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Cement’s basic molecular structure finally decoded

Robustness comes from messiness, not a clean geometric arrangement

September 9, 2009

MIT alumnus Buzz Aldrin PhD '63 descends NASA's Lunar Module on July 20, 1969, just prior to becoming the second human to walk on the moon.

Landing Apollo via Cambridge

Former MIT Instrumentation Lab member recalls his contribution to the safe landing of Apollo 11 on the lunar surface.

July 17, 2009

MIT President Susan Hockfield shakes hands with MIT alum Buzz Aldrin ScD '63.

In space, past is prologue

Giant Leaps celebrates Apollo, looks to future missions.

June 12, 2009

Photo exhibit highlights water wheel history, design

November 19, 2008

Professor Janet Sonenberg, Chairman of Music and Theater Arts

From 'silence' to science

MIT-rooted play to premiere next month in London

October 28, 2008

Louise Mead of the National Center for Science Education, speaks to an MIT audience on the movement against the teaching of evolution.

Lecture examines anti-evolution movement

Run-up to 200th anniversary of Darwin's birth

September 12, 2008

A typist wears a mask in New York during the 'Spanish flu' influenza pandemic of 1918. A new study by MIT graduate student Peter Doshi finds that death rates in pandemic seasons were no higher than--and were sometimes exceeded by--those for severe nonpandemic seasons.

Study challenges notion of 'pandemic' flu

CDC-labeled pandemics no deadlier than seasonal influenza

April 11, 2008

Ford International Professor of History and Pulitzer Prize winner John Dower delivers the Killian lecture at Kirsch Auditorium on Monday, April 7.

Dower probes 'cultures of war' in Killian award lecture

April 9, 2008

From left, MIT freshman Daniel Sauza, sophomore Stephanie Brown and seniors Ceryen Tan and Joyce Chen (in mask) work with materials science and nuclear engineering professor Linn Hobbs to cover limestone blocks with mortar as they build up their pyramid on the sixth floor of Building 16.

Gathering 'concrete' evidence

MIT class explores controversial pyramid theory with scale model

April 2, 2008

Dower to deliver Killian Award lecture April 7

April 2, 2008

Theodore Lilienthal's photos, examined in a new book by MIT's Gary Van Zante, presented post-war New Orleans businesses as good investment opportunities, bustling yet orderly. Pictured here is the Drummond & Doig Foundry. <a onclick="MM_openBrWindow('nola-boiler-enlarged.html','','width=509, height=583')">
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Looking back at the Big Easy

April 1, 2008

Professor of Archeology and Ancient Technology Dorothy Hosler, back left on the raft, helps row a raft built by four of her students in 2004. Leslie Dewan, standing, recently worked with Hosler to show how similar rafts carried goods through the Americas before the arrival of the Europeans.

Floating a big idea

MIT demonstrates pre-Columbian use of rafts to transport goods

March 19, 2008

'Four-winged dinosaur' soars in MIT wind tunnel

March 6, 2008

Broken amphoras amid debris on the Aegean seafloor.

Cask from the past

Team IDs ancient cargo from DNA

October 29, 2007

Ben Wood, a second-year graduate student in visual arts in the Department of Architecture, with some of his notes on Diego Rivera's mural "Man at the Crossroads."

Grad student revives Rivera's 1933 mural

June 13, 2007

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