Scientific American
"Scientists have mapped a tiny roundworm's entire nervous system. Did it teach them anything about its behavior?"
In the Media
AP at Boston Herald
"The Robert A. and Renee E. Belfer Family Foundation has donated $25 million for research on Alzheimer’s and other neurodegenerative diseases."
Chronicle of Higher Education
"The underrepresentation of women in science and mathematics is well documented, but it may come as a surprise to many people that men also far outnumber women in certain humanities disciplines, including philosophy and history."
The New York Times
"Run by Dr. Howard Shrobe, an M.I.T. computer scientist who is now a Darpa program manager, the effort began with a premise: If the computer industry got a do-over, what should it do differently?"
The Chronicle of Higher Education
"Things have improved on campus; I am proud to have helped enroll a student body in which 45 percent of our undergraduates—and 44 percent of our STEM majors—are women." -MIT's Matt McGann
The New York Times
"The term “hacker” was popularized in Steven Levy’s 1984 book 'Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution.' It described an early generation of M.I.T. students who did not break into computers and networks — or black hats — but instead were passionate programmers and hardware tinkerers."
CNN
"Traditional medical tape has two layers: the sticky one and the non-sticky one that forms the backing. The adhesive is designed for adults, Karp said; newborns need something else just for them."
The Chronicle of Higher Education
"Leah Buechley, an associate professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, meanwhile, has created a kit that allows girls to program 'wearable computers' that can be sewn into clothes and made to produce sound and light with microchips."
BBC News
"3D printing, its admirers say, is to the world of objects what the internet has been to the world of information."
The Wall Street Journal
"If history is any guide, there's a real risk Beijing will use force against Japan over the Senkakus." -MIT's M. Taylor Fravel
The Boston Globe
"A new proposal for Boston school assignments presented Saturday by a Massachusetts Institute of Technology doctoral student was essentially pushed to front-runner status by an advisory committee, as five other proposals began to fall off the table, just one month after they were unveiled."
The Economist
"The study, based on the geographical pattern of 1m mobile-phone calls in Portugal, found that calls between phones far apart (a first contact, perhaps) are often followed by a flurry within a small area (just before a meeting)."
Wired
"Ramesh Raskar and his team at MIT have developed software and an iPhone accessory that can perform eye tests without the need for expensive equipment."
CNN Money
"You probably expect all the latest and greatest high-tech gear to be out in force at the infamous MIT Media Lab innovation complex. And you’d be right. Holograms? Check. 3D printing? Check. Robots? Triple check — even a DragonBot."
Los Angeles Times
"Given sufficient warning, an asteroid headed on a collision course with Earth could be diverted by firing paintballs at it, an MIT graduate student has calculated."