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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

A shot in a scene from Nishima Chudasama's interview with Jeff Morris, a Vietnam veteran she filmed as part of an IAP class that encouraged participants to seek out untold stories in the Boston area.

Who Lives Here?

Actress puts MIT class behind the camera

January 28, 2009

Darwin lives

MIT conference marks famed naturalist's 200th birthday

January 28, 2009

Physicists discover surprising variation in superconductors

Work may lead to understanding of new class of materials

January 27, 2009

Berger receives French Legion of Honor medal

January 27, 2009

Researchers at CSAIL are developing a remotely commandable, semi-autonomous robotic forklift designed to move cargo in dangerous places.

Robo-forklift keeps humans out of harm's way

Could allow military to handle supplies without risk to people

January 21, 2009

The role of race

Voting analysis shows Obama won because of his support among blacks.

January 20, 2009

J-PAL captures major new international award

Frontiers of Knowledge prize carries purse worth more than $500,000

January 20, 2009

Nitric oxide shown to cause colon cancer

Study offers proof of compound's role in disease

January 19, 2009

Chemistry graduate student Weerawat Runguphan, left, Sarah E. O'Connor, Latham Family Career Development Associate Professor of Chemistry, rear, and chemistry graduate student Peter Bernhardt, right, in lab where they genetically engineered periwinkle plant cells.

Chemists engineer plants to produce new compounds

Periwinkle plant cells could synthesize potential drugs

January 18, 2009

MIT conference celebrates Darwin bicentennial

January 16, 2009

Astronomers crack longstanding lunar mystery

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

January 15, 2009

CIS scholars offer advice, new ideas to Obama

January 14, 2009

Executive vice-president and treasurer, and co-chair of the Campus Energy Task Force Theresa Stone spoke at the "Come Walk the Talk...on Energy" marking the beginning of energy week to launch Greening MIT, a community campaign for responsible use of energy and natural resources on campus.

Going green saves MIT green

January 13, 2009

Patrick J. McGovern Professor of Information Systems in the School of Management and Director of CCI Thomas W. Malone.

Putting heads (and computers) together to solve global problems

MIT's Center for Collective Intelligence (CCI) looks to take advantage of strength in numbers