Scientific American
"Researchers at MIT used real traveler patterns, geographical information and airport waiting times to predict what U.S. airports are most likely to spread an epidemic from its origin."
In the Media
The Guardian
"When the next outbreak of Sars or Swine flu hits, New York's John F Kennedy airport and Los Angeles's airports will likely be the key spreaders of disease, according to a new study."
Economist
"Unveiled last week in Delhi by Abhijit Banerjee, a famous economics professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (who called himself a 'cheerleader' for the project), along with Jairam Ramesh, an Indian cabinet minister, the blog gives economists (and other academics) in India and beyond a chance to write for non-expert readers."
Scientific American
"Despite the cancellation of the Terrestrial Planet Finder telescope, astrobiologists are modeling possible chemical biomarkers that could be used to detect indicators of life on newfound worlds."
MSNBC
"The thick, hazy atmosphere of Titan, Saturn's largest natural satellite, hides a complex moon with a perplexing geological past, a new study finds."
Nature
"In a study released last week from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), based in Cambridge, engineers show through computer modeling how major international US airports might contribute to the spread of contagious disease during the early days of an epidemic."
The New York Times
"Viewed from outside the ivory tower, a dispute among economists over ethanol’s impact on gasoline prices might be expected to proceed in a genteel manner. Instead, the debate has bubbled over."
The Wall Street Journal
"A folding electric microcar with “robot” wheels—largely developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology —has moved a step closer to reality, as a Spanish consortium has announced it will be building 20 prototypes, with minor variations, by the end of the year."
Financial Times
"At the Aspen Ideas festival, I listened to fascinating presentations from Joi Ito, head of the MIT Media Lab: this initiative, which grew out of the architecture department, aims to force different types of researchers and entrepreneurs to collide with each other."
U.S. News & World Report
"With the Great Chinese Growth Machine apparently on the verge of downshifting, it's a good time to revisit an old argument: Can China continue to expand at near double-digit pace if the Communist Party doesn't loosen its the iron grip?"
U.S. News & World Report
"Jewitt, professor of astronomy at the University of California, Los Angeles, and Jane Luu, an astronomer with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Lincoln Laboratory, always thought it unlikely that the outer solar system would be bare “when the inner solar system was so full of objects,” Jewitt says."
CommonHealth (WBUR)
"'It is a very complicated disease and these patients are in very tough shape,' said Michael Cima, the David H. Koch professor of engineering at MIT. 'There’s a real medical need.'"
New Scientist
"(Bernice) Abbott was first known for Changing New York, a collection of photographs published in 1939 that documented the Works Progress Administration relief effort during the Great Depression. Science imaging came later when, in her sixties, she began work at MIT."
The New York Times
"At the May announcement of edX, the Harvard-M.I.T. partnership that will offer free online courses with a certificate of completion, Susan Hockfield, the president of M.I.T., declared: 'Fasten your seat belts.'"
Wired
"There are autonomous cars, and there are drivers’ cars. Now we have something in the middle. Sterling Anderson and Karl Iagnemma of MIT have created a semi-autonomous driving system that gives drivers full control of the vehicle, but kicks when the car gets too close to another object."