"Reimer and a team of MIT researchers studied the behavior of 108 Greater Boston drivers. About half acknowledged frequent phone use when driving; the rest said they rarely used their phones behind the wheel."
"In a study published this spring in Nano Letters, researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology reported developing injectable nanoscale particles containing all the biological equipment needed to produce proteins."
"Bad news for those comforted by laws that restrict cell phone use while driving: it’s not the technology causing the problems, it’s the aggressive, bad drivers, a new report from MIT suggests."
"I can’t even imagine life without writing, so inextricably is it a part of my life, almost like breathing, or eating, or any of the things you need to keep alive. I think it is the impulse to find some kind of design or order in the chaos of life, over which one has so little control." -MIT's Anita Desai
"The biggest gains for American manufacturing will come not from replacing humans, but from using robots to help people do their best work." -MIT's Julie Shah
"Despite the ongoing national political dissension over climate change, Boston and Cambridge, among other cities around the world, are searching for ways to cope with its effects."
"Although more than 120 universities worldwide have expressed interest in collaborating with the service, edX will begin offering courses from three universities in fall 2012; the University of California—Berkeley being the third."