CBS Boston
"The annual U.S. News & World Report rankings are out and five of the top 35 national universities are in Massachusetts."
In the Media
The Boston Globe
"Is their domination complete? Perhaps. With more reality TV shows, fragrances, clothing lines, and good hair than any one family deserves, the Kardashians now have their own units of measurement."
NBC News
"Warning: This optical illusion might give you a headache."
Wired
"MIT engineers have come up with a method of extracting clean water and reusable oil from oil spills using nanoparticles that turn the oil into magnetic ferrofluids."
NPR
"Yunior is the protagonist of Junot Diaz's first book of short stories, Drown, and the narrator of his prize-winning novel The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao."
The Guardian
"Cambridge has lost its place as the number one ranking university in the world, with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the US university that specialises in science and technology, taking over the top slot."
NBC News
"A new sensor could quickly and cheaply detect mercury and other toxic metals in rivers, lakes and fish."
The Boston Globe
"When we talk about digital gift-wrapping, what we mean is showing some effort, the same way you do when you do a great job wrapping a physical gift."
The New York Times
"An unusual new study of college students’ interactions with a robot has shed light on why we intuitively trust some people and distrust others."
BBC News
"He believes his pioneering technology - known as bionics - has the ability to tap into a under appreciated workforce who, until now, may have been unable to work."
The Economist
"Humans are peculiar as a species, so what makes them so must be hidden in their genome."
The New York Times
"Computing may be on the cusp of another such wave. This one, many researchers and entrepreneurs say, will be based on smarter machines and software that will automate more tasks and help people make better decisions in business, science and government."
The Boston Globe
"Among the factors weighing on the recovery are government job cuts, the result of the slowdown in tax collections following the recession, said Paul Osterman, a professor of management at Massachusetts Institute of Technology."
Nature
"The idea of using bacteria-fighting viruses as a weapon against hard-to-treat infections is making a surprising comeback, but with a twist on how it has been attempted for nearly a century."
BBC News
"Harvard and MIT's online university, edX, has taken a significant step forward - in a deal with Pearson to provide a global network of invigilated exam centres for online students."