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Reactor upgrades help researchers study nuclear fusion as energy source

February 8, 2007

MIT experts foresee sustainable ethanol production

February 8, 2007

Graduate student Manu Prakash (left) and Professor Neil Gershenfeld discuss new applications for their microfluidic chips, which can carry on-chip process control information.

Flow of tiny bubbles mimics computer circuitry

Work could boost capabilities of 'labs on a chip'

February 8, 2007

Postdocs' series explores hype and hope of a hydrogen economy

February 7, 2007

Seuss fans unite for 17th annual fete

February 6, 2007

Postdoc Peter Rakich worked with MIT colleagues to develp a novel way to add the power and speed of light waves to traditional electronics.

MIT 'optics on a chip' may revolutionize telecom, computing

Research integrates photonic circuitry on a silicon chip

February 6, 2007

Report: Human activity fuels global warming

February 2, 2007

PBS' 'Living Weapon' film features MIT expert on U.S. biological weapons program

February 2, 2007

Miranda Knutson, who graduated from the history program at MIT last spring, pins a hood being fitted for Tim Abbott, a senior in mathematics and electrical engineering and computer science. The two were participants in an MIT IAP class on the technology of medieval clothes creation. <a onclick="MM_openBrWindow('medieval-hood-enlarged.html','','width=509, height=583')">
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IAP 'Distaff Arts' students learn production, politics of medieval wool clothing

January 30, 2007

Physicist recommends US develop 'portfolio of fuels, electricity and efficiency'

Expert likens scalability of current alternative energy technologies to wild animals: fuzzy and cute when they're small, impractical at a large scale

January 29, 2007

Three Mile Island--failure of science or spin?

An IAP session reviews the 1979 crisis

January 26, 2007

Image at left shows process of detecting and destroying an enemy missile using MIT targeted radar. Microwave energy is fixed on a missile while simultaneously nullifying enemy jammers. On right, microwave energy is aimed at a cancerous tumor with a deep focused beam while simultaneously nullifying any energy that would overheat surrounding healthy tissue.

New book documents MIT breast cancer therapy

January 26, 2007

Lauffenburger wins 2007 Galletti award

January 26, 2007

CEHS hosts gene-environment symposium Jan. 26

January 24, 2007

Cynthia Breazeal, MIT Media Lab, faces Kismet, a robot that mimics emotion. This photo is from 2000. <a onclick="MM_openBrWindow('coveney-kismet-enlarged.html','','width=509, height=583')">
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'Heart of MIT' opens in Compton Gallery

January 24, 2007

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Reactor upgrades help researchers study nuclear fusion as energy source

MIT experts foresee sustainable ethanol production

Flow of tiny bubbles mimics computer circuitry

Postdocs' series explores hype and hope of a hydrogen economy

Seuss fans unite for 17th annual fete

MIT 'optics on a chip' may revolutionize telecom, computing

Report: Human activity fuels global warming

PBS' 'Living Weapon' film features MIT expert on U.S. biological weapons program

IAP 'Distaff Arts' students learn production, politics of medieval wool clothing

Physicist recommends US develop 'portfolio of fuels, electricity and efficiency'

Three Mile Island--failure of science or spin?

New book documents MIT breast cancer therapy

Lauffenburger wins 2007 Galletti award

CEHS hosts gene-environment symposium Jan. 26

'Heart of MIT' opens in Compton Gallery

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