WGBH reports on the health care hackfest held at MIT last weekend. The event brought together hundreds of participants from around the world to develop solutions to some of health care’s most pressing problems.
“Cosmic inflation, meanwhile, was proposed by MIT’s Alan Guth (who attended the CfA press conference) in 1979 and explains why the universe appears to be bigger than its age suggests,” writes Paul Rodgers in Forbes of the announcement this week that scientists had discovered evidence that confirmed Guth’s seminal work.
MIT Professor Alan Guth talks to BBC News about the new scientific evidence that appears to support a Big Bang Theory for the origin of the universe. Guth was one of the first physicists to propose the theory of cosmic inflation.
Los Angeles Times reporter Amina Khan explores the new findings that appear to confirm MIT Professor Alan Guth’s theory of cosmic inflation. “Guth's inflation theory became a cornerstone of our understanding of the early universe — but scientists had thought it would be difficult, if not impossible, to prove,” writes Khan.
“A team of biologists and engineers want to turn plants into chemical warfare detectors that can sniff out sarin gas or explosives. For now, though, they've succeeded in turning the flowering Arabidopsis thaliana into a pollutant detector using carbon nanotubes,” writes Wired reporter Liat Clark of the new bionic plants developed at MIT.
New York Times reporter Dennis Overbye profiles Professor Alan Guth, one of the first physicists to set forth the theory of cosmic inflation. This week astronomers presented evidence that could confirm Guth’s work.
The Washington Post features the new soft robotic fish developed by MIT researchers. The fish echoes the movements of a real fish and is safe for humans to work with as it is made of soft materials, writes reporter Fred Barbash.
“Researchers at MIT are giving plants super powers by placing tiny carbon nanotubes deep within their cells,” writes Deborah Netburn in a Los Angeles Times piece on bionic plants developed by MIT researchers.
Alan Neuhasuser reporting for U.S. News & World Report examines how MIT researchers have embedded carbon nanotubes in plants, helping them collect more sunlight. The bionic plants could be used to detect explosives, chemical weapons and more, Neuhasuser reports.
CNN reports on a new invention designed by researchers from MIT and Harvard that allows people to send specific scents to another person’s cell phone via text messaging.
Boston Magazine’s Steve Annear reports on the “‘Sesame Ring,’ a piece of wearable technology that has a CharlieCard’s RFID chip embedded inside.” The ring was designed by a team of MIT undergraduate students and the Singapore University of Technology and Design.
Nature reporter Ron Cowen explores Professor Alan Guth’s theory of cosmic inflation, which scientists may have confirmed by searching for gravitational waves from the seconds after the Universe’s formation. “Guth’s idea was that the cosmos expanded at an exponential rate for a few tens of trillionths of trillionths of trillionths of seconds after the Big Bang, ballooning from subatomic to football size.”
New Scientist’s Catherine Brahic reports on new bionic plants developed at MIT. The plants, which have an increased ability to photosynthesise thanks to nanomaterials embedded in their cells, could be used to create self-powering and self-repairing materials, new types of fuel cells and more, Brahic reports.
Writing for Scientific American, David Biello reports on a team of MIT researchers who are giving plants and the photosynthesis process an extra boost thanks to carbon nanotubes the team embedded deep within the plant’s leaves.
“Chocolate sustainability is not the career path of your typical MBA graduate, but I use what I learned at business school every day,” writes Shayna Harris, the cocoa sustainability manager for Mars Global Chocolate of her experience as an MBA student at Sloan.