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A President's Urgent Call--from MIT: After an unprecedented presidential lab tour, Barack Obama delivers an address asking America to lead in clean energy. By David Chandler

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Having It Both Ways: Color-shifting roofs could save energy

Linear Equations Go Quantum: Quantum computers may actually be useful

Four Geniuses and a Laureate: Alumni honored with MacArthur, Nobel awards

Energy Studies: New minor addresses a major issue

An Attractive Prospect: Researchers get gas to act like a magnet

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"If the Obama were a unit of measure ...": A student's account of the president's visit. By Michael Snively ’11

Driven to Abstraction: Institute Professor Barbara Liskov pioneered many of the ideas that have shaped modern computer science. By Erica Naone, SM '07

Poverty's Researcher: MacArthur Foundation "genius" Esther Duflo, PhD '99, field-tests aid programs to find out which ones work-and why. By Peter Dizikes

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