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A hazardous materials decontamination tent was set up in the Westgate parking lot early Tuesday morning in response to a New House bomb scare. Cambridge and MIT police eventually determined that there was never any th...

MIT and Cambridge police and firefighters coordinated the response to potential pipe bombs in New House early Tuesday morning. There was never any threat to campus safety, but the Cambridge bomb squad carried out a se...

Members of the police, fire department, and ATF wait on Amherst Alley as the Cambridge Police Bomb Unit disrupted a suspicious material on the 3rd floor of German House in New House midday on Tuesday. The material tur...

Danielle A. Hinton G, PhD candidate in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, is hooded by Chancellor W. Eric L. Grimson PhD ’80 and interim department head Srini Devadas in Rockwell Cage midda...

Lewin emotionally announces that this lecture is his last.

Lewin lights the third of four cigarettes he needs to generate enough small particles to demonstrate Rayleigh scattering.

Lewin demonstrates Rayleigh scattering by showing that cigarette smoke scatters blue light.

The 75-year-old Professor Lewin takes 10 full swings on a pendulum to demonstrate that adding mass will not change its frequency.

Lewin signed copies of his newly published book after his last lecture.

As part of Archiprix International, 304 graduation thesis projects by graduate students in architecture, urban design, and landscape architecture from around the world are on display on the fourth floor of Building 7....

MIT is hoping to complete a number of new construction and renovation projects within the next 10 years, but many MIT 2030 projects reflected here are far from finalized.