In the Media

"No, it's not a terrorist scheme or the plotline of some second-rate summer blockbuster. But tiny robots may soon arrive at a nuclear plant near you, and these bots might just save us from a horrible disaster."

"Would we curb our wasteful activities if only we knew the error of our ways? Technophiles from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology think so..."

"Solar panels come in many forms: Crystalline silicon, thin film, even sprays and transparent plastic. Time to add paper to the list."

"Now 3D-printing software called Minecraft.Print() is letting the game's fans bring their creations into the real world - albeit on a much smaller scale."

"Young children play like scientists work, according to a new research project at MIT and Stanford University."

"Engineers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology have created ultrathin paper cells that gather enough juice to power an LCD clock and can be glued to a briefcase, stapled to a hat or folded into a pocket."

"When you give money to a person in need, it's natural to wonder how much good that money can do when it's up against the larger forces that created the need in the first place."

"'Words to Eat By' abounds with such delicious historical detail. Ms. Lipkowitz, who teaches literature at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is an appealing mixture of scholar and foodie, and she has written a toothsome study of the relationship between English-speakers' culinary and linguistic heritage."

"At start-up companies and in research laboratories, scientists are devising materials and technologies that could help remove or store carbon dioxide."

"Imagine how many well-prepared minds you would have to try to solve the country’s problems.” -MIT's Michael DeGraff

"The researchers brought the toy to the Museum of Science in Boston and asked 85 preschoolers to play with it under one of four different experimental conditions."

"Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are working to improve remote imaging of the piping at pressurized water reactors with the development of tiny, spherical robots that could work their way through them and send video images back to watchers in a control room."

"Fancy a job swimming through the radioactive pipes beneath a nuclear reactor? Probably not if you're a human, but that's just what this spherical robot is designed to do."

"You know those nature shows where they put a little tracking device on an animal and then release it into the wild? Some guys at MIT have done that with electronics."

"Researchers have shown that a computer can master the video game Civilization II—in part by reading the manual."