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Pedro Reis, an instructor in applied mathematics at MIT, and colleagues have reported the formulation and physics behind the pattern created by adhesive tearing. In this image, Reis demonstrates the way that adhesive tape tears in a triangular shape coming a point.

Researchers make a point of explaining 'the wallpaper problem'

March 30, 2008

Engineering again tops U.S. News graduate rankings

March 28, 2008

CDC chief Gerberding to speak at MIT April 2

March 28, 2008

MIT third overall in Putnam math competition

March 27, 2008

Schmill named new dean of admissions

March 24, 2008

Bringing a bit of MIT to Africa

March 19, 2008

Author-illustrator Macaulay to speak at MIT April 1

March 19, 2008

Senior research scientist Jay Kesner stands by the now-operational LDX fusion reactor, in which a series of experiments are being run.

MIT tests unique approach to fusion power

Mimicking Earth's magnetic field in a giant thermos bottle

March 19, 2008

Brokaw to deliver Compton lecture April 2

March 19, 2008

Professor of Archeology and Ancient Technology Dorothy Hosler, back left on the raft, helps row a raft built by four of her students in 2004. Leslie Dewan, standing, recently worked with Hosler to show how similar rafts carried goods through the Americas before the arrival of the Europeans.

Floating a big idea

MIT demonstrates pre-Columbian use of rafts to transport goods

March 19, 2008

Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences Professor Richard Binzel, and graduate student Cristina Thomas, are doing remote observing of asteroids using a NASA IRTF telescope in Hawaii that they are controlling from MIT. They are assisted by Paul Sears (on TV screen), a research associate in Hawaii.

Eyes on the stars, even under cloudy skies

March 19, 2008

An artist's representation of a proposed satellite that would be used to view distant planets. A planet is transiting a star in the background.

MIT aims to search for Earth-like planets with Google's help

March 19, 2008

Erik Demaine, left, the Esther and Harold Edgerton Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering, and his father, CSAIL visiting scientist Martin Demaine, model a couple of their sculptures in a Museum of Modern Art show titled 'Design and the Elastic Mind,' which runs until early May.

New York exhibits showcase MIT's arts clout

March 18, 2008

Suzanne Berger, MIT professor of political science, cites global competition as a reason why 'people in our own society worry about what China, India, and the emergence of yet other countries means for our jobs and our children. But how could we really desire the alternative, which is a world where billions of people remain stuck on the bottom of the ladder?' She is one of the interviewees in Andr...

Book, exhibit showcase MIT faculty and their visions for the future

March 18, 2008

Dean of the School of Engineering, Subra Suresh.

Interview with the dean: Subra Suresh, School of Engineering

March 17, 2008

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Schmill named new dean of admissions

Bringing a bit of MIT to Africa

Author-illustrator Macaulay to speak at MIT April 1

MIT tests unique approach to fusion power

Brokaw to deliver Compton lecture April 2

Floating a big idea

Eyes on the stars, even under cloudy skies

MIT aims to search for Earth-like planets with Google's help

New York exhibits showcase MIT's arts clout

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