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."
In the Media
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."
TIME
"Now, thanks to a study by an international team of astrophysicists that was published in the journal Science, there appears to be an answer — one that helps explain not only how the galactic pyrotechnics are produced but also how galaxies themselves grow and expand."
The Huffington Post
"On Sept. 4, Norway's King Harald presented the Kavli Prize in Astrophysics, Nanoscience and Neuroscience to seven laureates at Oslo Concert Hall. Four of the seven winners were women, including the first person ever to receive the prize as a sole winner."
Wall Street Journal
"Higher education is at a crossroads not seen since the introduction of the printing press." - MIT President L. Rafael Reif, in an op-ed on "What Campuses Can Learn From Online Teaching"
BBC News
"The model works because most members of society agree the person who's been waiting longest should be served next, he says."
The Washington Post
"MIT’s Gabriel Lenz and Chappell Lawson have found that attractive candidates disproportionately benefit from debates, with new support coming especially from less informed voters."
The Huffington Post
"Dominican-American writer Junot Diaz and Mexican-American filmmaker Natalia Almada both officially became MacArturos on Monday, each receiving a prestigious MacArthur 'Genius' Grant."
The Chronicle of Higher Education
"EdX and its collaborators are developing tools and teaching models to answer those questions. And they view the project as a means to study even deeper problems, like understanding how people forget—and creating strategies to prevent it."
The Boston Globe
"Andrew W. Lo, the MIT finance professor and hedge fund manager, wants to bring Wall Street-style financial engineering to a crucial social need: curing cancer."
The New York Times
"'It does seem unprecedented that the court would uphold a law and increase support for it,' she said, 'and still experience a hit to its own approval and standing at the same time.'"
The Boston Globe
"Four Boston-area residents — a celebrated novelist, a Harvard economist, a pediatric neurosurgeon, and a man who carves, shapes, and threads some of the world’s most finely crafted instrument bows — are among 23 people worldwide chosen to be the 2012 MacArthur Fellows and recipients of the foundation’s 'genius grants.'"