The Boston Globe
"The Nobel Prizes have more history behind them, but a new generation of life science prizes awarded Wednesday to two local scientists has a bigger payday: at $3 million per prize, more than twice the money."
In the Media
Nature
"The prospect of carbon taxes and cap-and-trade markets has led industry groups around the world to adopt green or sustainable cement initiatives. Their approaches range from supporting basic research to pushing to reform international building codes, and, if successful, could eventually cut the cement industry's carbon dioxide footprint by half."
AFP
"Dark matter throws down the gauntlet to the so-called Standard Model of physics."
Wired.co.uk
"MIT and the US Army wanted to prove that they could fabricate a uniform that included a kind of fibre optic-like thread developed through a joint effort that should allow soldiers' threads to detect light, heat and sound."
The Boston Globe
"In 2011, Boston’s public and private organizations received more than 3,600 grants for a total combined award of $1.7 billion."
UPI
"U.S. researchers say a new chip providing 'computational photography' can convert smartphone snapshots into professional-looking photographs in seconds."
The Boston Globe
"Bruker Corp., Billerica-based maker of scientific instruments, announced the election of Marc Kastner to its board of directors, replacing Charles F. Wagner Jr., who stepped down from the board in the summer in order to become Bruker’s new chief financial officer."
MarketWatch
"Since the onset of the global financial crisis in 2007-08, the administration and the Federal Reserve have implemented policies explicitly designed to spur investment, grow GDP, and reduce unemployment. These actions haven’t worked — certainly not as expected."
Forbes
"Payscale.com has released their annual 2012 ROI Rankings of the 850 colleges with the best return on investment based on the sticker price you pay to attend versus what you get back in lifetime earnings (over 30 years)."
Scientific American
"The search for clean energy sources has brought us this: tiny pieces of curling plastic powered by moisture."
The Boston Globe
"Most people associate science with technical equipment: goggles, lasers, microscopes, or knee-length lab coats. For me, science really can’t be done without a far more basic piece of equipment: the dry-erase marker."
The Washington Post
"But, from the halls of MIT to the boardrooms of Silicon Valley, business and academic leaders are more focused on what they call an even greater threat to the U.S. economy: immigration laws that chase away highly skilled foreigners educated in U.S. universities, often with degrees funded by U.S. taxpayers."
CNN
"CNNi talks to MIT's Richard Binzel about an asteroid that passed by Earth on Friday."
New Scientist
"Can you imagine feeling Earth's magnetic field on the tip of your tongue?"
Financial Times
"'I think the US airline industry has a way to go to be more profitable,' he added."