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The Boston Globe

"A striking study led by an MIT Sloan School of Management professor shows that teams of people display a collective intelligence that has surprisingly little to do with the intelligence of the team’s individual members."
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The Wall Street Journal (Asia)

"Dr. Weinberg and colleagues at MIT's Whitehead Institute are collaborating with researcher Eric Lander at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard University in one effort to hunt for potential cancer stem cell killers."
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Discover Magazine

"Deciphering an unknown language is a challenge even for veteran linguists. But in July, MIT computer scientist Regina Barzilay proved that a computer can do the job well and with astonishing speed." - #51 on the 'Top 100 Stories of 2010'
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Discover Magazine

"In April neuroscientist Liane Young and her colleagues at MIT and Harvard University reported that they had altered people’s moral judgments using transcranial magnetic stimulation, a procedure that briefly disrupts neural processing with a magnetic field induced by electric current." - #80 on the 'Top 100 Stories of 2010'
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The Atlantic

Sprinkle Guns, Egg Washers, and Other Food Contraptions - The Atlantic runs an article on this year's 2.009 product design course at MIT, which is taught by David Wallace.
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Nature.com

"To build such a cloak you need a material that will bend the incoming and outgoing light rays by different amounts — determined by the dimensions of the object underneath, explains Baile Zhang, an optical engineer at the Singapore–MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART) Centre in Singapore, who designed one of the cloaks."
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Reuters UK

"Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are providing an early look at what they describe as groundbreaking work -- the first lifecycle assessments of building and paving materials to consider economic as well as environmental factors." - This article originally ran in Greener World Media.
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The Economist

"Photography can perform many tricks. Until now, though, looking round corners has not been one of them. Ramesh Raskar of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology plans to change that. He and his students, Ahmed Kirmani and Andreas Velten, have developed a camera that can see what other cameras cannot."
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cnet news

"Ryuma Niiyama of MIT's Robot Locomotion Group wants to build a bot that runs as much like a human as possible, right down to the black nylon running shorts."
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BBC News; Isle of Man

"Social networks could provide the key to redrawing the regional map of Britain, producing areas with strong social cohesion." - Research led by the MIT Senseable City Lab
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U.S. News & World Report

Planet in the Sky With Diamonds - "This surprise invites new theories for how planets form, says astrophysicist Nikku Madhusudhan, a Princeton University astrophysicist who participated in the research while at MIT."
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U.S. News & World Report (AP)

"Arizona State University's Judd Bowman and Alan Rogers of Massachusetts Institute of Technology have developed a small-scale radio astronomy experiment designed to detect a never-before-seen signal from the early universe during this period of time, a development that has the potential to revolutionize the understanding of how the first galaxies formed and evolved."
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National Public Radio (NPR)

Economists Weigh In On Tax Compromise - MIT economist and professor Simon Johnson is a guest on NPR's All Things Considered, speaking about the tax compromise.
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The Economist

"Led by the SENSEable City Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, it analysed billions of phone calls within Britain to find out whether the country’s internal administrative borders are drawn in a way that corresponds with how people actually interact."
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New Scientist - Blogs

"Luckily for spendthrifts, Kestner and his colleagues have come up with a solution: a wallet that warns you when you're getting dangerously carried away with your shopping."
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