Scientific American
"This shift to more energy intensive agriculture implies a series of tradeoffs which are best characterized as The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly."
In the Media
The New York Times
"The initial participants are usually good dancers, but those who join in tend to be more awkward, occasionally leaning the wrong way, or flailing their hands a bit behind the beat."
USA Today
"There are many ways the microenvironment could drive cancer, says researcher Robert Weinberg, of the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, and a biology professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology."
The Boston Globe
"In July, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology-Princeton team won an award from the Association for Computing Machinery for a system of dashboard-mounted smartphones that allows users to collect information about traffic signals and slow down accordingly."
Boston.com
"The thumb-size black strip looks like a thin magnet. But in reality, it is an artificial leaf, made of silicon and capable of using sunlight to split water into hydrogen and oxygen that can be fed into fuel cells to make power."
The Huffington Post
"Within your major you'll be well known to your professors and TAs in and out of the classroom. It's a great education and definitely prepares you for either a job or continuing higher education." -MIT sophomore Lisa
The Washington Post
"The new music museum of the 21st century is high-tech, cutting-edge, interactive. It’s a place where music is made, not simply heard. It’s filled with different ways to make sounds. And chances are that Tod Machover had a hand in designing it."
Nature
"It isn't green and it doesn't grow, but the wafer sitting in a beaker of water in Dan Nocera's laboratory is remarkably like a leaf."
Slate
“'Seraph' features both human dancers and elegant, LED-bedecked quadrotors—four-bladed robotic helicopters. The bots are controlled offstage by expert quadrotors captains."
Wired
"A team of researchers have used datamining and machine learning techniques to find subtle changes in electrical activity in the heart that can be used to predict potentially fatal heart attacks."
The Wall Street Journal
"The assignment in a architecture studio at MIT two years ago was to design a house that could be built for $1,000. The twin inspirations were the charity One Laptop Per Child and the devastating 2008 earthquake in China. Last month, MIT announced that one of the students’ designs has been erected, in Mianyang, in Sicuan Province."
BBC News
"When it comes to drinking nectar, the most important factor is whether the insects dip their tongue in, or whether they suck the liquid up."
Wired
"Pablo Picasso once declared: 'Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.'"
CNN Money
"About 20% of American adults who have jobs are earning only $10.65 an hour or less, according to Osterman's analysis. Even at 40 hours a week, that amounts to less than $22,314, the poverty level for a family of four."
Reuters
"Additive manufacturing, also called '3-D printing,' is not an entirely new technology. The technique has been around for two decades, but companies have primarily used it to quickly make prototypes of new products or to produce one-of-a-kind items like custom-fit hearing aids."