BBC News
"Engineers have created a robot that mimics a worm's movements - crawling along surfaces by contracting segments of its body."
In the Media
Nature News
"When Alan Guth received an e-mail from a colleague asking if he could discuss a new annual prize in physics, he recalls, 'I thought I was being asked to be on an organizing committee.'"
Nature
"Mechanical instability is usually a problem that engineers try to avoid. But now some are using it to fold, stretch and crumple materials in remarkable ways."
New Scientist
"When it comes to woodworking, a board cut a few millimetres too long or too short can make the difference between a work of art and a pile of firewood. For a lot of us, this small margin of error can turn the making of even the simplest picture frame or birdhouse seem akin to painting the Mona Lisa."
UPI
"Increased temperatures from climate warming will hurt poor countries and limit their long-term growth, a U.S. researcher says."
Wired
"The web has changed a lot since Tim Berners-Lee posted, on this day, the first webpages summarizing his World Wide Web project, a method of storing knowledge using hypertext documents."
Forbes
"A new research paper that examines data from 68 branches of a large U.S. bank shows that women managers do not remedy problems of gender inequality in the workplace."
CNN
"Oscar Pistorius, the South African amputee who is running in the 2012 Olympics on prosthetic legs, might be surprised to learn he is part of a history that traces back 3,500 years."
MSNBC
"There’s hope yet for the fat-fingered set who want to try their hands at precision craftsmanship thanks to a new tool that combines manual and automatic positioning to cut things according to a digital plan."
The Boston Globe
"Researchers at MIT’s Media Lab develop ‘glasses-free’ technology."
The Boston Globe
"'Touchdown confirmed,' Chen announced shortly after 10:30 p.m. West Coast time, as those gathered in a Pasadena, Calif., control room burst into celebration. Curiosity, the space program’s $2.6 billion rover, had landed on Mars."
The Huffington Post
"Nearly one in two Americans -- 46 percent -- die 'with virtually no financial assets,' or less than $10,000, according to a recent study by economics professors at MIT, Dartmouth and Harvard."
The New York Times
"As reported last fall, Dr. Conrad had bet her colleague Frank Wilczek, a physics Nobelist in 2004, 10 chocolate Nobel coins that the Standard Model Higgs boson did not exist. On July 4 she realized she was going to have to pay."
AP at Bloomberg Businessweek
"More than 120 universities have expressed interest in joining the consortium, said edX President Anant Agarwal, who heads MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory."
The New York Times
"China is the center of an East Asian production and supply network. That, as much as cheap labor, gives it a daunting advantage." -MIT's Yasheng Huang