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Bloomberg

"Experimental solar cells made with two types of pure carbon absorb infrared sunlight that traditional silicon panels ignore and may eventually be used to improve efficiency, according to researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology."
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The New York Times

"'Joi Ito and Brian McAndrews bring deep digital experience to the board of the Times Company, which will be invaluable as we continue our digital transformation,' Arthur Sulzberger Jr., chairman and chief executive of The New York Times Company, said in a statement."
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PBS

"The MIT-Knight Civic Media Conference has just wrapped up in Cambridge, Mass., and Michael Maness, who leads Knight's Journalism and Media Innovation program, gave a closing presentation that highlighted key quotes and ideas that grabbed people's attention over the duration of the event."
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The New York Times

"The fuel is cheap and plentiful. But there is little infrastructure to deliver it to users, and so there is little demand for equipment to use it. That, in brief, is what is wrong with the natural gas vehicle market."
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BBC News

"This autumn more than a million students are going to take part in an experiment that could re-invent the landscape of higher education."
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Wired

"A team of exometeorologists at MIT have calculated the size of the snowflakes that fall onto the polar regions of Mars in its winter, and it turns out that they're pretty tiny."
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Wired

"A team of exometeorologists at MIT have calculated the size of the snowflakes that fall onto the polar regions of Mars in its winter, and it turns out that they’re pretty tiny."
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The Huffington Post

"Harvard University has teamed up with Massachusetts Institution of Technology in an 'historic' partnership to launch the online education centre 'edX'. The project, which launches this autumn, aims to offer education on a mass scale."
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Nature

"On 29 May, a small asteroid called 2012 KT42 came close to striking Earth, but slipped past at three Earth radii — the sixth closest encounter of any known asteroid."
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BBC News

"This autumn more than a million students are going to take part in an experiment that could re-invent the landscape of higher education."
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Forbes

"The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation put two stakes in the ground yesterday in support of next-generation digital learning: one in the postsecondary school space and another in secondary schools."
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The Boston Globe

"Welcome to Amphibious Achievement, an MIT program that blends swimming and rowing with a rigorous academic component that promotes an environment of achievement for inner-city Boston high school students."
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Forbes

"It’s easy to draw a cartoon of a car that folds into a suitcase, but harder when having to conform to the actual laws of physics."
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Forbes

"Any material that has even the tiniest bit of conductive capability can be a touch sensor with the Makey Makey."
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Scientific American

"We built our first sweatband sensor to get emotional information from autistic children outside the lab. But then one of my undergrad researchers asked if he could borrow a wristband for his little brother who had autism." -MIT's Rosalind Picard
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