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In the Media

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The Washington Post with Bloomberg

"Diamond’s particular areas of expertise -- labor markets and pension programs, notably -- are unusually salient right now. I reached him at his home in New Hampshire to get his take on the continuing economic crisis."
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Wired UK

"Researchers from MIT have created a handheld device called GelSight that provides ultra-high resolution 3D scans of microscopic surface structure."
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New Scientist

"A powerful imaging device, known as GelSight, uses a slab of rubber coated with metal to trace a terrain of printed words in micrometre-scale resolution."
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Popular Science

"The resulting high-quality, 3-D models can be manipulated on a computer screen to a variety of ends ranging from quality control to criminal forensics to dermatology."
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The Huffington Post

"Harvard and MIT researchers have worked together to develop a special gel that is injected into scarred and damaged vocal cords to restore their function by allowing the cords to vibrate again."
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Slate

"Gruber decided to remain in academia, but Washington's potential ability to implement the changes he was proposing in research paper after research paper continued to interest him."
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Boston.com

"But intrigued by the sheer complexity of concrete, Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers have been leveraging the tools of statistical physics, materials science, chemistry, and civil engineering to find ways to make the most widely used man-made material on earth more environmentally friendly."
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Science

"Researchers have found that the tiny, oxygen-dependent fungi can churn out some of their most basic building blocks using only trace amounts of the gas."
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Scientific American

"Programs that build satellites from commonly available electronics are making satellite manufacture available to developing nations."
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Scientific American

"If everybody aims to use cheap electricity, the slow time in the middle of the night becomes the high demand time. In the worst case, everybody's laptops start recharging, refrigerator compressors kick on, dishwashers start up and so on, at the exact same moment."
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Wired

"It was August 6, 1991, at a CERN facility in the Swiss Alps, when 36-year-old physicist Tim Berners-Lee published the first-ever website."
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The Huffington Post

"With the United States government now shorn of its top credit rating by Standard & Poor's, experts are increasingly worried that the American economy is headed back into recession, while Europe appears vulnerable to another shock."
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NPR

"NASA's space shuttle may be down for the count, but robotic planetary missions are up, up and away. Before the end of this year, three new solar system probes are due to launch."
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MSNBC

"Recognizing written words is tough enough for people with dyslexia. But a new study suggests the disorder might also make it harder to recognize the voices of people as they speak."
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This American Life

"In the world of engineers and investors, there's something called the "elevator pitch." It's what you'd say if you ran into a rich investor in an elevator, and had only 60 seconds to sell your product. The concept is so common that MIT actually hosts a contest for the best elevator pitch."
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