In the Media

"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."

"On average there are 12 mid-air collisions between small aircraft in America every year, causing 19 deaths—and a lot more near misses."

"Is it better to pursue a single bottom line, or do shareholders benefit more when a company supports the 'triple bottom line' that includes people, the planet, and profits?" -Caroline Flammer

"Draper Lab group has partnered on a spacesuit project with scientists at NASA's Johnson Space Center and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. They plan to first create a prototype for a spacesuit arm by 2012."