The Boston Globe
“The country has had a hard time accepting the science of climate change, and I think that makes it challenging to talk about politically.” -Michael Greenstone
In the Media
New Scientist
"Created by Russ Tedrake from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and colleagues, the computer-controlled plane can perform hair-raising rolls while flying at high speed to dart between obstacles."
Popular Science
"A Russian physics student turned social media billionaire just made theoretical physics the most lucrative thing in science, heaping $3 million apiece on nine researchers."
The Washington Post
"We now have a study suggesting, optimistically, that proper incentives can concentrate new technologies on the patients who might most benefit."
The Economist
"The idea of using aquatic robots to search for the mines instead is alluring, but it is difficult to teach machines how to navigate around hulls without crashing into them or getting lost."
The New York Times
"Several of the winners said they hoped that the new prize, with its large cash award, would help raise recognition of physics and draw more students into the field."
The Washington Post
"As environmentalists and industry groups bicker over the costs and benefits of pollution rules, a new study finds that we may actually be underestimating the value of clean air in at least one respect: Cutting pollution can allow people to spend less on prescription drugs."
Bloomberg TV
"MIT Finance Professor Andrew Lo discusses the volatility of volatility."
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."
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."
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."
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."
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.'"
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."
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."