Wired
"A team of MIT chemists has published a paper revealing how it developed a method for drawing gas sensors onto paper using a tailor-made, super-conductive carbon nanontube pencil."
In the Media
NBC News
"A few scribbled lines on paper can instantly create a sensor for detecting dangerous gases. Massachusetts Institute of Technology chemists pulled off that neat trick by using a pencil in which the graphite 'lead' was replaced by a special material called carbon nanotubes."
Scientific American
"Their lively, five-minute Pecha Kucha-style presentations focused on how physical and digital worlds are combining to create smart environments."
BBC World Service
"Every day firefighters enter dangerous building not knowing precisely what they will be confronted with. Their task would be made much easier if they and their colleagues on the outside were able to map that dangerous space."
Scientific American
"The article 'Commercializing Biomedical Research Through Securitization Techniques' by Lo and colleagues makes the point that cash waterfalls these days aren’t flowing to the right places."
ABC News
"Getting a 'like' on Facebook can be gratifying. But as gratifying as a hug?"
The Daily Beast
"We taught our children not to care about privacy. A whole generation was let down." -MIT's Sherry Turkle
CBS Boston
"The contrast between this flowing design and the plain brick material from which it was made make this building a great example of modern architecture in the city."
CBS News
"Eighteen of the institutions with superior grad rates are located on the East Coast and include all eight of the Ivy League members."
The Economist
"Research by Kristin Forbes of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Marcel Fratzscher, Thomas Kostka and Roland Straub of the European Central Bank has assessed the impact of Brazilian taxes on foreign purchases of fixed-income assets between 2006 and 2011."
The New York Times
"In the health field, researchers in labs across the country are pursuing a host of big-data technologies, including ways to better assess patient behaviors and measure drug effectiveness."
Nature
"Representatives of President Barack Obama and Republican contender Mitt Romney at last squared off on energy and climate issues Friday night."
NPR
"A team of astronomers using a network of radio dishes to peer to the edge of a massive black hole at the heart of a galaxy that is 15 million light years away, for the first time, they have measured the invisible boundary around the black hole - it's called an event horizon - where nothing, not even light, can escape its strong gravitational pull."
Boston Magazine
"Researchers at MIT’s Media Lab have produced a video advertising a vest they’ve invented that inflates when the user receives a Facebook 'Like.'"
New Scientist
"Think you need talent and training to become a sculptor? Now with some computer guidance, intricate 3D shapes can be reproduced with little effort."