The Guardian
"For cities to become truly green, they need to be less about cars and more about people."
In the Media
Nature News
"Synthetic biology seeks to bring concepts from electronic engineering to cell biology, treating gene functions as components in a circuit. To that end, researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge have devised a set of simple genetic modules that respond to inputs much like the Boolean logic gates used in computers."
Wired.co.uk
"Children's rooms across the country are littered with well-meaning but unloved 'edutainment' toys. But Skylar Tibbits, an architect and lecturer at MIT, has designed one that's educational, aesthetically satisfying and fun."
Nature
"In the wake of Hurricane Sandy, scientists and officials are trying to protect the largest US city from future floods."
Los Angeles Times
"Researchers believe they may have spotted the youngest black hole in the Milky Way galaxy, and — from scientists’ point of view – it’s not far away."
Wired.co.uk
"Synthetic biologists at MIT have developed 'genetic circuits' that can perform basic logic functions in living cells."
The Huffington Post
"Gift giving can be fraught with anxiety, and Valentine's Day gifts are no exception." -MIT's Renee Richardson Gosline
The Guardian
"In his book, Theory U, Dr Otto Scharmer, senior lecturer at MIT, explores how leadership itself needs to transform in order to be able to lead us across this threshold."
The Huffington Post
"So is there a conflict between science and religion?" -MIT's Max Tegmark
USA Today
"Earth orbits in a shooting gallery of asteroids and space rocks, but an impact looks unlikely for the foreseeable future."
Scientific American
"Power-conducting films that could be stuck to any surface under the sun are coming. Will that get us the solar power we need?"
The Boston Globe
"Named after the first known black MIT graduate, the 28-year-old Robert R. Taylor Network pairs professionals in architecture, science, technology, engineering, and math with students from urban communities who are underrepresented in those fields, said Darian C. Hendricks, the network’s chairman and chief executive."
The Boston Globe
"Things were different in Boston on Sunday. A massive snowfall will do that to a city."
The New York Times (Slideshow Image)
"Students from Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology had a snowball fight in Cambridge, Mass."
Bloomberg Businessweek
"Today we look at e-business, or Internet commerce, an academic specialty that borrows heavily from a number of academic disciplines from entrepreneurship and marketing to data mining and analysis."