US News & World Report
"A daily drink combining several nutrients appears to help people with early Alzheimer's disease improve their memory, a new study suggests."
In the Media
The Huffington Post
"The presidents of 122 American universities signed a letter addressed to President Obama and four other government officials requesting the creation of new legislature that would change the current policy surrounding international student visas."
The Boston Globe
"The focus on efficiency is being driven by the increasing need for more computing power, which can be expensive, said Claude Canizares, vice president for research and associate provost at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology."
New Scientist
"Technology has long promised a revolution in 'smart medicine', allowing painful pokes and prods to be replaced with faster, more accurate and non-invasive ways of diagnosing a range of diseases."
Reuters
"The Syrian people should be left to choose their leader in elections due in 2014 and until then countries should avoid aggravating the bloodshed by interfering on the ground, Iran's Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi (-an MIT alum-) said on Monday."
CNN
"According to the NRC, (MIT alum Allison) Macfarlane is the third woman to lead the agency and the only member with a background in geology to serve on the commission."
The Wall Street Journal
"Employees at the General Electric Co. plant here are working on a tricky problem: how to mass produce parts from materials so new to jet engines, and so fragile to work with, that they must first learn by hand how to build them."
CNN
"Imagine the top three things that might make you happier and more productive at the office."
The New York Times
"The fate of Lambert-St. Louis International Airport may be a portent for other airports serving smaller cities around the United States."
Bloomberg
"On July 3, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. and the Federal Reserve made public portions of the 'living wills' developed recently by major U.S. financial institutions. The documents are the first suggestions from those organizations of what they believe should happen when insolvency looms." -MIT's Simon Johnson
Los Angeles Times
"Marketing experts determined years ago that 'customers actively avoid looking at online banner ads,' as Catherine Tucker of MIT and Avi Goldfarb of the University of Toronto observed in a scholarly study last year."
The Wall Street Journal
"At the same time, Massachusetts Institute of Technology economist David Autor notes an increase in personal-service jobs—the ones that can't be done remotely from overseas and can't easily be done by machines."
WBUR
"To sort through the rubble of the LIBOR scandal and find out more about potential fallout, weekends on All Things Considered host Guy Raz talked with Matt Taibbi, a contributing editor at Rolling Stone, and MIT economist Simon Johnson. Johnson's most recent book, White House Burning, is about America's national debt."
The Boston Globe
"Professor Andrew Lo of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Sloan School of Management said the scandal could have far-reaching effects since Libor influences so much of the global financial system."
Scientific American
"A team of researchers at MIT has developed a way to use atom-thin sheets of graphene for water filtration, which could lead to an inexpensive and energy-efficient way to desalinate seawater."