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Self-oscillating gelsSelf-oscillating gels are materials that continuously change back and forth between different states — such as color or size — without provocation...
IceWallAs part of the Festival of Art, Science and Technology the IceWall instillation consists of blocks of ice stacked on each other, with seeds frozen in ...
Green GreaseStudents from MIT's Biodiesel team organizes the project, called Green Grease, and they traveled to Sao Paulo, Brazil last summer to begin the impleme...
Remembering Ron McNair
Video: Melanie Gonick; still images: NASA
On the 25th anniversary of the Challenger Space Shuttle disaster, AeroAstro professor Jeffrey Hoffman remembers his colleague.
- Li-Huei Tsai, director of the Picower Institute for Learning and Memory
- Graduate student winners (from top left): Marcus Parrish (first place); Anthony Soltis and Fabio Caiazzo (second-place tie); and Bridget Wall and Jun Jie Ian Tay (third-place tie). Postdoctoral scholar winners (from bottom left): Bogdan Fedeles (first place); Zachary Nagel (second place); and Nicole M. Iverson and Stephanie E. Woods (third-place tie).
- An artist's impression depicting a network of neurons of the nervous system.
- Stephen Lippard is the Arthur Amos Noyes Professor of Chemistry at MIT
- In this atomic force microscope image, the rings of light-harvesting complex 2 (LH2) are seen on the surface membrane of a purple bacterium. The arrangement of these complexes, as well as their shapes, help to make them extremely efficient at collecting the energy from light.
- To determine the location of ALKBH7 in cells, MIT researchers engineered these cells to express ALKBH7 bound to green fluorescent protein (GFP). The cells’ mitochondria express a red fluorescent protein. In cells where ALKBH7 is present in the mitochondria, the green and red signals mix and appear yellow.
- Henry Molaison at age 60
- Henry Molaison in 1953
- A satellite image of Maupiti, one of the Society Islands, which is on its way to becoming an atoll. Submerged reef appears in pale blue.
- The team's single particle mass spectrometer aboard NASA's WB57
