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Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology said that prices of commercial property sold by major institutional investors nationwide fell slightly in the first quarter compared with the last quarter of 2009. - Story on commercial property values and the MIT Center for Real Estate index

"Over and over, kids raised the same three examples of feeling hurt and not wanting to show it when their mom or dad would be on their devices instead of paying attention to them." - Sherry Turkle, a professor in the Program in Science, Technology, and Society, on parents' technological distractions

"We are quite a ways away from a detailed understanding of all the myriad things that caused the crisis." - Andrew Lo, Harris & Harris Group Professor in the MIT Sloan School of Management, on the understanding the financial crisis.

VIDEO: MIT researchers working on easier allergy test

"We don't have alternatives ready to be deployed tomorrow." - Chemical engineering professor Greg Stephanopoulos on the present and future of off-shore drilling

An MIT team aims to bring aviation into the 21st century with two bold new designs for commercial airliners that could trim fuel use by up to 70 percent while increasing passenger capacity.

Mixing whimsy and wonkishness, MIT’s Toy Lab has again produced a series of lively student inventions aimed at amazing kids. - Story on the Toy Lab's recent PLAYsentations

A four-member team from Stanford University that created a film coating for electronic screens won a $200,000 grant and first prize yesterday in MIT’s third Clean Energy Entrepreneurship competition.

"You can try to treat each of the effects of weightlessness system by system, with certain pills for bone loss and certain exercise regimens for the muscles. Or you can treat the root cause of weightlessness by restoring gravity." - Laurence Young, the Apollo Program Professor of Astronautics and professor of health sciences and technology.

"The interesting thing about a GPU is that they are made to produce a visual world. What we want to do is reverse that process." - Nicolas Pinto, a graduate student in the Department of Brain And Cognitive Sciences.

"Without question, we would rather have done it all in the U.S. I'm an American citizen. We're an American company. It's an American-born technology." - MIT's Yet-Ming Chiang on manufacturing a battery technology he developed.

Researchers say they are a step closer to understanding why some people have natural protection against HIV. - Story on work by MIT's Arup Chakraborty

LaHood, who was at MIT to promote innovation in transportation technology, encouraged the public to become more energized about the issue in the 26 states that have not passed a texting ban and the 44 without hands-free cellphone requirements. - Story on U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood's visit to MIT

"It's fine to help the developing world, but first you have to know what it needs. Amy Smith does." - Amy Smith, D-Lab founder, named to Time Magazine's 100 most influential people list

"If you're in a growing market and your costs are below the cost of development, it's a guaranteed investment." - William Wheaton, director of MIT's Center for Real Estate, on what to look for in buying a home.