Nature
"In the latest work, published today in Science, Geim and an international team of colleagues show that graphene could be used to make a new generation of so-called 'spintronic' devices."
In the Media
The Boston Globe
"Director Adam Zahler’s imaginative vision for the Catalyst Collaborative@MIT and Underground Railway Theater’s current production emphasizes that notion with a set that suggests the audience’s perspective is inside Turing’s mind, with the outside world revolving all around him."
Wall Street Journal blogs
"In a speech at an MIT symposium, Berners-Lee compared access to the Web with access to water."
BBC News
"Here (at MIT) concrete is treated with an admiration more often reserved for diamonds or gold, especially by Franz-Josef Ulm, one of the top professors in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering."
Boston Herald
"A co-production of Underground Railway Theater and Catalyst Collaborative@MIT, 'Breaking the Code' is directed by Adam Zahler and boasts the finest ensemble acting of any local company this season."
U.S. News Health
"When children who were blind from birth were able to see for the first time, they weren't immediately able to make the connection between what they were seeing and what they were feeling with their hands, a new study reveals."
ABC News
"MIT airline safety expert Arnold Barnett did a study on aviation safety and found that the chance of dying on a scheduled flight, from propeller planes to jetliners, in the United States is 1 in 14 million."
The Boston Globe
"Maybe it’s no surprise that, of all institutions, MIT would take clear, concrete steps to bring more women onto campus."
The Boston Globe
"A long time ago, in a university not far away, this MIT physicist hatched a plan for a bold experiment in space. Now, $1.5 billion and nearly two decades later, it’s finally time for one last adventure: Unlocking the deepest mysteries of the universe."
Science News
"In search of the elusive answer, Held teamed up with MIT colleague Pawan Sinha, who founded an organization in 2003 to help blind children in India. Called Project Prakash, after the Sanskrit word for 'light,' the group collaborates with Indian surgeons who operate to restore sight in children who've been blind from cataracts or other curable causes."
New Scientist
"Five children in India have helped to answer a question posed in 1688 by Irish philosopher William Molyneux: can a blind person who then gains their vision recognise by sight an object they previously knew only by touch?"
The New York Times
"Sherry Turkle, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and author of “Alone Together,” says that as technology becomes ever more pervasive, our relationship to it becomes more intimate, granting it the power to influence decisions, moods and emotions."
The New York Times blogs
"We have to think about the process by which something, an idea, develops scientific consensus and a second process by which is developed a social and political consensus."
CNBC.com
The research was designed to "explore the physical boundaries of liquidity" by devising a new way to buy and sell stocks, in turnaround times that were considered impossible due to light-propagation delays, Wissner-Gross told CNBC.com.
Boston.com
“The great thing about college radio is, you never quite know what you’re going to get," Oedipus says. “You can experiment on college radio, you can try different things, you can be raw. And there’s something very human about that.”