In the Media

"Berenice Abbott's science photographs invite us to contemplate the wonder of creation."

"Some smartphone apps collect and transmit sensitive information stored on a phone, including location, contacts, and Web browsing histories, even when the apps are not being used by the phone’s owner, according to two researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology."

"They bill their new book, Visual Strategies, as a guide to graphics for scientists and engineers, but it will be useful for anyone who wants to make clear presentations of data of any kind."

"We knew before that most cancers were due to mutations in the genes in cancer cells. Now [that we can sequence a tumor’s genes], we’re able to identify the full spectrum of mutations that have occurred in a given cancer." -MIT's Phillip A. Sharp

"In an effort to attract more high school students to science, two teams at MIT took inspiration for projects from reality TV and from online games."

"Scientists at Massachusetts Institute of Technology have made the first films of semiconductor nanocrystals that conduct electricity and are free of cracks."

"A marine robot uses sonar to scan for tiny limpet mines attached to a ship’s hull. But military dolphins and sea lions are not out of a job just yet."

"A decade ago (MIT's Dick) Yue pushed academia to take its most valuable asset—teaching—and give it away."

"A new type of solar panel can turn infra-red light, not just the visible sort, into electricity."

"A new high-coverage DNA sequencing method reconstructs the full genome of Denisovans — relatives to both Neandertals and humans — from genetic fragments in a single finger bone."

"A team of bioengineers has genetically engineered skeletal muscle tissue to produce a protein that reacts to light, and plans to use it to build a robot with realistic manoeuvrability."

"Bioengineers at MIT have genetically modified muscle cells to respond to light, which could be used to make easily controllable robot muscles that look and act like the animals on which they're based."

"As a child, (Junot Diaz) the author of the new story collection 'This Is How You Lose Her' loved the unabashedly smart Encyclopedia Brown. 'Smart was not cool where I grew up.'"

"To what extent can social networking make it easier to find people and solve real-world problems?"

"Is post-traumatic stress disorder underdiagnosed or overdiagnosed?"