BBC News
"Its ancient appearance has earned it the title 'living fossil' - but it is so elusive, that it has been hard to study."
In the Media
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."
The Wall Street Journal
"'The old educational financing model frankly is no longer sustainable...This is an evidence-based approach to a new form of learning.'"
Boston Globe
"Cambridge, eager to preserve Kendall Square as a hothouse of innovation, is poised to become the first community in the country to require commercial developers to set aside lower-cost offices for start-up companies and budding entrepreneurs."
Bloomberg Businessweek
"Researchers at MIT have built an ionic thruster—a device that can lift something into the air by charging the air molecules around it. Amazing, right? Though not in the way you might think."
Forbes
“'The selection of TESS has just accelerated our chances of finding life on another planet within the next decade,' said planetary scientist Sara Seager"
The Economist
"...in theory, graphene desalination plants should be simple to build and maintain, and would work in the poorest village. It may not be diamond. But graphene could yet turn out to be the world’s best friend."
Inside Higher Education
"The head of edX, the MIT professor Anant Agarwal, said the resulting open source software will allow a 'planet-scale democratization of education' – a bold claim amid an ed tech boom full of bold claims."
Los Angeles Times
"Let that long-held breath out, folks. The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer has picked up a lot of mysterious antimatter in low Earth orbit – but that doesn’t necessarily mean it’s a sign of dark matter."
CNN.com
"During these contemplative moments, you have to wonder what's going on inside the head of this young scientist who, at age 33, has already helped invent influential technologies in the study of the human brain."
Time
"'This disease [cancer] is much more complex than we have been treating it,' says MIT’s Phillip Sharp. 'And the complexity is stunning.'"
Nature
"Cancer geneticist Matthew Meyerson, who is at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, tracks the many ways tumors wreak chaos in orderly cells. He wants to squeeze into his schedule a dedicated time period in Gad Getz's lab at the Broad Institute to hone his computational skills for analyzing data about cancer genomes."
Slate
"In a report published this week, a team including researchers from MIT and Harvard revealed that anonymized cellphone location data demonstrate patterns of behavior that could be used to identify a person."
Financial Times
“'I am like the first person in my city to get into MIT ever so I have become sort of pretty famous,' he said. 'I was so motivated by how we were taught [by edX] that I decided that maybe I belong to MIT after all.'”