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Susan Hockfield testifies before the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming on the need to boost energy research funding.

Hockfield urges Congress to unleash 'energy revolution'

Says increased federal R&D funding key to progress

September 10, 2008

The compact muon solenoid (CMS) experiment at CERN's Large Hadron Collider will look for the Higgs boson, shown here in simulation.

MIT awaits data from world's biggest physics experiment

Underground collider comes to life in Europe

September 10, 2008

<a href="http://cvcl.mit.edu/MM/demo.html" target="_blank">Demo of massive memory study</a>

MIT researchers find memory capacity much bigger than previously thought

September 8, 2008

From left, Travis Franck, John Reilly, Valerie Karplus and Noelle Selin, all of the Center for Global Change Science at MIT, pose with their bicycles on Memorial Drive. The four will be part of an MIT group partaking in a ride for climate change awareness from New York City to Washington, D.C.

Weather cycles: Group gears up for climate change awareness ride

September 8, 2008

Bruno Piazzarolo, left, and Alban Cobi, are the first graduates of the John D. O'Bryant School of Math & Science, located in the Roxbury section of Boston, to attend MIT in recent memory.

Boston students get set for their next four years at MIT

September 3, 2008

Graphic shows four radio observatories in Hawaii, Arizona and California linked to create a 2,800-mile-wide virtual telescope.

New virtual telescope zooms in on Milky Way's super-massive black hole

September 3, 2008

Solutions-driven culture draws Fallon to MIT

Veteran of global hot spots to share insights during fall CIS fellowship

September 2, 2008

From left, graduate student YongKeun Park, School of Engineering Dean Subra Suresh, Professor Michael Feld, and postdocs Monica Diez-Silva, George Lykotrafitis and Wonshik Choi stand in the MIT Spectroscopy Laboratory. The group has used microscopy techniques to show in unprecedented detail how the malaria parasite attacks red blood cells.

MIT zooms in on malaria-infected cells

Work could aid in diagnostics, drug testing

September 1, 2008

A sign indicating a hurricane evacuation route near Boca Raton, Florida.

Saving lives through smarter hurricane evacuations

MIT student's software seen aiding emergency officials' decision-making

August 28, 2008

Chiang challenges freshmen to follow their passions

August 26, 2008

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Invoking da Vinci, Hockfield welcomes class of 2012

August 25, 2008

MIT associate professor Josh Tenenbaum and his former student, Charles Kemp, have developed a computer algorithm that can select the best type of structure to fit a set of data. Such structures, shown here, include linear order, rings and clusters.

MIT model helps computers sort data more like humans

August 25, 2008

U.S. News ranks MIT 4th overall among U.S. universities

August 22, 2008

An MIT project aimed at monitoring owls in their natural environment is growing into an international collaboration on how to use widespread networks of citizen-scientists to gain new insights into a wide variety of species.

Call of the wild

MIT project aims to understand owls and other wildlife

August 22, 2008

Andy Wijaya, an MIT graduate student in chemical engineering, prepares a gold nanorod solution for pump-probe spectroscopy with (standing, left to right) postdoc Aaron Schmidt and professors Gang Chen and Kimberly Hamad-Schifferli observing.

Beyond jewelry: Engineering new uses for gold

MIT researchers see precious metal's value in war on cancer, other applications

August 22, 2008

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