A water strider passes over a layer of water that has been dyed blue and lit from below, illuminating the stopping vortices shed during the deceleration phase of the strider's motion.

MIT leaps to solution of walking-on-water mystery

August 6, 2003

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