PHIL WIELAND: Population map shows dots all, folks

Everyone in North America is more than a number. Thanks to an MIT grad student, apparently with lots of time on his hands, everyone in the United States, Canada and Mexico now is also a dot.

Authorities: Report of gunman at MIT was a hoax

BOSTON | Authorities say a report of a gunman on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology campus was a hoax and there is no threat to public safety.

Origami takes on new facets, new fans

Origami, which began hundreds of years ago in Japan, has in recent decades attracted the attention of artists, scientists and mathematicians, said Vanessa Gould, director of the 2010 documentary "Between the Folds."

Friendly flushing: Water-efficient toilets help make sustainable homes

Commode, can, the Oval Office, and the Super Bowl. Throne, pot, loo, John. The royal flush.

Thea Bowman student attends summer MIT program

A 16-year-old Thea Bowman Leadership Academy senior participated in the Minority Introduction to Engineering and Science program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology summer program.

From elegant glass maker to top electronics school

VALPARAISO | The three-story, grayish-brown building at the corner of Lincolnway and Center Street has been many things over more than a century of its existence. What it will be, or if it will be, in the future is uncertain.

Bloom High School inventors head to MIT

Bloom High School students who invented a solar powered oil recovery center machine, in the background of the photo, will present their invention at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Members of the invention team, with Bloom teacher Barry Latham, kneeling, center, include, from left…

Bloom High School inventors head to MIT

CHICAGO HEIGHTS | Bloom High School students who invented a solar powered oil recovery center machine will display their invention June 15 to 18 at the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Mass.

Trio seeks to revive form Valpo Tech building

City agrees to make it eligible for grant program

VU balloon launch studies storm

VALPARAISO | While most folks were hunkering down to wait out the snowstorm Tuesday, students at the Valparaiso University weather center were launching a balloon to study the storm.

Acoustic cloak hides underwater objects from sonar

A new acoustic cloaking technology sounds like something straight out of science fiction. And it is - minus the fiction.

Bloom High gets MIT grant

CHICAGO HEIGHTS | Several advanced placement chemistry students from Bloom High School will travel to MIT next June as the result of a oil recycling program.