Scientific American
"Efforts to remove CO2 directly from the air are likely to prove too expensive to be practical."
In the Media
TIME Techland
"Our feeble little minds can’t process the time that light takes to fill a room, but now we can see it happen in slow-motion with help from the MIT Media Lab and its trillion frames per second camera."
AP at The Boston Globe
"Physicists are closing in on an elusive subatomic particle that, if found, would confirm a long-held understanding about why matter has mass and how the universe's fundamental building blocks behave."
The Boston Globe
"InVivo Therapeutics Holdings Corp. today congratulated company cofounder Robert S. Langer for his selection as the recipient of the 2011 the Economist annual innovation award in bioscience."
The Boston Globe
"Spurred by interest in the role proteins involved in longevity might play in protecting against neurodegenerative disease, MIT researchers began routine tests of learning and memory in mice whose brains lacked the proteins, called sirtuins."
The New York Times
"More than 70 years ago, the M.I.T. electrical engineer Harold (Doc) Edgerton began using strobe lights to create remarkable photographs: a bullet stopped in flight as it pierced an apple, the coronet created by the splash of a drop of milk."
New Scientist
"When other institutions tested the goodwill of their customers, technology-based alternatives emerged to provide a better option."
BBC News
"YouTube, the world's largest video sharing service, has launched a new school-friendly version of its site."
Bloomberg Businessweek
"A paper by a prominent team of economists says the tax rate for top U.S. earners could be hiked to 83 percent without hurting anyone but the 'mega rich.'”
NPR
"Anita Desai's new collection of stories, The Artist of Disappearance, reads a bit like three symphonic movements in a minor key."
The Economist
"Additive manufacturing, then, is changing not only how things are made, but what is made."
The Wall Street Journal
"Worried that you won’t know what to do with yourself in retirement?"
CNN Money
"The aging U.S. population is a potential gold mine for entrepreneurs who can build technologies to help this huge demographic remain active and stay in their homes as long as possible."
CNN Money
"Realizing full benefits from a smart grid ultimately means controlling devices in customers’ homes, businesses, and other facilities. But who should exercise that control, and how?"
The Boston Globe
"Clad in glass, terra cotta, and granite, the complex will also include retail shops to fill in a large hole in the commercial strip along Massachusetts Avenue, as well as a 1.35-acre park adjacent to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology."