Reuters
"President Barack Obama is considering naming nuclear physicist Ernest Moniz, one of his science and energy advisers, as the next energy secretary, sources familiar with the matter told Reuters on Wednesday."
In the Media
The Boston Globe
"In short, the classes, which take place over three days, help them develop an outer polish to match their intellectual brilliance, with a goal of providing skills to get and keep jobs."
The New York Times
"The flaws in the American election system are deep and widespread, extending beyond isolated voting issues in a few locations and flaring up in states rich and poor, according to a major new study from the Pew Charitable Trusts."
San Jose Mecury News
"The tiny creatures that sustain our oceans may have a sophisticated way to communicate, according to new research."
The New York Times
This infographic displays "the average length of time that different groups waited to vote in 2012, according to a survey of 10,200 people across the country."
Bloomberg Businessweek
"The ranking is based on student responses to the question asking them to rank their program’s coverage of information technology, an area where few schools truly excel."
The Washington Post
"From an environmental perspective, the only thing that feels good about plastic is the recycling icon found on so many items."
The Boston Globe
"Last week marked one of the quirkiest events on the Boston calendar: MIThenge, the twice-a-year occasion when the sunset shoots straight through the door at the end of MIT’s Infinite Corridor."
USA Today
"Obama awarded the National Medal of Science to 12 researchers, and the National Medal of Technology and Innovation to 11 inventors."
CBS News
"President Obama today awarded 23 researchers and inventors with national medals for science, technology and innovation, lauding the recipients for their hard work and contributions, and joking that they represented 'the greatest collection of brainpower we've had under this roof in a long time.'"
The New York Times
"Jacob J. Lew, the president’s nominee for Treasury secretary, and Mary Jo White, the nominee for chairwoman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, are making financial reformers nervous."
WBUR
"'People think they have this enormous capacity to juggle multiple balls in the air,' says Earl Miller, a professor at The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory at MIT. 'They actually can only juggle very few.'"
CNN Money
"Gordan Moore had his own law for chips, and some in the solar sector talk about a Swanson’s Law for the dropping cost of solar, but folks at MIT will use close to $500K to study the tech evolution process of solar and to create an overarching theory."
Bloomberg Businessweek
"Toledano, a 36-year-old master’s degree candidate at the MIT Media Lab in Cambridge, Mass., has built an Android app, Air Mobs, which—were it ever released—would allow you to sell wireless bandwidth to a stranger near you in return for credits allowing you to buy bandwidth from another stranger in the future."
Wired
"Using a pixel-magnifying algorithm, a team from MIT and Quanta Research Cambridge demonstrates how amplified video can be used to determine such things as heart rate...from afar."