Light often goes unnoticed until it’s gone. At MIT Museum’s “Lighten Up! On Biology and Time” exhibit, however, it becomes the main character in an interactive display as visitors walk a brightened ...

The 50 or so items in the show are drawn from the 1.5 million in the museum’s permanent collection CAMBRIDGE — “Moving” is a lexical two-fer. As a verb, it pertains to location, as in getting from one ...

CAMBRIDGE — “Monsters of the Deep: Between Imagination and Science” is, in effect, two exhibitions. It runs at the MIT Museum through January. The subtitle gives a clue as to that two-ness. One ...

AT MIT, THEY’RE WORKING ON DODGING ASTEROIDS. MOTHER EARTH RECENTLY DODGED A BULLET. AN ASTEROID THE SIZE OF AN EIGHT STORY BUILDING. BUT WE’RE NOT ENTIRELY IN THE CLEAR. YEAH, THERE MIGHT BE MORE ...