In the Media

"When it comes to woodworking, a board cut a few millimetres too long or too short can make the difference between a work of art and a pile of firewood. For a lot of us, this small margin of error can turn the making of even the simplest picture frame or birdhouse seem akin to painting the Mona Lisa."

"Increased temperatures from climate warming will hurt poor countries and limit their long-term growth, a U.S. researcher says."

"The web has changed a lot since Tim Berners-Lee posted, on this day, the first webpages summarizing his World Wide Web project, a method of storing knowledge using hypertext documents."

"A new research paper that examines data from 68 branches of a large U.S. bank shows that women managers do not remedy problems of gender inequality in the workplace."

"Oscar Pistorius, the South African amputee who is running in the 2012 Olympics on prosthetic legs, might be surprised to learn he is part of a history that traces back 3,500 years."

"There’s hope yet for the fat-fingered set who want to try their hands at precision craftsmanship thanks to a new tool that combines manual and automatic positioning to cut things according to a digital plan."

"More than 120 universities have expressed interest in joining the consortium, said edX President Anant Agarwal, who heads MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory."

"Researchers at MIT’s Media Lab develop ‘glasses-free’ technology."

"'Touchdown confirmed,' Chen announced shortly after 10:30 p.m. West Coast time, as those gathered in a Pasadena, Calif., control room burst into celebration. Curiosity, the space program’s $2.6 billion rover, had landed on Mars."

"Nearly one in two Americans -- 46 percent -- die 'with virtually no financial assets,' or less than $10,000, according to a recent study by economics professors at MIT, Dartmouth and Harvard."

"As reported last fall, Dr. Conrad had bet her colleague Frank Wilczek, a physics Nobelist in 2004, 10 chocolate Nobel coins that the Standard Model Higgs boson did not exist. On July 4 she realized she was going to have to pay."

"China is the center of an East Asian production and supply network. That, as much as cheap labor, gives it a daunting advantage." -MIT's Yasheng Huang

"A new study finds that more than 46 percent of Americans die with less than $10,000 in financial assets, with many spending the end of their life strongly dependent on the government."

"A pair of MIT mechanical engineering students has developed the first truly portable 3D printer, which fits neatly into a metal briefcase."

"Eric von Hippel of MIT, as I’ve discussed, has highlighted the importance of 'field discovery' – practitioners working on problems they encounter — in driving medical innovation."