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The New York Times

"For the first time, researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology report, brain imaging has been able to show in living patients the progressive damage Parkinson’s disease causes to two small structures deep in the brain."
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The Wall Street Journal

"Scientists are studying how to tap the energy naturally created by people's bodies—such as heat, sound and movement—to power medical devices without the need to change batteries."
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Reuters

"Roberto Rigobon, a professor at MIT's Sloan School of Business said investors may the advertisements 'more as polarized political discussion than feel roused to call their senators.'"
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The New York Times

"How do you take particles in a test tube, or components in a tiny chip, and turn them into a $100 million company? Dr. Robert Langer, 64, knows how."
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The Economist

"Paul Osterman, an MIT professor who studies part-time and low-wage work, notes that Walmart comes out of the rural south, infertile ground for unionising, but is trying to move into more heavily unionised cities, particularly in the north-east."
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BBC News

"Adam Shaw checks out the Q Sensor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a wireless sensor, which measures electricity conducted through the skin."
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The Boston Globe

"Since 2003, its researchers have used randomized trials to figure out which interventions help the poor the most."
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Wired.co.uk

"How hard does star US basketball player Kobe Bryant dunk? Add aerospace tech to a basketball net and you can find out, right down to the joule."
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The Boston Globe

"For universities, reduced funding means taking on fewer graduate students and postdocs, closing the pipeline to a generation of scientists, said Claude Canizares, vice president for research at MIT, which gets much of its research funding from the Pentagon."
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Nature News

"Sangeeta Bhatia, a biomedical engineer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is also taking inspiration from information technology and other fields. She is emulating natural systems and robotics to make smart cocktails of cancer therapeutics that communicate with each other to 'swarm' to tumours."
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CNBC

"Graduate students at MIT first started playing with this idea in the late 1980s. That dream has been tinkered with steadily over the last two decades until we’ve reached a tipping point: today, 3D printers for the home are available."
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MSNBC

"A piece of artwork headed into space this week may be on display for the next few billion years."
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CNBC

"'The fact that Wal-Mart is responding to this shows that they share the perception that this is not good for them,' said Paul Osterman, professor of human resources and management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and author of Good Jobs America: Making Work Better for Everyone."
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The Huffington Post

"Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Sloan School of Management, in their Sustainability Initiative, has measured sustainability innovation by interviewing global executives for the past three years."
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Wired.co.uk

"In 2005, Deb Roy, director of the Cognitive Machines group at MIT's Media Lab, installed 11 cameras and 14 microphones in his Boston home to study how his newborn son learned language. The result was more than 240,000 hours of multitrack audio and video that proved incredibly hard to decode."
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