» Zipporah Levinson, Department of Mathematics’ ‘den mother,’ dies at age 93
05/02/10 17:02 from MIT News: Mathematics
Zipporah “Fagi” Levinson, the wife of the late Institute Professor Norman Levinson ’34, SM ’34, SCD ’35, died on Dec. 11, 2009, at the age of 93 after numerous strokes and pneumonia. In the book Recou..
» Record-breaking collisions
05/02/10 05:00 from MIT News: Physics
In December, the Large Hadron Collider, the world’s largest particle accelerator, shattered the world record for highest energy particle collisions. This week, team led by researchers from MIT, CERN a..
» 3 Questions: David Mindell on Obama’s NASA proposal
05/02/10 05:00 from MIT News: Space, astronomy and planetary science
In 2008, David Mindell, the Frances and David Dibner Professor of the History of Engineering and Manufacturing and director of MIT’s Program in Science, Technology, and Society, was the lead author o..
» Powering cube satellites
03/02/10 05:01 from MIT News: Physics
Right now, 10 to 15 Rubik’s Cube-sized satellites are orbiting high above Earth. Known as cube satellites, or “CubeSats,” the devices help researchers conduct simple space observations and measure cha..
» Gaining visibility into campus buildings’ real-time energy performance
29/01/10 14:13 from MIT News: Biology
Although energy use can account for up to 70 percent of an MIT building’s operating cost, exactly where and why that consumption occurs is not obvious. And when a blip in a building’s internal working..