In the Media

"Two teams of scientists at the Large Hadron Collider near Geneva say they detected 'tantalizing hints' of the elusive Higgs boson, or 'God particle,' but no definitive proof."

"That’s fast enough to watch photons travel the length of a one-liter bottle."

"Efforts to remove CO2 directly from the air are likely to prove too expensive to be practical."

"Our feeble little minds can’t process the time that light takes to fill a room, but now we can see it happen in slow-motion with help from the MIT Media Lab and its trillion frames per second camera."

"Physicists are closing in on an elusive subatomic particle that, if found, would confirm a long-held understanding about why matter has mass and how the universe's fundamental building blocks behave."

"Spurred by interest in the role proteins involved in longevity might play in protecting against neurodegenerative disease, MIT researchers began routine tests of learning and memory in mice whose brains lacked the proteins, called sirtuins."

"More than 70 years ago, the M.I.T. electrical engineer Harold (Doc) Edgerton began using strobe lights to create remarkable photographs: a bullet stopped in flight as it pierced an apple, the coronet created by the splash of a drop of milk."

"When other institutions tested the goodwill of their customers, technology-based alternatives emerged to provide a better option."

"YouTube, the world's largest video sharing service, has launched a new school-friendly version of its site."

"InVivo Therapeutics Holdings Corp. today congratulated company cofounder Robert S. Langer for his selection as the recipient of the 2011 the Economist annual innovation award in bioscience."

"A paper by a prominent team of economists says the tax rate for top U.S. earners could be hiked to 83 percent without hurting anyone but the 'mega rich.'”

"Anita Desai's new collection of stories, The Artist of Disappearance, reads a bit like three symphonic movements in a minor key."

"Additive manufacturing, then, is changing not only how things are made, but what is made."

"Worried that you won’t know what to do with yourself in retirement?"

"The aging U.S. population is a potential gold mine for entrepreneurs who can build technologies to help this huge demographic remain active and stay in their homes as long as possible."