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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

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

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

MIT zeroes in on Alzheimer's structures

Work could lead to new drugs for the common disease

August 21, 2008

From left, MIT professors Yet-Ming Chiang, Angela Belcher and Paula Hammond. The three have authored a paper detailing their virus-based method of creating and installing microbatteries by stamping them onto a variety of surfaces.

MIT engineers work toward cell-sized batteries

Microbatteries could power tomorrow's miniature devices

August 20, 2008

Understanding climate change complacency

Sloan's Sterman sees flawed reasoning at root of problem

August 20, 2008

Candidates' energy policies fuel economist's commentary

A Q&A with MIT Professor Robert Pindyck

August 19, 2008

HST's Karp among Technology Review's top young innovators

August 19, 2008

Building microchips from the bottom up

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

August 14, 2008

Meteorite 00506, found in Antractica in 2000.

MIT solves puzzle of meteorite-asteroid link

New analysis makes it possible to 'know our enemy'

August 13, 2008

Amid food price spike, Nobel laureate eyes fertilizer

MIT chemist Schrock seeks to streamline production

August 13, 2008

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MIT model helps computers sort data more like humans

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

Beyond jewelry: Engineering new uses for gold

Call of the wild

MIT zeroes in on Alzheimer's structures

MIT engineers work toward cell-sized batteries

Understanding climate change complacency

Candidates' energy policies fuel economist's commentary

HST's Karp among Technology Review's top young innovators

Building microchips from the bottom up

MIT solves puzzle of meteorite-asteroid link

Amid food price spike, Nobel laureate eyes fertilizer

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