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Science

Science reporter Erik Stokstad writes about the U.S. Agency for International Development’s announcement that a select group of universities, including MIT, has been awarded grants to create “development labs” aimed at improving health and reducing poverty in developing countries.
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BBC News

"One of the biggest efforts to rethink the airplane is being conducted by Nasa’s Subsonic Fixed-Wing program, a collaboration between the US aerospace agency and industrial partners including Boeing, GE, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman and Pratt & Whitney, as well as academic institutions such as Massachusetts Institute of Technology."
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The Boston Globe

"The long summaries increased what is known as the 'service time' for the queue, said Richard Larson, an MIT professor who is a specialist in the science and psychology of waiting in line, known as queueing theory. He estimated that the ballot questions ­accounted for 90 percent of the service time at Massachusetts polls, as most voters know which candidate they are voting for."
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Popular Science

"Many have wondered (and theorized) what it would be like to travel at the speed of light, but over at MIT’s Game Lab developers are envisioning what it would be like if light moved at the speed of you."
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New Scientist

"The black hole at the centre of our galaxy isn't growing old gracefully."
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Boston Herald

"A new algorithm developed by an MIT professor and his student can predict, hours in advance, which Twitter topics will be the subject of a sudden explosion in tweets."
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Popular Science

"There's a small electrical charge living in your cochlea, and it can power electronics."
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CNN Money

"The AgeLab's work is eclectic -- one of Coughlin's research specialties is the driving ability of older people -- tapping fields from engineering to psychology to find insights into ways people can live better as they age."
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Popular Science

"If you don’t have legs, you can propel yourself by deforming your body. Earthworms do this through peristaltic locomotion: The muscles in one body segment contract while others relax, which creates a traveling wave that moves them forward. Our robot, Meshworm, moves this way, using wires for muscles." -MIT's Sangbae Kim
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Wonkblog (Washington Post)

"Many Americans can already pay their utilities online and bank online. Why can’t we vote over the Internet as well?"
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Scientific American

"Sun-dimming industrial pollution in China or signs that greenhouse gases trap less heat in the atmosphere than expected may help explain an apparent slowdown in global warming since 2000, experts say."
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Boston Magazine

"First, a poll’s margin of error is there because we can’t ask everyone in the country who they are voting for every day."
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Financial Times

"Some business schools have established leadership in 'idea generation' at the nexus of IT and business. One making efforts to keep pace with technological innovation is the MIT Sloan School of Management, in Massachusetts, which established the MIT Center for Digital Business in 1999."
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USA Today

"The metal on Zac Vawter bionic leg gleamed as he climbed 103 floors of Chicago's iconic Willis Tower, becoming the first person ever to complete the task wearing a mind-controlled prosthetic limb."
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Wired.co.uk

"If only cyclists and motorists could read each other's minds. Arlene Ducao agrees -- so she has built a wearable mind-reading device."
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