In the Media

"More than 100 spacecraft have been to the moon, including six with U.S. astronauts, but one key piece of information about Earth's natural satellite is still missing -- what's inside."

"Modern technology is dotted throughout the gallery - from the space suit designed by MIT aeronautical engineer Dava Newman to a pair of hexapod robots."

“You don’t take your shoes off anywhere but in the U.S. — not in Israel, in Amsterdam, in London,” said Yossi Sheffi, an Israeli-born expert on risk analysis at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. “We all know why we do it here, but this seems to be a make-everybody-feel-good thing rather than a necessity.”

"Business groups and organized labor have at least one thing in common right now: a frustration that our politics are producing more hot rhetoric than good jobs, even as crucial national needs go unaddressed." -MIT's Thomas A. Kochan

“'Traffic signals are one of the least-efficient parts of the transportation system, so we decided to see if we could leverage smartphones to improve the flow of vehicles through them,' said Emmanouil Koukoumidis, a 28-year-old Massachusetts Institute of Technology visiting researcher who led the project."

"On Thursday, President Obama will deliver a major speech on America’s employment crisis. But too often, what is lost in the call for job creation is a clear idea of what jobs we want to create." -MIT's Paul Osterman

"Four decades after landing men on the moon, NASA is returning to Earth's orbiting companion, this time with a set of robotic twins that will measure lunar gravity while chasing one another in circles."

"It is an idea any overworked teacher would welcome - computers that automatically mark piles of exams and homework."

"In other words, at the lab bench, just about any virus will get the death sentence from Draco—from the petty rhinovirus that causes the common cold to the homicidal dengue fever."

"A new DNA-based logic circuit can sense the signs of cancer, compute that a cell is cancerous, and then cause it to self-destruct, researchers say."

"Publication of the genome of the North American green anole lizard has filled a yawning genome-sequence gap in the animal lineage."

"Mandarin speakers can gain an advantage in doing business in China, (MIT's Leigh) Hafrey said."

"Imagine you’ve got a chemistry test coming up on Monday. On Sunday, you lounge around the house, electrodes attached to your head. At some point a text appears on your phone: 'Your brain is primed for learning.'”

"Today, our most important task is to restart this virtuous cycle of invention and manufacturing." -Susan Hockfield

"Rather than seen as trash, plastic bottles are now being viewed as a cheap and sustainable way to light homes."