Boston Herald
"A new MIT report urges a fresh commitment to manufacturing in the U.S. to spur innovation and growth and stem the flow of jobs to other countries."
In the Media
Inside Higher Ed
"President Obama’s call for a renewed emphasis on 'affordability and value' in assessing colleges and universities pairs those two terms in a way that simultaneously highlights their difference and the degree to which they have become interchangeable in much of the current discourse about higher education."
The Washington Post
"Two major providers of free online higher education are expanding the ranks of universities that contribute courses to their Web sites, adding many schools from outside the United States."
The Atlantic
"The angst and ire of teenagers is finding new, sometimes dangerous expression online—precipitating threats, fights, and a scourge of harrassment that parents and schools feel powerless to stop."
The Chronicle of Higher Education
"How can a nonprofit organization that gives away courses bring in enough revenue to at least cover its costs?"
BBC News
"As part of its project on the cities of the future, the BBC asked a series of experts to explain their vision of where they would like to live in the future."
The New York Times
"But if our goal is to get Americans to drive less and use more fuel-efficient vehicles, and to reduce air pollution and the emission of greenhouse gases, gas prices need to be even higher."
UPI.com
"The planet Mercury may have had a large, rolling ocean of magma very early in its history after its formation about 4.5 billion years ago, U.S. astronomers say."
MarketWatch
"The numbers are not clear, but the topic of baby boomer downsizing from larger home to smaller housing options features prominently in the real estate business news."
The Guardian
"The Silicon Valley aristocrats Mark Zuckerberg, Sergey Brin and Yuri Milner have jointly established the most lucrative annual prize in the history of science to reward research into curing diseases and extending human life."
The New York Times
"Eleven scientists, most of them American, were scheduled to be named on Wednesday as the first winners of the world’s richest academic prize for medicine and biology — $3 million each, more than twice the amount of the Nobel Prize."
WBUR's Here and Now
"Scientist Eric Lander was named today as one of the winners of the new Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences, the world’s richest academic prize for medicine and biology."
The Boston Globe
"The Nobel Prizes have more history behind them, but a new generation of life science prizes awarded Wednesday to two local scientists has a bigger payday: at $3 million per prize, more than twice the money."
Nature
"The prospect of carbon taxes and cap-and-trade markets has led industry groups around the world to adopt green or sustainable cement initiatives. Their approaches range from supporting basic research to pushing to reform international building codes, and, if successful, could eventually cut the cement industry's carbon dioxide footprint by half."
AFP
"Dark matter throws down the gauntlet to the so-called Standard Model of physics."