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ANIMAL PHOTOS WEEKLY: Albino Whale, Baby Giraffe, More

27 August 2008, 7:00 am.

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A rare albino right whale frolics in the water, a mother giraffe nuzzles its baby, and more in our new weekly roundup of animal photos.

New Orleans Gears Up for Possible Hurricane Gustav Hit

28 August 2008, 7:00 am.

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As tropical storm Gustav gains strength in the Caribbean, emergency management personnel who learned from Hurricane Katrina three years ago are already preparing for possible landfall.

Ancient Urban Network Mapped in Amazon Forests

28 August 2008, 7:00 am.

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Vast swathes of "pristine" Amazon rain forest may actually have been sophisticated urban landscapes prior to the arrival of European colonists, anthropologists say.

NASA And Challenger Center Combining Efforts For Students

28 August 2008, 11:00 am. NASA and the Challenger Center for Space Science Education, Alexandria, Va., announced Thursday a cooperative Space Act Agreement.

NASA's Mars Rover Opportunity Climbing Out of Victoria Crater

26 August 2008, 11:00 am. NASA's Mars Exploration rover Opportunity is heading back out to the Red Planet's surrounding plains nearly a year after descending into a large Martian crater to examine exposed ancient rock layers.

NASA Renames Observatory For Fermi, Reveals Entire Gamma-Ray Sky

26 August 2008, 11:00 am. NASA's newest observatory, the Gamma-Ray Large Area Space Telescope, or GLAST, has begun its mission of exploring the universe in high-energy gamma rays.

Giant clams 'secure for another generation' after Philippine re-seeding

7 July 2008, 3:58 pm. Re-seeding programmes on over 50 reefs are securing the survival of the giant clam for at least another generation, according to WWF-Philippines.

Malaysia International Dive Expo 2008

16 June 2008, 1:57 pm. Visit The Malaysia International Dive Expo 2008 (MIDE) which is back for bigger and better this time and will be staged Putra World Trade Centre (PWTC), Kuala Lumpur from 4 to 6 July 2008.

Indonesian fishermen blamed for whaleshark losses

3 June 2008, 1:24 pm. Scientists fear Indonesian fishermen hunting whale sharks are responsible for a 40 per cent drop in numbers along Australia's Ningaloo Reef in the past 10 years.

Chiang challenges freshmen to follow their passions

26 August 2008, 12:00 pm. If you follow your passion, sometimes you end up in the right place at the right time to have an impact on the world, MIT Professor Yet-Ming Chiang told the Class of 2012 Tuesday during the freshman faculty keynote address.

MIT alum Kleinrock wins National Medal of Science

26 August 2008, 12:00 pm. Leonard Kleinrock SM '59, PhD '63 has been selected to receive the prestigious National Medal of Science, awarded by President George W. Bush.

New students get oriented at MIT

25 August 2008, 12:00 pm. Incoming MIT undergraduates and graduate students get acquainted with the campus and their fellow students during orientation week in this evolving photo gallery.

MIT software aims to thwart cyber hackers

27 August 2008, 12:00 pm. In response to the chronic cyber threat of hackers, MIT Lincoln Laboratory researchers are developing a software tool to identify the most vulnerable points in a computer network, allowing administrators to focus on those rather than the whole network.

Model helps computers sort data more like humans

25 August 2008, 12:00 pm. In an advance that may impact the field of artificial intelligence, a new model developed at MIT can help computers recognize patterns the same way that humans do. The model can analyze a set of data and figure out which type of organizational structure best fits it.

Call of the wild

22 August 2008, 12:00 pm. What started out as an MIT project aimed at monitoring owls in their natural environment has grown into an international collaboration on how to use widespread networks of citizen-scientists to gain new insights into a wide variety of species.