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WBUR

"Rafael Reif, the 17th president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, formally took office Friday with a stern warning for the school about some major challenges that it and other research universities are facing."
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Wired

"The widely held and devoutly believed idea that a big play can change the momentum of a game is, in a word, bunk. So say a trio of MIT stats geeks with a decade of data to back them up."
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Forbes

"From MIT Startup Bootcamp to Grace Hopper Celebration, from PITCH Conference to Girl Geek Dinners, there’s no shortage of things to do for a woman interested in tech and entrepreneurship."
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Nature

"Bacteria reproduce themselves rapidly — but could we make them faster still?"
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New Scientist

"What if you constantly change the ingredients in your raw batter, but the baked cake is always lemon? It sounds like something from a surrealist film, but equivalent scenarios seem to play out all the time in the mathematics of the quantum world."
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BBC News

"Ever wished you'd never met your boss and your colleagues were holograms?"
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The Boston Globe

"It sounds like a late-night freshman dorm debate after a marathon viewing of the “Matrix” trilogy: What if we’re all just bits and bytes in someone else’s computer simulation?"
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Bloomberg News

"Uranium’s recovery from the Fukushima nuclear accident may take one or two years longer than analysts estimated as stockpiles in Japan and Germany keep prices low and cause mining companies to defer new development."
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Reuters

"Fast forward 135 years and this tale of woe, by U.S. historian Scott Reynolds Nelson, bears an uncanny resemblance to today's chronic banking and debt problems, according to Stephen Ross, a professor of financial economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Sloan School of Management."
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CNN Money

"Our conversation, though limited to half-an-hour, spanned many topics but mostly centered around the role robotics can play in bringing back manufacturing to America."
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The Huffington Post

"According to author Paul O’Gorman, an atmospheric scientist at MIT, heavy downpours in the tropics are likely to increase by ten percent for every 1°C (1.8°F) increase in global average surface temperature."
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Scientific American

"But can robots believably display character traits? It turns out they can--and they can tell us a little something about the way humans act, too."
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The New York Times

"The Hartford Financial Service Group and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology AgeLab published a study this week that identified 10 safety-related automotive technologies that its panel judged as the most beneficial for mature drivers."
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Bloomberg News

"There’s a ring of man-made satellites orbiting the earth that will outlast human civilization. To send a message to the future, artist Trevor Paglen decided to micro-etch 100 images on an ultra-archival disc created by Massachusetts Institute of Technology engineers and blast them up there."
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NBC News

"Scientists have harnessed an imaging technique to create a 3-D visualization of electrons moving at nearly light speed on and in a futuristic material that could replace silicon in electronic devices of tomorrow."
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