Wired
"A team of exometeorologists at MIT have calculated the size of the snowflakes that fall onto the polar regions of Mars in its winter, and it turns out that they're pretty tiny."
In the Media
Wired
"A team of exometeorologists at MIT have calculated the size of the snowflakes that fall onto the polar regions of Mars in its winter, and it turns out that they’re pretty tiny."
The Huffington Post
"Harvard University has teamed up with Massachusetts Institution of Technology in an 'historic' partnership to launch the online education centre 'edX'. The project, which launches this autumn, aims to offer education on a mass scale."
Nature
"On 29 May, a small asteroid called 2012 KT42 came close to striking Earth, but slipped past at three Earth radii — the sixth closest encounter of any known asteroid."
BBC News
"This autumn more than a million students are going to take part in an experiment that could re-invent the landscape of higher education."
Forbes
"The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation put two stakes in the ground yesterday in support of next-generation digital learning: one in the postsecondary school space and another in secondary schools."
The Boston Globe
"Welcome to Amphibious Achievement, an MIT program that blends swimming and rowing with a rigorous academic component that promotes an environment of achievement for inner-city Boston high school students."
Forbes
"It’s easy to draw a cartoon of a car that folds into a suitcase, but harder when having to conform to the actual laws of physics."
Forbes
"Any material that has even the tiniest bit of conductive capability can be a touch sensor with the Makey Makey."
Scientific American
"We built our first sweatband sensor to get emotional information from autistic children outside the lab. But then one of my undergrad researchers asked if he could borrow a wristband for his little brother who had autism." -MIT's Rosalind Picard
The Chronicle of Higher Education
"After all, you can’t wrestle an octopus: There’s so much information (and misinformation) about colleges out there that nobody could ever keep up with it all."
The Chronicle of Higher Education
"The grant is focused on an effort to help colleges serving low-income students teach an official course based around MITx materials, using an approach called the 'flipped classroom.'"
The Wall Street Journal
"America has a wealth of natural gas in the ground. So, how do we get it into our cars?"
The Chronicle of Higher Education
"Stephen E. Carson, external-relations director at MIT OpenCourseWare, the free online publication of the university's lectures and other course materials, says peer learning is a natural extension of the first wave of open-course initiatives, which have focused on getting content out to large audiences at little or no cost."
The Takeaway
"One of my themes of these last almost eight years has been taking the basket off the lamp and letting our beacon of inspiration shine more brightly." — Susan Hockfield