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Professor Susan Lindquist of the Whitehead Institute was awarded the National Medal of Science by President Obama on Friday. Lindquist is one of six MIT faculty members to have received this honor.

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Benoit Mandelbrot, best known for his work with fractals, died last Thursday at the age of 85.

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Andrew Garfield, Joseph Mazzello, Jesse Eisenberg and Patrick Maple gaze into the future of everyone’s social lives.

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Keir Gilchrist and Zach Galifianakis reflect on their mental problems.

FOR MANY COSPLAYERS, IT’S THE LITTLE TOUCHES, LIKE AN INCOMING ACT OF SLIMING, THAT COMPLETE A SUCCESSFUL COSTUME.

NEW YORK COMIC CON 2010 GOERS WATCH COUNTER-STRIKE TEAM “EVIL GENIUSES” COMPETE IN THE INTEL EXTREME MASTERS AMERICAN CHAMPIONSHIP FINALS ON SATURDAY. GAMES ARE BROADCAST BOTH ONLINE AND ON LARGE HIGH-DEFINITION SCREE...

BRUCE CAMPBELL, LEGENDARY B-MOVIE ACTOR CURRENTLY PLAYING SAM AXE ON BURN NOTICE, GREETS FANS AND SIGNS AUTOGRAPHS AT NEW YORK COMIC CON 2010.

A TEAMLIQUID.NET STAFF MEMBER INTERVIEWS “THEGUNRUN” FOR HFGL.TV’S STARCRAFT 2 ONLINE STREAM. THEGUNRUN IS ONE OF THE TWO CO-CASTERS FOR THE INTEL EXTREME MASTERS STARCRAFT 2 AMERICAN CHAMPIONSHIP FINALS TOURNAMENT HE...

MANY GAME DEVELOPERS SHOWED OFF THEIR HIGHLY ANTICIPATED GAMES AT NEW YORK COMIC CON 2010. GAMERS WERE EAGER TO PLAY TITLES SUCH AS FINAL FANTASY XIV, BLOOD STONE 007, AND MARVEL VS. CAPCOM 3.

Feng Wu—The Tech File PhotoInstitute Professor Peter A. Diamond PhD ‘63 won the 2010 Nobel Prize for Economics yesterday, for his work on modeling the friction in markets. Diamond shares the prize with two co-winners, Dale T. Mortensen and

ON THE CROWDED SHOW FLOOR, LARGE DISPLAYS ARE KEY TO ATTRACTING THE ATTENTION OF PASSERSBY.

COSPLAYERS ARE AN ESSENTIAL PART OF ANY ANIME OR COMIC BOOK CONVENTION. NEW YORK COMIC CON 2010 WAS NO EXCEPTION.

SARA CANNING AND KEVIN WILLIAMSON, CAST MEMBERS OF THE UPCOMING CW SHOW VAMPIRE DIARIES, ANSWER QUESTIONS FROM EXCITED FANS AT NEW YORK COMIC CON 2010.

TOP STARCRAFT 2 PLAYER CHRIS “HUK” LORANGER PROUDLY HOLDS UP HIS THIRD PLACE CHECK FOR THE INTEL EXTREME MASTERS AMERICAN CHAMPIONSHIP FINALS TOURNAMENT. TO HIS LEFT STAND FIRST PLACE JIAN CARLO JOAN MORAYRA “FENIX” A...