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Measure for Measure

What makes scientists productive? To find out, economists with MIT links are researching the researchers.

Rethinking Autopilot

Former U.S. Navy fighter pilot Missy Cummings works to design safer, more intuitive control systems.
By Morgan Bettex

Choosing to Climb

Indefatigable, George Heller '59 survived the Holocaust and forged a career in computer science.

77 Mass Ave.

Weather in a Tank

A curriculum built around a rotating-tank experiment could improve climate education

Nanotech on the Farm

Professor puts materials science to use in rural Africa

Liquid Locomotion

Controlling the spread of fluids

Portable Desalination

Fresh water, one droplet at a time

WD-40 for Micromachines

Calculating the effects of Casimir forces

Changing Minds

Disrupting brain activity with magnets can alter moral judgments

Meet the Author

Green Days

The environmental movement's seminal fight to save an English lake

Seen on Campus

Physics Rocks

Alumni Connection

Inspirational Teachers

When educators transform lives

Meet Anne Street '69, SM '72

New Alumni Association president to orchestrate strategic plan

Alumni Letters

Letters

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The House of the Day After Tomorrow

A 1948 solar house designed by (gasp!) women

My View

Technology's Ambassador

My year volunteering at the MIT Museum

Donor Profile

Nancy Burdine

Lexington, MA

Puzzle Corner

Puzzle Corner
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