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Wired

"'It is one of the oldest and most pristine samples known,' said MIT graduate student Ian Garrick-Bethell, lead author of a study published Thursday in Science. 'If that wasn’t enough, it is also perhaps the most beautiful lunar rock, displaying a mixture of bright green and milky white crystals.'"
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Boston Business Journal

"Young women are a promising — but untapped — category of potential inventors, according to a new survey from the 2011 Lemelson-MIT Invention Index."
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Online NewsHour

How Currency Choices 'Made in China' Have Big Impact on U.S. Economy - MIT professor Yasheng Huang is a guest on PBS NewsHour, speaking on the ongoing dispute between the U.S. and China over currency and trade.
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Campus Technology

"The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has put forth a new model for research that applies the technical tools of engineering, along with its disciplined design approach, to life science research."
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Boston.com

Aha! - The Boston Globe covers MIT's annual puzzle competition, the Mystery Hunt.
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Scientific American

"A Massachusetts Institute of Technology report, issued yesterday, concludes that creating a nationwide infrastructure for electric vehicles appears to be a bigger challenge than producing affordable batteries to power the cars." - This article originally ran in Climatewire.
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CNBC

Simon Johnson, MIT Professor - MIT professor and economist Simon Johnson is a guest on CNBC's Wall Street Journal Report with Maria Bartiromo, discussing the economic news of the week and the banking industry.
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Boston Herald

"The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is saving energy — and big bucks — through an ambitious project to reduce electricity use across its sprawling Cambridge campus."
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Wall Street Journal

A Century and a Half of What Nerds Wrought - "MIT, incorporated as an engineering school just days before the Civil War broke out, is now celebrating its sesquicentennial with a variety of campus events, including the museum's year-long exhibition of 150 representative objects from its history."
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Reuters

MIT rolls out amazing artifacts for 150th birthday - "But the exhibition, which is one of a series of events marking MIT's birthday on April 10, also offers a glimpse into the artistic, academic, entrepreneurial and often quirky spirit cultivated on the Cambridge, Massachusetts campus."
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The Economist

MIT and the art of innovation - The Economist blogs about the launch of the MIT 150 celebration at the MIT Museum, and the major role that innovation plays at MIT.
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Bloomberg Businessweek

MIT Received More Than 17,800 Applications, Dean Says - "Massachusetts Institute of Technology said it received more than 17,800 undergraduate applications for the next academic year as students see value in a scientific or technical background."
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WBUR

Video: 150 Years Of Weird, World-Changing Innovation - "To mark MIT’s 150th anniversary, the MIT Museum exhibits 150 objects — many of them voted in by the community — that tell the story of world-changing and quirky innovation over the years."
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Wired News

OMGami! Awesome Origami by Brian Chan - "Brian Chan of the MIT Hobby Shop can fold a pretty mean square of paper. He has a lot of intricate insect origami, but what caught my eye especially were some of his geeky designs, like this one of Wall-E. According to his website, he got interested in origami in elementary school and then picked it back up while at MIT."
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On Point

Innovation, Science, and the Next American Breakthroughs - MIT president Susan Hockfield is a guest on NPR's On Point with Tom Ashbrook, speaking on the topic of innovation, science, and the next American breakthroughs.
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