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New Scientist

"Manipulating blurry digital images in TV programmes like CSI often produces unfeasibly clear pictures of a suspect's face, but it turns out that it is possible to extract important forensic details from shadowy images after all."
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AP at Huffington Post

"Now scientists have mapped just which critters normally live in or on us and where, calculating that healthy people can share their bodies with more than 10,000 species of microbes."
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Scientific American

"Meet (MIT sophomore) Sabrina Pasterski, 19, one of the up-and-coming physicists attending this year's Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting."
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The Huffington Post

"Why does over 20 percent of the population still think that vaccines cause autism? And what happens when parents act on their fears, refusing to inoculate their own children against dangerous diseases like measles, mumps, and rubella?"
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MSNBC

"Researchers have programmed a robot to learn how a mechanic likes to work, then to help the mechanic without breaking his or her rhythm. The researchers hope to see robot assistants working side by side with people someday, helping with small tasks."
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Forbes

"With a particular focus on creating jobs and promoting innovation, the initiative will be able to address some of the many questions posed by Big Data: How can we work smarter? How can we improve our processes? What are we leaving on the table?"
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The Boston Globe

"Building each individual prosthetic remains an art, with amputees dependent on the craftsmanship and experience of individual designers, said David Moinina Sengeh, a PhD student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology."
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The Boston Globe

"'I was told that there is a great fish expert, Mr. London,' said Jevtov, standing in an MIT basement room stacked six rows high with 1,000 tanks holding 30,000 silvery zebra fish."
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Los Angeles Times

"Social media for tweens? No. It's better to keep things face to face."
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The Wall Street Journal

"With the euro-zone crisis intensifying, debt markets are closed to plenty of European banks. Across the Atlantic, it is a different story: While U.S. banks have no problem selling long-term debt, they often aren't keen to do so."
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The Huffington Post

"Iran's fitful approach to resolving the nuclear controversy has thrown up many obstacles, but now it appears ready to find an agreement."
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Wired

"Diver, entrepreneur, investor, author, occasional DJ, and head of MIT’s Media Lab, Joi Ito is a man in constant motion around the world, spreading his ideas about the internet and technology — and absorbing just as much in the process."
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Reuters

"'The glass half full side of this disaster at McLean is that it will act as a wake-up call to other brain banks to recheck their security systems,' said Suzanne Corkin, a professor of behavioral neuroscience at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who specializes in investigating the history and pathophysiology of degenerative disorders."
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The Guardian

"In his first book, Connectome: How the Brain's Wiring Makes Us Who We Are, he (MIT's Sebastian Seung) argues that our individuality lies in our connectome, the complex map of our neurons."
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The Wall Street Journal

"A few weeks ago I attended the MIT Sloan CIO Symposium. The theme of this year’s Symposium was Piloting the Untethered Enterprise: 'In today’s world of mobile, big data and the cloud, how does a CIO successfully pilot his organization towards its goals?'"
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