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Based on quantum mechanical calculations, MIT researchers have developed this series of pictures showing how sulfur dioxide on a platinum catalyst converts to sulfur trioxide--a compound that poisons advanced catalytic converters for new fuel-efficient engines. Platinum atoms of the catalyst's surface appear as blue spheres, oxygen atoms are black and the sulfur atom is white. In successive pictur...

Atomic insight may lead to cleaner cars

September 24, 2003

Construction on telecom project begins on Main and Ames streets

September 24, 2003

Deborah Douglas, science and technology curator at the MIT Museum, examines one of the thermometers (held by Professor of Mechanical Engineering John H. Lienhard) stored for more than a century in the chest behind them.

Old thermometers make temp job for MIT Museum

September 24, 2003

Monica de Silva of Antwerp, Belgium, plays the recurring dream character Uda in "Somnambulations."

Dreamy exhibit on view at Rotch Library

September 17, 2003

Dancer Alexandra Beller is a "dance goddess ... a woman of substance who moves like mercury," wrote one critic.

Dancer visits MIT

September 17, 2003

Universities must help sustain local biotech

September 17, 2003

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September 17, 2003

Vest, Brown address budget

September 17, 2003

Dreyfus renewed

September 17, 2003

Tom Pasquini (left) and Aaron Leanhardt in front of the machine where they and collaborators cooled a sodium gas to 500 picokelvin.

MIT scientists achieve the biggest chill

September 17, 2003

"If he were not a monk, he would have liked to have been an engineer."

Dalai Lama enlists science in quest for 'a happy mind'

Tibet leader sounds playful note in serious pursuits

September 17, 2003

Buddhist monks gather outside Kresge Auditorium.

Dalai Lama enlists science in quest for 'a happy mind'

Monk links mental imagery, meditation

September 17, 2003

During a discussion of mental imagery that was part of a two-day conference at MIT featuring the Dalai Lama and prominent scientists, Stephen M. Kosslyn of Harvard asked the Dalai Lama what he saw in this sketch, pointing out that some people see a duck while others see a rabbit. The Dalai Lama saw both.

Dalai Lama enlists science in quest for 'a happy mind'

Dalai Lama notes potential of science

September 17, 2003

The Dalai Lama was given a tour of the Whitehead Institute/MIT Center for Genome Research by biology professor Eric Lander (right), head of the Genome Center and the Broad Institute. Yama Chompel (left) a Tibetan, instructs the Dalai Lama in pipetting isopropel into mouse DNA in the lab. Next to the Dalai Lama is his translator, Thupton Jinpa.

Dalai Lama enlists science in quest for 'a happy mind'

Buddhism, science share curiosity about the world

September 17, 2003

Digitalk: Where IT's At

September 17, 2003

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Construction on telecom project begins on Main and Ames streets

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Dreamy exhibit on view at Rotch Library

Dancer visits MIT

Universities must help sustain local biotech

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Vest, Brown address budget

Dreyfus renewed

MIT scientists achieve the biggest chill

Dalai Lama enlists science in quest for 'a happy mind'

Dalai Lama enlists science in quest for 'a happy mind'

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