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Steven Shannon, operations manager and MR research technologist at MIT, with the 9.4 Tesla MRI machine in the Martinos Imaging Center at the McGovern Institute.

New high-resolution MRI machine comes to MIT

July 31, 2007

Professor Ian Hunter (standing), post-doc James Tangorra and colleagues in MIT's Bioinstrumentation Lab are working to create a robotic version of the bluegill sunfish's fin. Such a robotic fin, like the one Tangorra is holding, could improve the maneuverability of autonomous underwater vehicles.

MIT team building robotic fin for submarines

July 30, 2007

Douglas Lauffenburger, director of Biological Engineering, with a schematic of the intracellular "information-processing" circuit on the monitor in front of him.

MIT model could predict cells' response to drugs

Work could lead to targeted therapies

July 26, 2007

Alex Nickerson is at bat as Jordan Smith pitches to him on Briggs Field at MIT. The two middle school students are participating in MIT's summer Science of Baseball program, which, each morning, teaches them things like how a curve ball works and how to calculate player statistics. In the afternoon, they put their new knowledge to work on the field.

MIT baseball program hits home run for learning

Schooling the boys of summer in math, science

July 26, 2007

MIT lecturers top the iTunes U top ten

July 25, 2007

Thaddeus Jusczyk and James Graham at the Holcim Forum 2007 awards ceremony. The two MIT students won first place for their plan to harness the energy of crowds.

MIT duo sees people-powered "Crowd Farm"

Plan would harvest energy of human movement

July 25, 2007

Stephen Ansolabehere in MIT's Power Plant Facility

Americans warming to nuclear power - MIT survey

July 23, 2007

Professor Ray Ashoori, left, and post-doc Oliver Dial have developed a new spectroscopy method that has about 1,000 times finer resolution than other methods. They are shown above in the lab with a dilution refrigerator that they are customizing to continue the work - this refrigerator will allow them to go colder with their experiments, which would allow even better resolution.

MIT physicists get ultra-sharp glimpse of electrons

July 20, 2007

Development Initiative wins Lemelson Grant

July 18, 2007

Beth Raffeld is MIT's senior director of philanthropic partnerships

July 18, 2007

Paul Huang, graduate student in biological engineering, left, and Professor Forest White of biological engineering with a mass spectrometer showing the electrospray ionization tip of a liquid chromatography column. Samples are loaded on the column and electrosprayed into the mass spectrometer, where their mass and sequence is identified, allowing White and Huang to analyze the sample.

Brain discovery could fight deadly tumors

July 18, 2007

Li-Huei Tsai, Picower Professor of Neuroscience

MIT IDs mechanism behind fear

Work could lead to first drug for post-traumatic stress disorder

July 15, 2007

Amy Smith, one of the lead organizers of the International Development Design Summit

Making a difference in the developing world

International summit at MIT aims for real solutions

July 13, 2007

The Digital Water Pavilion at the 2008 World Expo in Zaragoza, Spain will contain an exhibition area, a cafe, and public spaces.

MIT architects design building with 'digital water' walls

Pavilion is set to make a splash in Spain

July 10, 2007

Team reports genetic link between aging, neurodegenerative disorders

Work could lead to new drugs against Alzheimer's, more

July 9, 2007

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