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Forbes

"Specifically, a team of MIT researchers led by Professor Alexander 'Sandy' Pentland discovered that call center workers who took the time to converse with their co-workers, instead of just grinding away, got through calls faster, felt less tension and earned the same approval ratings as their peers who didn’t schmooze at the office."
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The Boston Globe

"The winners of the Knight News Challenge: Networks were revealed Monday at the MIT-Knight Civic Media Conference at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The challenge is one of three being held by the foundation this year, each designed to promote innovations in the dissemination of news and information."
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Science

"For centuries, humans have used the power of their brains to solve complex mysteries, create radical new inventions, and devise wondrous works of art. But now, scientists have developed a technology that enables us to use our brains to actually harvest electrical power."
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The New York Times

"What does your technology want from you?"
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Financial Times

"The next step is urbanites using technology to help run their cities."
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The Boston Globe

"(MIT's Eric) Alm is among a small but growing cadre of scientists who are using themselves as research subjects. They are taking advantage of faster and cheaper technologies, ranging from custom apps on smartphones to gene sequencing, in order to monitor aspects of their behavior and biology in unprecedented detail."
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The Takeaway

"In the video below, I asked President Hockfield, who is retiring from MIT at the end of the month, to do a little college calculation for us."
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The Huffington Post

"A new MIT fuel cell could extend that futuristic idea to humans by drawing its power from the fluid surrounding the human brain."
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Wired

"Among the youngest of startups, the most prestigious award is to win the MIT $100K Entrepreneurship Competition, which recognizes pure potential only in its quest to find the greatest business plan on earth, or at least among the MIT community."
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Wired

"The prostheses of the future will be powered by spinal fluid."
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New Scientist

"Manipulating blurry digital images in TV programmes like CSI often produces unfeasibly clear pictures of a suspect's face, but it turns out that it is possible to extract important forensic details from shadowy images after all."
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AP at Huffington Post

"Now scientists have mapped just which critters normally live in or on us and where, calculating that healthy people can share their bodies with more than 10,000 species of microbes."
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Scientific American

"Meet (MIT sophomore) Sabrina Pasterski, 19, one of the up-and-coming physicists attending this year's Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting."
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The Huffington Post

"Why does over 20 percent of the population still think that vaccines cause autism? And what happens when parents act on their fears, refusing to inoculate their own children against dangerous diseases like measles, mumps, and rubella?"
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MSNBC

"Researchers have programmed a robot to learn how a mechanic likes to work, then to help the mechanic without breaking his or her rhythm. The researchers hope to see robot assistants working side by side with people someday, helping with small tasks."
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