In the Media

"Hoping to speed up drug development and also make it safer and more cost-effective, researchers are at work creating what's been dubbed a 'human body on a chip.'"

"Though the Uni is becoming well-traveled, anyone who had a hand in building it will point out that it was born in Boston."

"An Apple Inc expert witness testified on Friday that consumers would be willing to pay $100 for three patented smartphone features that are at issue in its high stakes trial against Samsung Electronics Co Ltd."

"The Romney and Obama campaigns are spending zillions on ads — most of which could kindly be called 'negative.' If you want to sort out the charges and countercharges there are two new apps from two Cambridge, MA., developers to help."

"Robots are cool to begin with, but today researchers at MIT, Harvard and Seoul National University unveiled one that will impress some and scare others."

"MIT's Robust Robotics program is showing off its nifty new robotic plane that navigates itself."

"Audiences who have paid to see Circus Smirkus will Ooh and Ahh at dozens of aspiring aerialists, clowns and jugglers. But behind the scenes a small posse of MIT engineers will be making sure everything works."

"Engineers have created a robot that mimics a worm's movements - crawling along surfaces by contracting segments of its body."

"When Alan Guth received an e-mail from a colleague asking if he could discuss a new annual prize in physics, he recalls, 'I thought I was being asked to be on an organizing committee.'"

"Mechanical instability is usually a problem that engineers try to avoid. But now some are using it to fold, stretch and crumple materials in remarkable ways."

"When it comes to woodworking, a board cut a few millimetres too long or too short can make the difference between a work of art and a pile of firewood. For a lot of us, this small margin of error can turn the making of even the simplest picture frame or birdhouse seem akin to painting the Mona Lisa."

"Increased temperatures from climate warming will hurt poor countries and limit their long-term growth, a U.S. researcher says."

"The web has changed a lot since Tim Berners-Lee posted, on this day, the first webpages summarizing his World Wide Web project, a method of storing knowledge using hypertext documents."

"A new research paper that examines data from 68 branches of a large U.S. bank shows that women managers do not remedy problems of gender inequality in the workplace."

"Oscar Pistorius, the South African amputee who is running in the 2012 Olympics on prosthetic legs, might be surprised to learn he is part of a history that traces back 3,500 years."