In the Media

"The widely held and devoutly believed idea that a big play can change the momentum of a game is, in a word, bunk. So say a trio of MIT stats geeks with a decade of data to back them up."

"From MIT Startup Bootcamp to Grace Hopper Celebration, from PITCH Conference to Girl Geek Dinners, there’s no shortage of things to do for a woman interested in tech and entrepreneurship."

"Bacteria reproduce themselves rapidly — but could we make them faster still?"

"What if you constantly change the ingredients in your raw batter, but the baked cake is always lemon? It sounds like something from a surrealist film, but equivalent scenarios seem to play out all the time in the mathematics of the quantum world."

"Ever wished you'd never met your boss and your colleagues were holograms?"

"It sounds like a late-night freshman dorm debate after a marathon viewing of the “Matrix” trilogy: What if we’re all just bits and bytes in someone else’s computer simulation?"

"Uranium’s recovery from the Fukushima nuclear accident may take one or two years longer than analysts estimated as stockpiles in Japan and Germany keep prices low and cause mining companies to defer new development."

"Fast forward 135 years and this tale of woe, by U.S. historian Scott Reynolds Nelson, bears an uncanny resemblance to today's chronic banking and debt problems, according to Stephen Ross, a professor of financial economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Sloan School of Management."

"Our conversation, though limited to half-an-hour, spanned many topics but mostly centered around the role robotics can play in bringing back manufacturing to America."

"According to author Paul O’Gorman, an atmospheric scientist at MIT, heavy downpours in the tropics are likely to increase by ten percent for every 1°C (1.8°F) increase in global average surface temperature."

"But can robots believably display character traits? It turns out they can--and they can tell us a little something about the way humans act, too."

"The Hartford Financial Service Group and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology AgeLab published a study this week that identified 10 safety-related automotive technologies that its panel judged as the most beneficial for mature drivers."

"There’s a ring of man-made satellites orbiting the earth that will outlast human civilization. To send a message to the future, artist Trevor Paglen decided to micro-etch 100 images on an ultra-archival disc created by Massachusetts Institute of Technology engineers and blast them up there."

"Scientists have harnessed an imaging technique to create a 3-D visualization of electrons moving at nearly light speed on and in a futuristic material that could replace silicon in electronic devices of tomorrow."

"Moderators Alex Witt and Chelsea Clinton sit down at the MIT Media Lab with 3rd Grade Teacher Susie Brooks, New Classrooms Co-founder Joel Rose, and MIT Professor Mitch Resnick, and an audience of K-12 educators to talk about how technology will transform learning and classrooms."