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Dumbing down MIT? Smart Street, amidst the new Novartis campus off of Mass. Ave., is closed indefinitely for future construction. Construction is expected to begin in earnest next year.

Admissions Counselor Chris Peterson directs a new MIT Admissions video — a tour of MIT led by Tim the Beaver set to, and incorporating motifs from, the song “Pure Imagination.”

Veggie Galaxy, a vegan diner and bakery, is now open in Central square.

Koichiro Mizoguchi and Junichi Murakami of Japan demonstrate one application of their research by spraying a plate of sushi with aerosolized wasabi at this year’s Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony in Harvard’s Sanders Theatre l...

Julia C. Hsu ’14 volleys the ball back to Tufts in the No. 2 doubles on Tuesday. The Engineers lost the match 7-2.

Maria Ferrante serenades Nobel Laureate Dudley Herschbach (Chemistry 1986) with the joys of caffeine and its importance in coffee during Chemist in a Coffee Shop, this year’s Ig Nobel mini-opera.

Professor Laurence R. Young ScD ’62, from MIT’s Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, learns about some of the features in the Lockheed Martin Joint Strike Fighter simulator — brought to MIT with help from the F...

MacGregor residents were evacuated yesterday for an hour and a half after a steam pipe exploded nearby on Amherst Alley.

Maria Ferrante serenades Nobel Laureate Peter Diamond PhD ’63 (Economics 2010) with the joys of caffeine and its importance in coffee during Chemist in a Coffee Shop, this year’s Ig Nobel mini-opera.

The Clover food truck, located on Carleton St. near the Kendall T-stop, has recently extended its hours and is now open Monday through Saturday from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

The t=0 stage featured Mitch Kapor, founder of Lotus Development Corporation; Brad Feld, the co-founder of Foundry Group and TechStars; Rich Miner, the co-founder of Android; Dharmesh Shah, the founder and CTO of HubS...

Engineers, hackers, and others come together to take part in the Start-Up Lab at t=0 this past weekend. Each team proposed a business solution to a real-world problem: some proposed solutions to help change the educat...

David A. Alfonso ’13 and Iris Xu ’14 sail upwind during the Hatch Brown Trophy regatta this Saturday. The regatta attracted teams from as close as Harvard to as far as the University of Minnesota.

A delicate work of art by Art Politis is showcased at the art gallery at t=0.

This futurist humanoid machine was featured at the art gallery space at t=0, the entrepreneurship conference that took place at MIT this past weekend. Engineers, scientists, architects, inventors, and hackers came tog...

An instrument created by Jason Sidney Sanford and Zacharay Katz. Besides Sanford and Katz, t=0 also featured Mitch Kapor, the founder of Lotus Development Corporation; Brad Feld, the co-founder of Foundry Group and Te...