Science
"Researchers have now discovered a gene that helps some worms to stay away from bacteria that might be bad for their health."
In the Media
Boston Herald
"Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer breaks ground Monday on a new Kendall Square research center."
Wired
"Today’s robots move about as fast as your grandma’s morning mall-walking group. Tomorrow’s robots will move as fast as Usain Bolt — all thanks to limbs modeled on ostrich legs."
Popular Science
"Research carried out by MIT and the Florida Institute of Human and Machine Cognition (IHMC) is delivering to the DoD a robotic biped that will run faster than Usain Bolt--perhaps as fast as 50 miles an hour eventually. Presenting DARPA’s robo-ostrich."
Scientific American
"A few of these conversations are more musical than the rest, including the following tidbits presented here this week on the latest research on music and the brain."
Forbes
"A research group at MIT has announced that they’ve developed a chip that mimics the synapse between neurons in the human brain."
WBUR
"The MIT aging lab is also testing devices to monitor a patient’s use of medication and movement. These allow caregivers to remotely log on and make sure a patient in the early stages of Alzheimer’s is taking medications and is safe."
The Boston Globe
"Massachusetts university and hospital officials, determined to prevent erosion of the research and development pillar of the state’s economy, have joined a lobbying slugfest over congressional efforts to slash hundreds of billions from the projected national debt."
The Boston Globe
"Embodying the everlasting respiration of culture and counterculture, Bang on a Can, the new-music collective founded by composers Michael Gordon, David Lang, and Julia Wolfe, has gone from loft-concert outsiders to new-music establishment mainstays."
Boston Herald
"A remarkable collection of documents from the 17th and 18th centuries written in Wampanoag — in-cluding the King James Bible — helped Baird and a team of top MIT linguists piece the language back together."
The Boston Globe
"As if on cue, a blaze of orange shone through the window of 77 Massachusetts Ave. and lit up the long corridor as about 100 spectators oohed and ahhed and snapped photos of the scene."
Forbes
"The future Russia is a tech powerhouse rivaling the brain trust and talents of Silicon Valley, says the country’s presidential aide Arkady Dvorkovich during the APEC Summit in Honolulu this weekend."
The Boston Globe
"You dress for the job you want, not the job you have. Everyone knows that. But what if your dream position is at Facebook? Do you wear a shapeless hoodie to the interview, the better to resemble Mark Zuckerberg?"
The Guardian
"Led by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the summit culminated with the building, in 2008, of the prototype Vision 200, a hybrid fuel-electricity car, in Turin, Italy."
FT- Financial Times
“We’ve not hit any level of equality in the division of labour in the home, so it’s not surprising that we’ve not solved the problem [of the lack of female leadership in law firms].”