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Damon returns to action movies but this one has a political twist.

In dazzling fashion, Neil Patrick Harris opened the night with dance moves and a shiny sequined tuxedo.

Remember Me is a surprisingly thought-provoking look at family tensions. Robert Pattinson shows he is more than a vampire.

Sandra Bullock won best actress for her turn in football drama The Blind Side. She looked like a winner too, in her golden Marchesa gown.

Kathryn Bigelow was the triumph of the night, becoming the first woman to win best director while beating out ex-husband James Cameron. The Hurt Locker won six Oscars, including best picture.

Erez Lieberman-Aiden G invented a way to find out how the genome folds.

At the MIT Energy Conference on Saturday, United States Senator Jeff Bingaman (D-NM) speaks about the steps that the U.S. must take to achieve energy independence. The annual student-run conference focuses on technolo...

Equilibrium globule modelThe “equilibrium globule” is an older model that describes how the genome might exist in three-dimensions. Unlike in the “fractal globule” model, here individual strands are highly entangled a...

Fractal globule model Lieberman-Aiden’s new technique for creating 3-D genomic maps (Hi-C), gave him evidence him to theorize that the structure of the human genome forms a “fractal globule.” Here the genome forms sup...

Geoffrey V. Wilson ’02, current Media Lab employee, has been charged with the first-degree murder of his six-month-old son. Wilson, 31, is an MIT alumnus and an administrator at the Media Lab.