In the Media

"Whenever there’s an extreme weather event, from a hurricane to a record drought, the question always arises: Is it climate change?"

"With millions of Baby Boomer drivers reaching retirement age, it’s an urgent priority to do something about the fact that vision is one of the first things to deteriorate as we age."

"Now comes the arduous task of sorting through the debris and cleaning up. Some people will have to leave their homes while repairs are made and floodwaters recede. That's where SandyCrashPads could come in."

"Hate the way bandages hurt when you take them off? There’s a new 'quick release' medical tape that could take the pain out of keeping wounds covered."

"A framework that relies on college-level mathematics could describe what happens to particles in so-called space-time rips, gravity fluctuations such as those that occur during the birth of a black hole."

"'It's the sustain! It's never done that before!' Imogen Heap breaks out of a captivating performance of a song written just three weeks ago for a piece of tech she's had to wait two-and-a-half years to get her hands on."

"Andrew Lo, economist, hedge fund manager and finance professor at MIT Sloan, plans to apply financial engineering, the sector he knows best, to the search for a cure for cancer."

"Sandy is expected to linger for days, thanks to "blocking patterns" that make weather systems move slowly. Climate change will create more such situations in future, says Kerry Emanuel at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 'We expect that hurricanes may move more slowly in the future than they do now.'"

"For all of the talk about the disappearance of manners and the coarsening of society, Americans don't seem to mind lining up in orderly fashion – for a good reason."

"Scientists have mapped a tiny roundworm's entire nervous system. Did it teach them anything about its behavior?"

"The Robert A. and Renee E. Belfer Family Foundation has donated $25 million for research on Alzheimer’s and other neurodegenerative diseases."

"The underrepresentation of women in science and mathematics is well documented, but it may come as a surprise to many people that men also far outnumber women in certain humanities disciplines, including philosophy and history."

"Run by Dr. Howard Shrobe, an M.I.T. computer scientist who is now a Darpa program manager, the effort began with a premise: If the computer industry got a do-over, what should it do differently?"

"Things have improved on campus; I am proud to have helped enroll a student body in which 45 percent of our undergraduates—and 44 percent of our STEM majors—are women." -MIT's Matt McGann

"The term “hacker” was popularized in Steven Levy’s 1984 book 'Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution.' It described an early generation of M.I.T. students who did not break into computers and networks — or black hats — but instead were passionate programmers and hardware tinkerers."