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The Guardian

"Cambridge has lost its place as the number one ranking university in the world, with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the US university that specialises in science and technology, taking over the top slot."
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NBC News

"A new sensor could quickly and cheaply detect mercury and other toxic metals in rivers, lakes and fish."
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The Boston Globe

"When we talk about digital gift-wrapping, what we mean is showing some effort, the same way you do when you do a great job wrapping a physical gift."
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The New York Times

"An unusual new study of college students’ interactions with a robot has shed light on why we intuitively trust some people and distrust others."
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BBC News

"He believes his pioneering technology - known as bionics - has the ability to tap into a under appreciated workforce who, until now, may have been unable to work."
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The Economist

"Humans are peculiar as a species, so what makes them so must be hidden in their genome."
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The New York Times

"Computing may be on the cusp of another such wave. This one, many researchers and entrepreneurs say, will be based on smarter machines and software that will automate more tasks and help people make better decisions in business, science and government."
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The Boston Globe

"Among the factors weighing on the recovery are government job cuts, the result of the slowdown in tax collections following the recession, said Paul Osterman, a professor of management at Massachusetts Institute of Technology."
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Nature

"The idea of using bacteria-fighting viruses as a weapon against hard-to-treat infections is making a surprising comeback, but with a twist on how it has been attempted for nearly a century."
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BBC News

"Harvard and MIT's online university, edX, has taken a significant step forward - in a deal with Pearson to provide a global network of invigilated exam centres for online students."
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Bloomberg News

"EdX, the online school founded by Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, will offer proctored final exams to allow students to use their results for credentials and job applications."
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Popular Science

"A five-year project called ENCODE, for 'Encyclopedia of DNA Elements,' found that about 80 percent of the human genome is biologically active, influencing how nearby genes are expressed and in which types of cells."
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Scientific American

"The Twitterati likely already know that last week, I joined MIT science writing professor (and fellow author/physics aficionado) Tom Levenson in the virtual world, Second Life, for the Virtually Speaking Science (VSS) podcast, hosted by BlogTalk Radio."
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The Economist

"We’re trying to put web use for everybody on the international agenda, and for each country that’s wondering what it should do next, help them answer the question." -MIT's Tim Berners-Lee
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USA Today

"Junot Díaz has built a big audience with two books: Drown, a collection of short stories, and his debut novel, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, which won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for fiction."
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