AP at ABC
"Scientists have found a cosmic supermom. It's a galaxy that gives births to more stars in a day than ours does in a year."
In the Media
New Scientist
"Enter SPT-CLJ2344-4243, also known as the Phoenix cluster, situated 5.7 billion light years from Earth. Its central galaxy has finally been found to meet productivity standards, churning out an estimated 740 stars the size of the sun per year."
CNN
"The Olympics may be over, but in outer space, records are still being broken."
Wired
"Graphene -- the super-strong, self-healing, atom-thick material -- has a secret weapon. MIT researchers found that graphene changes its fundamental properties depending on the material beneath it."
The Wall Street Journal
"North America's massive resources are going to shift market power away from OPEC and Russia and to consuming nations." -MIT's John Deutch
Bloomberg Businessweek
"Researchers at MIT, Harvard, and Seoul National University have created a robotic worm."
Wired
"An MIT team has built a camera-free plane that can autonomously navigate its way through tight indoor spaces using only onboard sensors."
The Boston Glob
"The goal of the DARPA Phoenix program is to develop technologies to cooperatively harvest and re-use valuable components from retired, nonworking satellites in geostationary orbit and to demonstrate the ability to create new spacecraft systems at greatly reduced cost."
U.S. News & World Report
"Scientists have identified 10 new regions of DNA linked to type 2 diabetes, bringing the total number of genes and gene regions associated with the disease to more than 60."
The Huffington Post
"The muscles are soft, and the body is soft ... we're starting to show some body-morphing capability." -MIT's Sangbae Kim
Wired
"An MIT team has built a camera-free plane that can autonomously navigate its way through tight indoor spaces using only onboard sensors."
The Boston Globe
"MIT has had a glassblowing furnace in the bowels of its Building 4 for four decades."
Bloomberg News
"In asserting its claims to the tiny islands, rocks and reefs in the South China Sea, China points to records of its ancient mariners. Today, those waters are far more important to China than in the age of the sail."
The Wall Street Journal
"Hoping to speed up drug development and also make it safer and more cost-effective, researchers are at work creating what's been dubbed a 'human body on a chip.'"
The Boston Globe
"Though the Uni is becoming well-traveled, anyone who had a hand in building it will point out that it was born in Boston."