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Deborah Douglas, curator of science and technology for the MIT Museum, sprawls among some of the 600 historic slide rules that were recently donated to the museum.

MIT Museum measures up

January 11, 2005

From left, MIT juniors Benjamin Schwartz and Sean Markan, alumna Natalia Toro, and sophomore Chintan Hossain enjoy themselves during a banquet at the Physics for Tomorrow conference held in Paris.

MIT students and alumna represent U.S. at historic physics conference

January 11, 2005

Astronomers have discovered evidence for physics beyond Einstein's general relativity. This artist's conception shows a galactic black hole being orbited by a ripple in spacetime--a distortion in the fabric of space itself.

Spacetime wave orbits black hole

January 10, 2005

Study reviews supply chain prophesies

January 10, 2005

Poetry explored daily during January

January 10, 2005

In these endometriosis lesions from the mouse model of endometriosis, both endometriotic glands (arrow) and stroma (arrowhead) are shown.

Endometriosis and ovarian cancer modeled in mouse

January 7, 2005

Charles Stewart

Stewart named head of political science department

January 7, 2005

Cells that have damaged DNA in their nuclei (gray dots) normally stop dividing. However, the two cells for which MAPKAP Kinase-2 activity has been inhibited still undergo cell division (red stain), even in the presence of DNA damage (green stain).

MIT team aims to reduce chemo doses

January 6, 2005

MIT postdoc Sanith Wijesinghe was planning to travel to his home country of Sri Lanka on Jan. 6 to help with relief efforts.

In wake of tsunami, MIT reaches out to community, raises funds for victims

January 5, 2005

MIT teaching assistant Wes Austin and his girlfriend, Tanya Stankunas, hold a chocolate bar that miraculously survived the fire in their apartment.

Burned-out but diligent, a TA gets help from his students

January 5, 2005

Senior wins national math prize for his work in combinatorics

January 3, 2005

Exhibit examines origins of infamous housing project

December 20, 2004

Schematic shows the 25.4-meter Giant Magellan Telescope next to a 6.5-meter Magellan telescope. The 83-foot giant telescope is as wide as an eight-story building is tall.

Giant telescope will keep an eye on planets in other solar systems

December 17, 2004

John Dower, the Ford International Professor of History, recipient of a 2004 Mellon Distinguished Achievement Award.

History professor John Dower awarded Mellon prize

December 17, 2004

A student DJ's attempt to personalize "Yeah," Usher's 2004 hit, is tougher than it looks. With one hand on the mixer and the other spinning the record back, the student tries to juggle the beat between two recordings of the same song.

Scratching your LPs isn't always a bad thing

December 15, 2004