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The Six Degrees Interactive Table glows when guests seated at the table have common interests. Image: MIT Mobile Media Lab

App Connects Fellow Travelers in the Hotel Lobby

Physicist Allan Adams explains the Big Bang theory, with assistance from comic strip xkcd. Photo: James Duncan Davidson/TED

MIT All-Stars Shine at TED’s 30th

lithium ion battery and AA battery

In Search of a Better Battery

A replica of the Eiffel Tower and the Form 1 3D printer that created it.

3-D printer company is taking digital fabrication to the next level

sun space

How Space Weather Affects Communication

Jukebox

Remote Control Jukebox

Founded by two MIT alumni in their dorm, Pixable now has 5 million users

Carter Jernigan

Where is he now? Carter Jernigan ’07

Enigma machine used during World War II

Creating an Uncrackable Code

Joao Ribas is curator of the List Visual Arts Center. Photo: Len Rubenstein

Spring 2013

In the Holocene

Joao Ribas, curator of MIT’s List Visual Arts Center, discusses a recent exhibition that explores art as a speculative science.