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WBUR

"His lab motto is: If your quanta are broke, we fix them. I wonder if they make crescent wrenches for quantum mechanics. We'll ask him. Seth Lloyd is professor of mechanical engineering at MIT in Cambridge. He joins us from WBUR."
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Forbes

"Schools like MIT and Harvard fuel the area’s high-tech employment, which at 17.7% is second highest in the U.S., after San Jose, Calif."
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NPR

"European officials have taken a big step toward the banking union many analysts believe is necessary to vanquish the debt crisis."
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ABC News

"After nearly a year circling the moon, NASA's Ebb and Flow will meet their demise when they crash — on purpose — into the lunar surface."
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WBUR

"We have huge challenges in this century. We need huge breakthroughs again. On energy, water, cancer, climate change. What’s in the way? How do we do it?"
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The New York Times

"In January, representatives of dozens of countries will gather in Geneva to discuss combating mercury emissions, which are rising in Asia even as Europe and the United States have tightened controls."
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CBS News

"Engineers are creating medical needles and adhesives that emulate barb-tipped porcupine quills."
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Nature Newsblog

"Just in time for the holidays, a team of MIT and Max Planck researchers has released EyeWire: an online game that allows users to trace neural connections through the retina."
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The Boston Globe

"Last week, MIT re-launched a major bid to rezone its Kendall Square holdings, while a citizens’ task force came down strongly in favor of opening up development opportunities in Central Square. Both efforts will leverage private investments to improve shared civic spaces. And both make conscious efforts to build progressive neighborhoods that elevate people over cars."
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NBC News

"The new prototype system, which NCAR developed with NASA, MIT, the Naval Research Laboratory and the University of Wisconsin, can provide up to eight-hour forecasts that are updated hourly."
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Wired

"This notion of science as a diplomatic tool – its use as an entry point to a recalcitrant society that simultaneously breaks down politically steeped preconceptions and offers tangible benefits – is a promising mode of development and a constructive brand of international relations."
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The Wall Street Journal

"The Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the 1970s and 1980s was the center of a generational shift in economic thinking that ascribed substantial influence to central banks for managing economic turbulence."
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Fox News

"Researchers from both the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston detailed their work emulating porcupine quills, in an attempt to create new medical adhesives, needles and more, Medical News Today reported."
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Bloomberg News

"The U.S. military is testing the use of foam injections as a way to staunch internal bleeding of soldiers wounded on the battlefield."
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UPI

"Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology say a rival to silicon, indium gallium arsenide, has led to the creation of the smallest transistor ever built."
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