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Science News

"A group of prominent Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) researchers has coined a new name for research that combines disciplines—"convergence," they call it—and called for policies to support these kinds of cross-cutting studies."
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The Wall Street Journal (Asia)

"The Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Sloan School of Management made online applications mandatory in the 1990s—one of the first schools to do so. But only recently has the school eliminated paper from the admissions process."
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Inside Higher Ed

"While convergence sounds like just another interdisciplinary mash-up, it may prove to challenge traditional scientific categories, according to several panelists at a forum convened by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the American Association for the Advancement of Science."
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Here and Now

MIT Looks For Clues To Revive US Manufacturing - MIT professor Suzanne Berger is a guest on WBUR's Here and Now, speaking about MIT's manufacturing initiative.
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The New York Times

"For the last decade researchers have been exploring the possibility of building planes with hydrophobic, or water-repellent, materials that would not require de-icing. But now, researchers from M.I.T. report that this approach is flawed."
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The New York Times

"Infants as young as 7 months have the ability to perceive and understand another person’s point of view, according to a new study in the journal Science [co-authored by Ansgar Endress, a cognitive psychologist at M.I.T.]."
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Boston Magazine

"Hey, the planet’s leading center of science, technology, and precision engineering turns 150 years old only once. So you’ll forgive the lovable geeks over at MIT if they spent four years planning the Institute’s sesquicentennial celebration."
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The Boston Globe

"On Saturday, the museum will kick off the university’s yearlong 150th birthday celebration with the opening of the “MIT 150’’ exhibition."
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The New York Times

"A facial-recognition system developed at the M.I.T. Media Lab and commercialized by Affectiva tracks face movements and links them with a database of expressions."
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ABC News

"'The biggest concern among patients is, 'Am I going to wake up?' said lead study author Dr. Emery Brown, an anesthesiologist at Massachusetts General Hospital and professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology."
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The Wall Street Journal

The Public Option: Parks and Libraries Soar - The new MIT Media Lab Extension is listed as one of Wall Street Journal's most notable architectural structures of 2010.
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New Scientist

"Lawrence David and Eric Alm from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology mapped the evolutionary history of 3983 gene families that occur in a wide range of modern species. They were able to show that 27 per cent of these gene families appeared in a short evolutionary burst which began about 3.3 billion years ago."
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U.S. News & World Report (AP)

"About 27 percent of all gene families that exist today were born between 3.3 billion and 2.8 billion years ago, two researchers from MIT report online December 19 in Nature." - This article originally ran in Science News.
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The New York Times

"At the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, one experimental camera has no lens at all: it uses reflected light, computer processing and other tools to let it see around corners."
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