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Ravi Coltrane, right, performing at Jazzcub Unterfahrt in Munich, Germany. Left, Drew Gress on bass.

Incoming freshmen take advantage of fun opportunities to use high tech, expensive equipment such as laser printers in the Discover Materials Science and Engineering Pre-Orientation program.

Discover Ocean Engineering participant Jiaming Zeng ’15 modifies her underwater video-taking robot.

Kevin L. Brown ’88 (left) sits in MIT’s Forbes Family Café in Building 32, and demonstrates the new wormhole by talking to Neal Soderquist (right), who is sitting in Stanford University’s Forbes Family Café.

Speakers placed in a plastic dome above the table of the wormhole direct audio to students at MIT from those at Stanford.

Matt McGann ’00 (left) and Chris Peterson (right), associate admissions director and admissions counselor for web communications, respectively, were driving forces behind the new admissions wiki.

The 2011 Nissan Leaf hatchback: are we ready to go all-electric?

Battery temperature gauge on left; battery capacity gauge on right. More interesting is the top-center gauge, which fills to the right when energy is being spent by the motor, and to the left when it is being regenera...

The Leaf’s charging panel, underneath the Nissan badge on the front. SAE-J1772 inlet (right) for everyday AC charging, and JARI/CHAdeMO inlet (left) for high-voltage DC charging.

MIT alumni and current students line up on Sunday at the MIT Club of Boston (MIT COB) barbecue to grab food off the grill prepared by MIT COB volunteers. Over 300 people attended, and nearly 70 people volunteered for ...

On Jan. 6, 2011, Aaron Swartz was seen exiting Room 16-004t, which he had allegedly been using to download millions of articles from JSTOR.