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Former Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards gives one of the opening keynote addresses at a student-organized conference on global poverty held at MIT April 18-20.

Edwards urges students to make themselves heard

Conference hears about ways to fight global poverty

April 18, 2008

Tomorrow's soldier: powered, spring-loaded and located

Annual competition showcases innovative ideas

April 18, 2008

Angelika Amon, an MIT biology professor, reports new insights into the role of proteins in cell division, work that could shed light on why errors occur during this process.

Protein role in cell division re-evaluated by MIT researchers

Work could impact study of miscarriages, birth defects

April 17, 2008

Conference asks 'what's the use of race?'

April 17, 2008

New MIT study validates hurricane prediction

Provides confirmation that climate change intensifies storms

April 17, 2008

Edward Lorenz, father of chaos theory and butterfly effect, dies at 90

April 16, 2008

A representation of different estimated annual carbon footprints. Government services were a major reason for the relatively large U.S. average, according to an MIT class led by Professor Timothy Gutowski of mechanical engineering.

Leaving our mark

MIT class tracks carbon footprint of different lifestyles; finds even the smallest U.S. footprints are relatively large

April 16, 2008

An artist's rendering of the proposed carbon-neutral community being developed in Abu Dhabi.

A blueprint for no carbon footprint

April 16, 2008

News that oozes: Panelists tackle challenges of communicating climate change

April 16, 2008

Interview with the dean: Deborah Fitzgerald, SHASS

April 15, 2008

MIT brimming over with energy

Conference showcases a sustainable future

April 14, 2008

Keeril Makan, assistant professor of music, has won the Rome Prize for 2008-2009.

MIT's Makan wins Rome Prize

April 11, 2008

Figure illustrates "lab on a chip" technique developed by MIT researchers to allow immobilization and imaging of a live C. elegans worm: (a-i) worm moves freely in chip's microfluidic channel; (a-ii) partial immobilization of worm; (a-iii) full immobilization; (b) low magnification image of worm immobilized in the device; (c) close-up of immobilized worm showing animal's neurons (fluorescent).

Live-animal nerve regeneration study gets a boost

MIT team refines optical 'lab on a chip'

April 10, 2008

MIT economist Amy Finkelstein has found that when toll authorities implement electronic toll collection systems like E-ZPass, toll rates begin to creep up more than they would have under the old manual toll system.

Life in the FastLane

MIT economist finds E-ZPass program hides tax hikes

April 9, 2008

Would you steal a buck? How about a can of soda?

Dan Ariely probes how people make decisions in his new book, 'Predictably Irrational'

April 9, 2008

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Tomorrow's soldier: powered, spring-loaded and located

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New MIT study validates hurricane prediction

Edward Lorenz, father of chaos theory and butterfly effect, dies at 90

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A blueprint for no carbon footprint

News that oozes: Panelists tackle challenges of communicating climate change

Interview with the dean: Deborah Fitzgerald, SHASS

MIT brimming over with energy

MIT's Makan wins Rome Prize

Live-animal nerve regeneration study gets a boost

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