"Experimenting with new ways to convey climate findings, and new ways to foster constructive public discourse on issues with this level of complexity and scope, is important."
"When people think and write about what leads to economic success, they too often focus only on the most visible, highly paid players." -MIT's Paul Osterman
"The field of urban design has long been more of a craft than a science, but researchers are developing new ways to use large datasets and quantitative tools, including some that analyze social networks, to better understand cities."
"The initial participants are usually good dancers, but those who join in tend to be more awkward, occasionally leaning the wrong way, or flailing their hands a bit behind the beat."
"There are many ways the microenvironment could drive cancer, says researcher Robert Weinberg, of the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, and a biology professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology."
"In July, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology-Princeton team won an award from the Association for Computing Machinery for a system of dashboard-mounted smartphones that allows users to collect information about traffic signals and slow down accordingly."
"The thumb-size black strip looks like a thin magnet. But in reality, it is an artificial leaf, made of silicon and capable of using sunlight to split water into hydrogen and oxygen that can be fed into fuel cells to make power."
"Within your major you'll be well known to your professors and TAs in and out of the classroom. It's a great education and definitely prepares you for either a job or continuing higher education." -MIT sophomore Lisa
"The new music museum of the 21st century is high-tech, cutting-edge, interactive. It’s a place where music is made, not simply heard. It’s filled with different ways to make sounds. And chances are that Tod Machover had a hand in designing it."
“'Seraph' features both human dancers and elegant, LED-bedecked quadrotors—four-bladed robotic helicopters. The bots are controlled offstage by expert quadrotors captains."
"A team of researchers have used datamining and machine learning techniques to find subtle changes in electrical activity in the heart that can be used to predict potentially fatal heart attacks."
"The assignment in a architecture studio at MIT two years ago was to design a house that could be built for $1,000. The twin inspirations were the charity One Laptop Per Child and the devastating 2008 earthquake in China. Last month, MIT announced that one of the students’ designs has been erected, in Mianyang, in Sicuan Province."