Financial Times
"Professors from MIT Sloan and Harvard’s department of economics have scooped two of the Onassis prizes, for their work in finance and international trade."
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Boston Herald
"Massachusetts Institute of Technology President Susan Hockfield has been appointed to the National Geographic Society board of trustees, the board said today."
ABC News
"Scientists studying the power of probiotics to fight obesity got more than they bargained for: Not only does yogurt make mice slimmer; it also makes them sexier."
CNN
"As we become ever more dependent on external sources of memory -- using GPS to guide our driving, smartphones to keep our schedules -- it's time to rethink our ideas about what 'memory' actually is."
The Guardian
"Researchers have a goal so ambitious it is almost unthinkable – learning how all 85bn neurons in the human brain are wired up."
The Huffington Post
"Like the the Financial Times which has totally left the Apps platform for an enhance HTML mobile Web scenario, MIT's Technology Review has abandoned its App strategy."
The Wall Street Journal
"President Obama and others are demanding that we raise taxes on the "rich," and two recent academic papers that have gotten a lot of attention claim to show that there will be no ill effects if we do."
MSNBC
"Yes, robots are becoming real-world brain scientists."
The Wall Street Journal
"The best work I have seen on the subject is by Nancy Leveson, professor of aeronautics and astronautics and engineering systems at MIT."
The New York Times
"Should Harvard and M.I.T. offer credit for these courses and even allow students to obtain their degrees online?"
The Boston Globe
"It’s not easy, after all, to experiment on a health care system."
Boston.com
"People have told MIT’s dean of admissions, Stuart Schmill, that he reminds them of political satirist Stephen Colbert."
Financial Times
"Researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology studied the antiviral action of mucus and, in particular, the mucin molecules - long, threadlike proteins that are the main building blocks of mucus."
Financial Times
"After a financial train wreck, it’s time to begin to learn lessons from the disaster and prevent its recurrence."
The Boston Globe
"The intersection of science and art is technology."