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The Huffington Post

"MIT political scientist Adam Berinsky, who is now conducting research on misperceptions, commissioned a YouGov poll earlier this month tracking support for the false claim that President Obama was not born in the United States."
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Forbes

"A multi-university research team of astronomers have examined data from NASA’s Kepler space telescope, and discovered a solar system where the planets orbit the sun in ways that are very similar that planets in our own solar system do."
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TIME

"When astronomers began discovering exoplanets — worlds orbiting other stars — they expected those solar systems to follow the local model. But that's not how things turned out."
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U.S. News & World Report

"Often dubbed the 'Queen of Carbon Science,' Dresselhaus, 81, a longtime Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor, is regarded as a leader in the field of condensed matter and materials physics, and an expert on all the multi-faceted forms of carbon from its largest sizes to its tiniest."
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The Chronicle of Higher Education

"The new platform, called CourseSharing, allows students to complete multiple-choice assignments online and receive automated grades and feedback as soon as they click 'submit.'"
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CNN

"It may not be the coughing, sneezing passenger next to you on your next flight who is spreading disease, it could be the airport you just took off from."
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The Boston Globe

"Local scientists are among the leaders of a new national initiative to build 'organs on a chip' - living human tissue on a miniature platform that could be used to test potential medications for side effects, overcoming a major hurdle in drug development."
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The Washington Post

"Twenty-one mathematicians, theoretical physicists and theoretical computer scientists have been awarded more than $500,000 each in grants. The awards were announced Tuesday."
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Reuters

"A seven metric ton particle detector parked for over a year on the International Space Station (ISS) aims to establish whether there is an unseen 'dark universe' woven into the cosmos, the scientist leading the project said on Wednesday."
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CBS News

"Astronomers have discovered an alien solar system whose planets are arranged much like those in our own solar system, a find that suggests most planetary systems start out looking the same, scientists say."
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The Boston Globe

"Clinton singled out MIT for the 'best technology transfer program in the country,' saying that the university allows start-ups to use technology developed there for free in exchange for a piece of the company."
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The Chronicle of Higher Education

"'We really want to expand and add universities,' said Anant Agarwal, who leads the edX project and who is director of MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. 'Berkeley is the first one, the first of many.'"
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The Boston Globe

"EdX, a joint venture established this spring by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University to offer free online classes, is getting a high-profile West Coast partner: the University of California, Berkeley."
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The New York Times

"This fall, edX will offer seven MOOCs: artificial intelligence and software engineering from Berkeley, computer science and biostatistics and epidemiology from Harvard, and an introduction to solid state chemistry and an introduction to computer science and programming from M.I.T., along with another round of the circuits course it offered as a prototype."
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Forbes

"But actual contact between charger and device was required until 2006, when Marin Soljačić, a professor at MIT, demonstrated that he could light a lamp from a distance of six feet without a power cord."
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