Forbes
"The wheel’s motor converts the friction created during back-peddle braking to electricity, which charges the battery."
In the Media
New York Times
"The key is the way a water drop changes shape and bounces off material that has been treated to make it super water-repellent. The drop flattens into a pancake, then recollects itself and bounces up."
Boston Globe
"As the flywheels gain momentum, they take over the work, and move the seats up and down. That’s a moment of letting go and being carried. A delight."
Associated Press
"This award will be given annually to an individual or group that embodies the character and qualities that Officer Collier exhibited as a member of the MIT community and in all aspects of his life"
WMBR
We chat with Sarah Gallop, co-director of MIT Community Relations about the MIT 2030 project to develop Kendall Square.
TIME
TIME Assistant Managing Editor Tom Weber will moderate a session, Nurturing Invention, featuring Kripa Varansai, associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT.
Scientific American
"This fundamentally different approach to devising materials could lead to incredibly lightweight and strong structures for aerospace, industrial and consumer products."
New York Times
"As early as the end of December, the European Space Agency plans to launch GAIA, a star surveyor and mapper, into an orbit beyond the moon."
Boston Globe
“You can’t just say go get an education because these people are often educated.”
Associated Press
"There are thousands of ASEPs, and they get all over the earth, even in places where they have never been used or produced"
USA Today
"MIT's Tangible Media Group releases a video showing their its invention - a table controlled by computer that changes shape via a motion tracker. "
The Guardian
"It's first things first: we should know now how climate change is affecting us rather than how it will affect us in 100 years' time."
Wired
"While both mechanisms may be of interest to the scientific and engineering communities, the development into a device of interest to the culinary arts required an additional step, the mimicry not only of nature's function, but of her elegance"
Slate
"Of course, the best way to get people to use revolving doors is simply to design them better."
NPR
"A new analysis of data collected by NASA'S Kepler spacecraft shows that there could be as many as 40 billion habitable planets similar to the size of Earth in the galaxy."