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If Da Vinci Had an Electron Microscope…

MIT Dome at night

QS World University Rankings rates MIT No. 1 in 12 subjects for 2016

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MIT Scholar Hails Haiti’s New Teaching Policy

Medical Anthropology

Erica Caple James investigates how behavior, culture, and structural inequalities impact health.

Debra Wise, Robert Najarian, and Steven Barkhimer in the 2007 CC@MIT production of Alan Lightman’s Einstein’s Dreams. Photo: Elizabeth Stewart/Libberding Photography

Physicist and Novelist Alan Lightman Looks Back on a Decade of Science on Stage

Tonio Buonassisi Photo: M. Scott Brauer

MIT and Brazilian Researchers Team up on Solar Energy, Health, and More

Seth Mnookin is an associate professor of science writing at MIT and author of the 2011 book The Panic Virus. Image: Seth Mnookin/MIT News

Data Needed to Dispel Vaccine Fears—But Not the Kind You Think

Image: Tom O'Grady

The Scottish Referendum: What It Means

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Maybe the “M” in MIT Stands for “Medieval”

Professor Bahr was photographed in the Libraries’ Wunsch Conservation Laboratory, with a 15th-century Book of Hours. The manuscript volume was donated to the Institute Archives and Special Collections by I. Austin Kelly (MIT 1926). Photo: Bryce Vickmark

Can You Solve this Old English Riddle From MIT?