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MIT's Real Time Rome project, which will have its worldwide debut at the 2006 Venice Biennale, uses cellphone and wireless data to map people in Rome. Here it shows cellular phone users in northeastern Rome at different hours of a day.

MIT Real Time Rome project to debut at Venice Biennale

September 5, 2006

MIT to support creation of international program at Shanghai Jiao Tong University

August 29, 2006

Astronomers revise planet definition

Pluto is now a 'dwarf'

August 24, 2006

MIT-Beijing design studio plans for urban future

Innovative partnership with Tsinghua University celebrates 20 years

August 18, 2006

CIS fellow seeks peace in Sudanese war of identities

August 17, 2006

GEM4 researchers examine facets of diseases

August 16, 2006

World astronomers have redefined what a planet is, resulting in a new view of our solar system as consisting of 12 planets. In this artist rendering, the planets are, from left: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Ceres, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto, Charon and 2003 UB313. The new definitions resulted from work by an International Astronomical Union panel that included MIT Professor Richard Bi...

Astronomers proclaim Pluto is a planet

International group defines new planet category

August 16, 2006

Clock in the rock: MIT geologist leads effort to measure Earth's history

August 14, 2006

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Sun and new fuels power student vehicles

August 14, 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

MIT team plans 8,000-mile adventure

July 20, 2006

MEET to graduate first class in Jerusalem

July 11, 2006

MIT unveils plans for a major new research center in Singapore -- It's SMART!

July 7, 2006

Students help construct a prototype in April 2005 of one of the 500 'tiles' that will make up a new telescope in Australia. Each tile consists of 16 antennas. From left are Jamie Stevens, a graduate student at the University of Melbourne, now at University of Tasmania, and Judd Bowman, a graduate student in physics at MIT.

Telescope to probe early universe, more

July 5, 2006

Senior Alexander Krull is interning at Rolls Royce in Berlin this summer thanks to the MIT International Science and Technology Initiatives, or MISTI program. He is shown in front of the Reichstag, where a big soccer ball was erected in honor of the World Cup.

MISTI interns fan out across globe