United Press International (UPI)
"The hot Jupiters are beasts to handle. They are not fitting neatly into our models and are more diverse than we thought"
In the Media
Boston Globe
“Every cell in the body has DNA and chromosomes and so on; you can think of that as the operating system of the cell...We’re thinking about how do we create additional patches, program updates, little apps.”
CNN
"With just a handful of bike gears, MIT professor Amos Winter is hoping to change the developing world forever."
HuffPost
"'Can we actually take people who are very prone to boredom and actually improve their performance by using some technology to get them to re-engage?'"
Nature
"'It seems like the lunar dynamo lasted very late in the Moon’s history...That’s a very surprising result.'"
Wired
"'The use of a honeychecker thus forces an adversary to either risk logging in with a large chance of causing the detection of the compromise of the password-has file... or else to attempt compromising the honeychecker as well.'"
Scientific American
"Find your own weirdos, and figure out how to amplify them" - Joi Ito
Bloomberg
“'If you think about which country is going to take advantage of this tremendous progress that we can make in online instruction, I don’t think any country is better positioned' than the U.S., Alan Krueger, chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers said today."
Boston Globe
"MIT is...a hub of advanced research, a training ground for entrepreneurs, and a source of talent that forces important companies to set up shop nearby, or risk losing out on new hires." - Paul McMorrow/Globe
NPR
"'It was called an underground cathedral when it opened in 1904,' Ochsendorf says. 'The public was afraid to go underground at that time, and so these vaults and this beautiful, decorative, colorful ceiling really helped people feel comfortable in a grand space below the city.'"
The New York Times
"'In just 15 months, he built a life with us that was rich in friendship and shared adventure,' Dr. Reif said. 'And he touched people across our community with his deep kindness and openhearted willingness to help, his humor and enthusiasm, his playful charm.'"
Nature
"Cooled to a temperature of just 40 millikelvins, the CDMS-II detectors sense heat given off when a particle collides with one of their crystals. The challenge is distinguishing a possible WIMP collision from the many collisions of other particles, such as neutrons."
BBC News
"Its ancient appearance has earned it the title 'living fossil' - but it is so elusive, that it has been hard to study."
Time
"Sketchpad was so clever that it’s still cool today; it must have been unimaginably so almost fifty years ago."
Scientific American
"Scientists once thought glia, which are at least as prevalent as neurons in the brain, were passive support cells; the word 'glia' comes from the Greek word for 'glue.' Research in the past decade has revealed that these cells, as well as neurons, are active players in cognition."