In the Media

"Several projects coordinated by MIT's Senseable City lab have revealed the powerful urban insights that can occur when people are linked via networks of sensors."

"If the theory holds up, it would mean that oxygen was present on Earth 300 million years before seeping in the atmosphere, creating ripe conditions for the development of life-nurturing marine environments."

"In a new paper, " Why Philosophers Should Care About Computational Complexity," Scott Aaronson, a computer scientist at MIT, explains why computational complexity theorists believe that some problems are practically uncomputable. He lays out some of the implications this might have for some of the biggest questions in philosophy, physics, biology, and economics."

"The result is a race to solve one of their biggest equipment challenges: developing a helmet that not only protects brains from the traditional enemies of bullets and shrapnel but also from blunt blows and invisible, devastating blast waves from explosions."

"Such high-res, high-speed data gathering has never been achieved before, and if successful the new laser system could have implications for everything from basic chemistry to complex pharmaceutical research and chemical engineering."

"It obviously would be really useful if scientists could come up with a potent antiviral therapy that could be used against a broad array of viruses. Researchers at MIT's Lincoln Laboratory think they're on the way to doing just that."

"Gradual exits from long careers are becoming increasingly attractive to older workers and employers as both try to navigate an uncertain economy, changing workforce, and evolving views of retirement."

"A Spanish entrepreneur wants to give you a glimpse of the black expanse of space and the curvature of the earth from a most unusual vantage point — a balloon."

"Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have developed a method of storing energy generated by off-shore wind turbines that could solve this problem. Dubbed the Ocean Renewable Energy System (ORES), the system is based on an underwater pumped hydraulic system."

"Diamond’s particular areas of expertise -- labor markets and pension programs, notably -- are unusually salient right now. I reached him at his home in New Hampshire to get his take on the continuing economic crisis."

"Researchers from MIT have created a handheld device called GelSight that provides ultra-high resolution 3D scans of microscopic surface structure."

"A powerful imaging device, known as GelSight, uses a slab of rubber coated with metal to trace a terrain of printed words in micrometre-scale resolution."

"The resulting high-quality, 3-D models can be manipulated on a computer screen to a variety of ends ranging from quality control to criminal forensics to dermatology."

"Harvard and MIT researchers have worked together to develop a special gel that is injected into scarred and damaged vocal cords to restore their function by allowing the cords to vibrate again."

"Gruber decided to remain in academia, but Washington's potential ability to implement the changes he was proposing in research paper after research paper continued to interest him."