PBS NewsHour
The PBS NewsHour's Rebecca Jacobson reports on Professor Dennis Kim's work studying how worms defend themselves against bacteria. Through this work, Kim believes he can gain a better understanding of the human immune system.
In the Media
WGBH
“It has pretty much completely changed society in a really big way, I think cyber-bullying has definitely been one of the main things that occurs today”
Scientific American
"The Higgs Boson was predicted with the same tool as the planet Neptune and the radio wave: with mathematics. Galileo famously stated that our Universe is a 'grand book' written in the language of mathematics."
Wired
"Essentially, it's a onesie featuring a 'Turtle' device full of sensors that monitors heart rate and how a baby is breathing, as well as how much and when the child moves around in the night."
Wired
“I still think space exploration is the most exciting thing going on, and heroic-looking suits might help make more of a human connection for folks.”
Boston Globe
“Many lines of research from the federal level are essentially in free fall at the moment”
Popular Science
"Chocolate’s hard to work with—it clogs—and we had to fabricate the parts because existing chocolate valves are too big for home use."
CNBC
"Hurricane intensity should increase with increasing global mean temperatures. ... This trend is due to both longer storm lifetimes and greater storm intensities."
YouTube
Meet DRC Team MIT
Associated Press
"The motor integrates itself with the rider's motion very, very seamlessly"
Wall Street Journal
“Risk is hidden in unexpected places”
New Scientist
"What if you could simply use a real object to log in? So-called physical key authentication is already used by staff at Facebook, and Google is planning to roll it out to its users in 2014."
Boston.com
"I think it really says maybe even in my lifetime, we’re going to find compelling evidence for life elsewhere in the galaxy, and to me that’s the million dollar question, that’s the question that NASA’s been going after my entire life.”
NPR
"[O]ut of that war in the trenches, if you like, we will see how tough the regulators are and how much the banks, the very big banks, can escape the intent of this very sensible rule."
Boston Globe
"NASA has been using radio systems to communicate with space for 50 years. Meanwhile, on the ground, we are using fiber-optics. We'd like to get in the game of broadband for space."