The New York Times
"This holiday season, same-day shipping has replaced free shipping as the new must-have promotion."
In the Media
The Huffington Post
"With over 800 million parking spots in the U.S. and only 255 million registered cars, there should be plenty of spaces per driver in the U.S. But for many drivers, stress over finding parking is a common American woe."
The Wall Street Journal
"High-frequency trading firms are fighting to fend off regulation as scrutiny of their practice of unleashing blizzards of orders coincides with repeated technical glitches in the markets."
Bloomberg News
"Ever since the invention of the wheel in Mesopotamia around 3500 B.C., technological innovation has been improving our lives."
Forbes
"As we come to the end of the year, we reflect on what inventive concepts, ingredients, designs and cutting edge technologies the world of food and drink has brought us over the last 360 plus days."
Bloomberg News
"The National Bureau of Economic Research declared that the U.S. recession ended in June 2009, yet 2012 didn’t look like much of a resurgence."
The Chronicle of Higher Education
"President Obama on Friday named a dozen researchers and 11 inventors as winners of this year’s National Medal of Science and National Medal of Technology and Innovation, the country’s highest honors for scientists, inventors, and engineers."
The Boston Globe
"All three accidents could have been avoided — if the Green Line were equipped with an automated system to track and control trains to prevent train-to-train collisions and derailments when drivers speed or miss track signals that look like traffic lights."
The New York Times
"I’m one of those odd people who read chemistry books for fun at that age." -MIT's Maria Zuber
The Boston Globe
"Forbes put out its '30 Under 30' feature this week, explained as its hot list of 'young disruptors, innovators and entrepreneurs . . . impatient to change the world.'"
Nature News
"Now several teams have solid evidence that quantum physics does indeed embody a level of complexity that classical computers could never match."
Forbes
"Her research at MIT involves devising next-generation solar cells that are built by printing layers of nanoscale materials like quantum dots and chromophores, or color molecules, and combining them with optoelectronic materials."
The Huffington Post
"Gun reform is needed but a larger conversation is called for." -MIT's Robert M. Randolph
NBC News
"If just one percent of drivers from commuter-heavy neighborhoods stayed off the road during rush hour, traffic congestion for everyone else would drop up to 18 percent, according to a first-of-its-kind analysis of cellphone data."
AP at The Boston Globe
"A pair of NASA spacecraft tumbled out of orbit around the moon and crashed back-to-back into the surface on Monday, ending a mission that peered into the lunar interior."