In the Media

“'The selection of TESS has just accelerated our chances of finding life on another planet within the next decade,' said planetary scientist Sara Seager"

"...in theory, graphene desalination plants should be simple to build and maintain, and would work in the poorest village. It may not be diamond. But graphene could yet turn out to be the world’s best friend."

"The head of edX, the MIT professor Anant Agarwal, said the resulting open source software will allow a 'planet-scale democratization of education' – a bold claim amid an ed tech boom full of bold claims."

"Let that long-held breath out, folks. The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer has picked up a lot of mysterious antimatter in low Earth orbit – but that doesn’t necessarily mean it’s a sign of dark matter."

"During these contemplative moments, you have to wonder what's going on inside the head of this young scientist who, at age 33, has already helped invent influential technologies in the study of the human brain."

"'This disease [cancer] is much more complex than we have been treating it,' says MIT’s Phillip Sharp. 'And the complexity is stunning.'"

"Cancer geneticist Matthew Meyerson, who is at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, tracks the many ways tumors wreak chaos in orderly cells. He wants to squeeze into his schedule a dedicated time period in Gad Getz's lab at the Broad Institute to hone his computational skills for analyzing data about cancer genomes."

"In a report published this week, a team including researchers from MIT and Harvard revealed that anonymized cellphone location data demonstrate patterns of behavior that could be used to identify a person."

“'I am like the first person in my city to get into MIT ever so I have become sort of pretty famous,' he said. 'I was so motivated by how we were taught [by edX] that I decided that maybe I belong to MIT after all.'”

"When Turkle left the show in L.A., 'the response to him [Aziz Ansari] was that he was on to something really true. . . . I think he’s capturing the kind of paradoxes and difficulties of modern love and modern life.'”

"Sea worms, jellyfish, geckos and spiders may seem unlikely muses to cutting-edge technology. But these creatures are helping stimulate medical innovations — including new adhesives, diagnostic tests and needles — that are slowly migrating from the lab to the clinic."

"On the fifth floor of the MIT Media Lab in Cambridge, Massachusetts, David Mellis has just plugged in the mobile phone I spent all afternoon soldering together. That's right: I just built a cellphone. By hand."

"On the fifth floor of the MIT Media Lab in Cambridge, Massachusetts, David Mellis has just plugged in the mobile phone I spent all afternoon soldering together. That's right: I just built a cellphone. By hand."

"...Machover developed the 'hyperinstrument', which he defines as 'an instrument that knows how it is being played – and can sound like anything'."

"'What attracts a lot of people to cheesemaking,' says Paxson recently in her office, 'is that it’s magical: the transubstantiation of fluid milk to solid food. A lot of people [I interviewed] described cheese’s liveliness and used developmental metaphors like "hitting puberty" and "maturity." They anthropomorphize the cheese.'”