In the Media

"An unusual new study of college students’ interactions with a robot has shed light on why we intuitively trust some people and distrust others."

"He believes his pioneering technology - known as bionics - has the ability to tap into a under appreciated workforce who, until now, may have been unable to work."

"Humans are peculiar as a species, so what makes them so must be hidden in their genome."

"Computing may be on the cusp of another such wave. This one, many researchers and entrepreneurs say, will be based on smarter machines and software that will automate more tasks and help people make better decisions in business, science and government."

"Among the factors weighing on the recovery are government job cuts, the result of the slowdown in tax collections following the recession, said Paul Osterman, a professor of management at Massachusetts Institute of Technology."

"The idea of using bacteria-fighting viruses as a weapon against hard-to-treat infections is making a surprising comeback, but with a twist on how it has been attempted for nearly a century."

"Harvard and MIT's online university, edX, has taken a significant step forward - in a deal with Pearson to provide a global network of invigilated exam centres for online students."

"EdX, the online school founded by Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, will offer proctored final exams to allow students to use their results for credentials and job applications."

"A five-year project called ENCODE, for 'Encyclopedia of DNA Elements,' found that about 80 percent of the human genome is biologically active, influencing how nearby genes are expressed and in which types of cells."

"The Twitterati likely already know that last week, I joined MIT science writing professor (and fellow author/physics aficionado) Tom Levenson in the virtual world, Second Life, for the Virtually Speaking Science (VSS) podcast, hosted by BlogTalk Radio."

"We’re trying to put web use for everybody on the international agenda, and for each country that’s wondering what it should do next, help them answer the question." -MIT's Tim Berners-Lee

"Junot Díaz has built a big audience with two books: Drown, a collection of short stories, and his debut novel, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, which won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for fiction."

"For his latest project, 'The Last Pictures,' the experimental artist plans to present his work in space, hanging in the midst of cosmic artifacts rather than earthly masterpieces."

"A pair of robotic spacecraft in orbit around the moon began collecting data on lunar gravity again last week, as part of the probes' extended mission."

"First they sequenced it. Now they have surveyed its hinterlands. But no one knows how much more information the human genome holds, or when to stop looking for it."