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Satellite images show the New York City area about 20 hours before (left) and 7 hours after the blackout of Aug. 13, 2003. MIT economist Paul Joskow explains that such blackouts are usually caused by problems with power distribution and equipment, not power shortages.

Electricity blackouts: A hot summer topic

Economist explains why heat waves spur blackouts

August 8, 2006

Students honor 'Big Jimmy' with scholarship fund

August 8, 2006

Professor explores Alzheimer's causes

August 8, 2006

MIT research engineer Joseph Curcio, left, helps launch a SCOUT for experiments conducted off the island of Pianosa, Italy, in July 2005.

Kayaks adapted to test marine robotics

August 7, 2006

High school girls visiting MIT for the You Go Girl! program learned about genetics using fish built of Legos. After learning about meiosis and mitosis, sperm and eggs, the girls made their own generations of fish, discovering something about phenotypes and recessive and dominant genes along the way.

Edgerton program's message is You Go Girl!

August 4, 2006

Broad talk illuminates genetics

August 4, 2006

Interfaith group gets boost from U.S.

August 4, 2006

MIT Institute Professor Robert Langer poses with Red Sox mascot Wally the Green Monster before throwing out the ceremonial first pitch at Fenway Park on July 28.

It's a strike! Langer pitches one in for Sox

August 3, 2006

MIT researchers uncover basis for perceptual learning

August 2, 2006

Physicist Wen receives grant for gravity work

August 2, 2006

Max Mitchell of Las Vegas holds his team's entry in the underwater robot competition held in the Alumni Pool on July 28, the finale of this year's MITES program. His team, Los Pepos, won the underwater Quidditch match, but not the overall robot competition. <a onclick="MM_openBrWindow('mites1-enlarged.html','','width=509, height=583')">
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MITES makes a splash with robots

August 1, 2006

Summer program reaches young researchers

July 31, 2006

Sloan Kulper (S.B. 2003) and Audrey Roy (S.B. 2005) have designed a building in the shape of a cell for the Institute for Nanobiomedical Technology and Membrane Biology in Chengdu, China. This illustration shows the exterior in daytime. Protrusions in the facade provide meeting areas attached directly to interior laboratories.

Three at MIT conceive cell-shaped building

Novel architecture planned for institute in China

July 28, 2006

Residence halls plan block party July 29

July 28, 2006

MIT researchers watch brain in action

July 27, 2006

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