The Huffington Post
"For his latest project, 'The Last Pictures,' the experimental artist plans to present his work in space, hanging in the midst of cosmic artifacts rather than earthly masterpieces."
In the Media
CBS News
"A pair of robotic spacecraft in orbit around the moon began collecting data on lunar gravity again last week, as part of the probes' extended mission."
Nature
"First they sequenced it. Now they have surveyed its hinterlands. But no one knows how much more information the human genome holds, or when to stop looking for it."
The Wall Street Journal
"Berenice Abbott's science photographs invite us to contemplate the wonder of creation."
The Boston Globe
"Some smartphone apps collect and transmit sensitive information stored on a phone, including location, contacts, and Web browsing histories, even when the apps are not being used by the phone’s owner, according to two researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology."
The New York Times
"They bill their new book, Visual Strategies, as a guide to graphics for scientists and engineers, but it will be useful for anyone who wants to make clear presentations of data of any kind."
The Boston Globe
"We knew before that most cancers were due to mutations in the genes in cancer cells. Now [that we can sequence a tumor’s genes], we’re able to identify the full spectrum of mutations that have occurred in a given cancer." -MIT's Phillip A. Sharp
The Boston Globe
"In an effort to attract more high school students to science, two teams at MIT took inspiration for projects from reality TV and from online games."
Financial Times
"Scientists at Massachusetts Institute of Technology have made the first films of semiconductor nanocrystals that conduct electricity and are free of cracks."
The Economist
"A marine robot uses sonar to scan for tiny limpet mines attached to a ship’s hull. But military dolphins and sea lions are not out of a job just yet."
CNN Money
"A decade ago (MIT's Dick) Yue pushed academia to take its most valuable asset—teaching—and give it away."
The Economist
"A new type of solar panel can turn infra-red light, not just the visible sort, into electricity."
Nature
"A new high-coverage DNA sequencing method reconstructs the full genome of Denisovans — relatives to both Neandertals and humans — from genetic fragments in a single finger bone."
Wired
"A team of bioengineers has genetically engineered skeletal muscle tissue to produce a protein that reacts to light, and plans to use it to build a robot with realistic manoeuvrability."
Popular Science
"Bioengineers at MIT have genetically modified muscle cells to respond to light, which could be used to make easily controllable robot muscles that look and act like the animals on which they're based."