In the Media

"Earth orbits in a shooting gallery of asteroids and space rocks, but an impact looks unlikely for the foreseeable future."

"Power-conducting films that could be stuck to any surface under the sun are coming. Will that get us the solar power we need?"

"Named after the first known black MIT graduate, the 28-year-old Robert R. Taylor Network pairs professionals in architecture, science, technology, engineering, and math with students from urban communities who are underrepresented in those fields, said Darian C. Hendricks, the network’s chairman and chief executive."

"Things were different in Boston on Sunday. A massive snowfall will do that to a city."

"Students from Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology had a snowball fight in Cambridge, Mass."

"Today we look at e-business, or Internet commerce, an academic specialty that borrows heavily from a number of academic disciplines from entrepreneurship and marketing to data mining and analysis."

"A team of roboticists has shown that by getting robots and humans to carry out simple tasks together, then swap roles, synchronicity increases significantly because the machines gain a better understanding of what's required of them."

"New tech from MIT aims to clean the water used in fracking so much that you'd happily drink it, even though it was once filled with chemicals."

"For Valentine's Day, maybe you'll post a photo of your loved one on Facebook, tweet out a love poem or text-message your secret crush. But as we make those virtual connections, are we missing something?"

"The stronger argument for a major government response to climate change is the more obvious argument: climate change."

"Andrei Kirilenko, former chief economist of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), wants to prevent another financial crisis with a simple solution: education."

"Discussions of gun control have centered on whether policymakers should adopt an "assault weapon" ban -- something that seven states currently have, or have had, in the past." -MIT's Chris Knittel

"The anticipated marriage of American Airlines parent AMR Corp. and US Airways Group Inc. would represent a departure from other airline mergers in recent decades, aimed more at creating a huge route network that leapfrogs the competition, rather than at culling money-losing and overlapping flights."

"During 2012, according to my research, the major news media documented and discussed the calamity for ordinary Syrians and rebels alike at a rate that was at least four times more frequent compared with coverage of civilian casualties in the Iraq war in 2006, the most violent year." -MIT's John Tirman

"They are studying entrepreneurship at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and taking lessons from Kendall Square to better understand how to turn the roundabout — and the former Olympic Park located nearby — into a global magnet for technology ventures."