In the Media

"The trunk can grab things and hold twice its weight. Because the parts are so cheap, the robot is more disposable than most, which could be good for search and rescue."

"The big rockets of our day get all of the fanfare during a launch, but often they're accompanied by tiny stowaways known as CubeSats, which hitch a ride and drop into orbit."

"As enrollment has rapidly increased in free online classes, also known as Massive Open Online Courses, or MOOC’s, students are increasingly forming groups, both online and in the real world, to study and socialize."

"American institutions are once again dominating one of the most closely watched international university rankings, the academic ranking of the world’s top 500 universities, published on Tuesday by Shanghai Jiao Tong University, in China."

"While most industry officials don't envision a fully self-driving, or autonomous, vehicle before 2025, features such as adaptive cruise control or traffic jam assist that automatically slow or apply the brakes for a car in certain situations are already being introduced."

"Water levels are low in reservoirs all over the parched West, but in many areas, the amount of water being used is no greater than the amount that evaporates, according to Moshe Alamaro, a scientist and inventor affiliated with M.I.T."

"Bloomberg Businessweek visits Steven Levine, a graduate student at M.I.T.'s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab, to peek at the future of manufacturing robotics."

"Scientists have found a cosmic supermom. It's a galaxy that gives births to more stars in a day than ours does in a year."

"Enter SPT-CLJ2344-4243, also known as the Phoenix cluster, situated 5.7 billion light years from Earth. Its central galaxy has finally been found to meet productivity standards, churning out an estimated 740 stars the size of the sun per year."

"The Olympics may be over, but in outer space, records are still being broken."

"Graphene -- the super-strong, self-healing, atom-thick material -- has a secret weapon. MIT researchers found that graphene changes its fundamental properties depending on the material beneath it."

"North America's massive resources are going to shift market power away from OPEC and Russia and to consuming nations." -MIT's John Deutch

"Researchers at MIT, Harvard, and Seoul National University have created a robotic worm."

"An MIT team has built a camera-free plane that can autonomously navigate its way through tight indoor spaces using only onboard sensors."

"The goal of the DARPA Phoenix program is to develop technologies to cooperatively harvest and re-use valuable components from retired, nonworking satellites in geostationary orbit and to demonstrate the ability to create new spacecraft systems at greatly reduced cost."