The Boston Globe
“The exciting thing about these results is the second we turn on the light, the animal stops doing the abnormal thing. It’s immediate...It’s a ‘You don’t believe your eyes’ sort of thing."
In the Media
New York Daily News
"Cities, blanketed with networks and digital devices, are developing new forms of intelligence...The same is happening inside our cars, which are increasingly filled with different kinds of connected sensors."
Discovery.com
“The idea behind 4-D printing is that you take multimaterial 3-D printing…and you add a new capability, which is transformation...This is like robotics without wires or motors.”
Boston.com
"My career has been based on helping organisms make materials they didn’t have the opportunity to make through evolution."
Newsweek
"Molaison began a lifelong series of psychological tests...earning him the title of 'the most comprehensively studied patient in neuroscience.'"
The Atlantic
"The team has designed a celestial Segway. Except this particular gyroscope-leveraging vehicle involves space-tailored jetpacks."
Financial Times
“Some people are by default more outgoing, some are more retiring, more quiet...We look at those default habit roles and I challenge them to move out of their comfort zone.”
NBC News
"Medieval manuscripts usually survive as fragments, and at the same time, they are also very often assemblages of multiple, disparate works."
The Guardian
"A typical pair of synthetic trainers generates 30lbs of emissions, equivalent to leaving a 100-watt bulb burning for a week"
The Boston Globe
“I really see how online learning will democratize education...It will really bring the world closer together.”
The Boston Globe
"It was part college dance, part video game, part Simon Says, part high-tech experiment."
New Scientist
"CAN'T get to the phone? Try waving at it. A device that enables a smartphone's camera to recognise gestures – without gobbling up precious battery life – looks set to transform the way we make calls."
Boston Herald
“Developing drug delivery systems that can provide insulin at levels required by the body really do have tremendous game-changing potential"
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Boston Globe
"It was a pretty cool experience to be an undergraduate and talk to a head of state about my experiences here"