In the Media

"Gradual exits from long careers are becoming increasingly attractive to older workers and employers as both try to navigate an uncertain economy, changing workforce, and evolving views of retirement."

"A Spanish entrepreneur wants to give you a glimpse of the black expanse of space and the curvature of the earth from a most unusual vantage point — a balloon."

"Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have developed a method of storing energy generated by off-shore wind turbines that could solve this problem. Dubbed the Ocean Renewable Energy System (ORES), the system is based on an underwater pumped hydraulic system."

"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."

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

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

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

"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."

"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."

"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."