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The Boston Globe

"'Touchdown confirmed,' Chen announced shortly after 10:30 p.m. West Coast time, as those gathered in a Pasadena, Calif., control room burst into celebration. Curiosity, the space program’s $2.6 billion rover, had landed on Mars."
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The Huffington Post

"Nearly one in two Americans -- 46 percent -- die 'with virtually no financial assets,' or less than $10,000, according to a recent study by economics professors at MIT, Dartmouth and Harvard."
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The New York Times

"As reported last fall, Dr. Conrad had bet her colleague Frank Wilczek, a physics Nobelist in 2004, 10 chocolate Nobel coins that the Standard Model Higgs boson did not exist. On July 4 she realized she was going to have to pay."
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AP at Bloomberg Businessweek

"More than 120 universities have expressed interest in joining the consortium, said edX President Anant Agarwal, who heads MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory."
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The New York Times

"China is the center of an East Asian production and supply network. That, as much as cheap labor, gives it a daunting advantage." -MIT's Yasheng Huang
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The Washington Post

"A new study finds that more than 46 percent of Americans die with less than $10,000 in financial assets, with many spending the end of their life strongly dependent on the government."
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Wired

"A pair of MIT mechanical engineering students has developed the first truly portable 3D printer, which fits neatly into a metal briefcase."
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Forbes

"Eric von Hippel of MIT, as I’ve discussed, has highlighted the importance of 'field discovery' – practitioners working on problems they encounter — in driving medical innovation."
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The Huffington Post

"New technology will no doubt ease the burdens of tomorrow's seniors...But technology alone is not enough, writes Joseph Coughlin, director of the AgeLab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology."
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The New York Times

"Do you think cutting-edge scientists should earn as much as star athletes, celebrity artists or Wall Street bankers?"
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USA Today

"Among the myriad chest-tightening, tear-jerking stories being told of athletes overcoming hardship at the 2012 Olympics, it's hard to compete with the one about a sprinter standing proudly atop carbon-fiber legs."
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Financial Times

"We and others are discovering the specific functions of specific groups of neurons with more precision than is possible in any other way." -Ed Boyden
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The Boston Globe

“The country has had a hard time accepting the science of climate change, and I think that makes it challenging to talk about politically.” -Michael Greenstone
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New Scientist

"Created by Russ Tedrake from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and colleagues, the computer-controlled plane can perform hair-raising rolls while flying at high speed to dart between obstacles."
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Popular Science

"A Russian physics student turned social media billionaire just made theoretical physics the most lucrative thing in science, heaping $3 million apiece on nine researchers."
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