The Wall Street Journal
"Could a car that knows when you are stressed or ill save you from having an accident? Auto makers are stepping up efforts to find out."
In the Media
The Wall Street Journal
"Auto makers are researching technology that could feed your heart rate, blood pressure and other biometric responses into the car's computers, the better to determine when you're drowsy or overwhelmed with distracting media. MIT researcher Bryan Reimer and WSJ's Joe White has details on Lunch Break."
Wired.co.uk
"His goal: to blur the lines between human disability and human augmentation, using technology."
CNN Money
"Improving cell efficiency is important for lowering the cost of producing solar electricity."
The Huffington Post
"Not long ago we had to creatively generate data to inform strategy, planning, decisions and public policy. Today we are swimming in data." -MIT's Joe Coughlin
The New York Times
"For the first time, researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology report, brain imaging has been able to show in living patients the progressive damage Parkinson’s disease causes to two small structures deep in the brain."
The Wall Street Journal
"Scientists are studying how to tap the energy naturally created by people's bodies—such as heat, sound and movement—to power medical devices without the need to change batteries."
Reuters
"Roberto Rigobon, a professor at MIT's Sloan School of Business said investors may the advertisements 'more as polarized political discussion than feel roused to call their senators.'"
The New York Times
"How do you take particles in a test tube, or components in a tiny chip, and turn them into a $100 million company? Dr. Robert Langer, 64, knows how."
The Economist
"Paul Osterman, an MIT professor who studies part-time and low-wage work, notes that Walmart comes out of the rural south, infertile ground for unionising, but is trying to move into more heavily unionised cities, particularly in the north-east."
BBC News
"Adam Shaw checks out the Q Sensor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a wireless sensor, which measures electricity conducted through the skin."
The Boston Globe
"Since 2003, its researchers have used randomized trials to figure out which interventions help the poor the most."
Wired.co.uk
"How hard does star US basketball player Kobe Bryant dunk? Add aerospace tech to a basketball net and you can find out, right down to the joule."
The Boston Globe
"For universities, reduced funding means taking on fewer graduate students and postdocs, closing the pipeline to a generation of scientists, said Claude Canizares, vice president for research at MIT, which gets much of its research funding from the Pentagon."
Nature News
"Sangeeta Bhatia, a biomedical engineer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is also taking inspiration from information technology and other fields. She is emulating natural systems and robotics to make smart cocktails of cancer therapeutics that communicate with each other to 'swarm' to tumours."