In the Media

"Many of the bedrock assumptions of American culture — about work, progress, fairness and optimism — are being shaken as successive generations worry about the prospect of declining living standards."

"In what may be a sign of the growth of science and technology in international education, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology wrestled the top spot in the new U.S. News World's Best Universities rankings away from University of Cambridge, which was No. 1 for the past two years."

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"A team at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is also building a sequencer called SETG (Search for Extraterrestrial Genomes), that will search for DNA or RNA from past or present life."

"MIT Media Lab Director, venture capitalist, and Internet luminary Joi Ito shares his plans for making the lab more open."

"If branch campuses are often intellectual islands, with little local spillover, these upstart institutions are being built in the spirit of MIT's motto, Mens et Manus, or Mind and Hand. They are meant to have real-world impact."

"And a study, released this week by Caltech and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, reports that new technologies have helped reduce disqualified ballots, increased the accuracy of mail-in voting and improved voter registration records."

"Do conservatives give more away? According to a new study by two MIT political scientists, not really."

"If Mitt Romney wins election, what will he actually do?" -MIT's Meg Jacobs

"Don’t miss a beat, just bring your workout indoors. These indoor tracks are the best places to exercise in and around Boston."

"Rothberg said Ion Torrent is working with Harvard and MIT to modify the company's personal genome machine for use on Mars as part of a NASA-funded project called SET-G, or 'the search for extraterrestrial genomes.'"

"The last year has brought in a new wave of directors at several Boston-area museums. We talked to six of them about their challenges, surprises, and more."

"Simon Johnson, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Bloomberg View columnist, talks about the outlook for Citigroup Inc. as Michael Corbat replaces Vikram Pandit as chief executive officer."

"This Van Gogh-like swirl is Perpetual Ocean, a data visualisation showing all the surface currents flowing through Earth's oceans."

"MIT research scientist Christopher Carr is part of a group that’s 'building a a miniature RNA/DNA sequencer to search for life beyond Earth,' according to his website."