In the Media

"The spectrometer, the long-gestating brainchild of Sam Ting, a Nobel physics laureate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, consists of a giant magnet and detectors that together act as a cosmic sifter, looking for evidence of the elusive 'dark matter' that is thought to pervade the universe."

"The Massachusetts Institute of Technology yesterday named Joichi Ito as the next director of the MIT Media Lab."

"Experts on nuclear power predict that Japan’s Fukushima crisis will lead to a major rethinking of how spent nuclear fuel is handled in the United States but have cast doubt on a proposed solution: reprocessing the fuel to recover plutonium and other materials for reuse."

"The distracted are becoming so distracting that some college professors — at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, no less — think it’s time to unwire the halls of higher education." - Editorial

"The Massachusetts Institute of Technology today released a report called the 'Future of the Nuclear Fuel Cycle,' where a panel argued that the U.S. policy needs to make spent-fuel treatment an integral part of nuclear plant operations, rather than an 'afterthought.'"

"In the drive to achieve solar cells that produce electricity more efficiently, we have a new ally – the M13 virus."

"Organizations world-wide have placed a huge wager on information technology, spending an estimated $594 billion on computer hardware and software in 2010 alone. But what are the keys to making the most of this investment?"

"'If you do an experiment with such a large magnet … you're entering a new domain. You don't know what you'll see,' said Ting, a physics professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who shared a 1976 Nobel Prize for discovering a subatomic particle."

"In a paper presented last month, Hari Balakrishnan of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) suggests how a device's movements could be predicted by sampling data from built-in motion, positioning, and other sensors, bumping throughput by around 50%."

"At the Massachusetts Institute of Technology — home to the father of the World Wide Web and where the Internet is accessible even near the banks of the Charles River — students’ eyes obsessively wander, midconversation, down to laptops and cellphones, checking for missed updates from friends."

"For almost two years, Alex Pentland at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has tracked 60 families living in campus quarters via sensors and software on their smartphones—recording their movements, relationships, moods, health, calling habits and spending."

"[It is] a very complicated time — one that tests the limits of human ingenuity and understanding." - MIT President Susan Hockfield on RadioBoston

"A new class of transparent photovoltaic cells has been developed that can turn an ordinary windowpane into a solar panel without impeding the passage of visible light, scientists said Tuesday."

"Bizarrely, when two of Zwierlein's clouds collide, they bounce off one another like billiard balls."

"Springmann says that from the first time she stepped foot on the Kendall train platform, she was struck by how the sculpture brings people together."