In the Media

"New technology will no doubt ease the burdens of tomorrow's seniors...But technology alone is not enough, writes Joseph Coughlin, director of the AgeLab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology."

"Do you think cutting-edge scientists should earn as much as star athletes, celebrity artists or Wall Street bankers?"

"Among the myriad chest-tightening, tear-jerking stories being told of athletes overcoming hardship at the 2012 Olympics, it's hard to compete with the one about a sprinter standing proudly atop carbon-fiber legs."

"We and others are discovering the specific functions of specific groups of neurons with more precision than is possible in any other way." -Ed Boyden

“The country has had a hard time accepting the science of climate change, and I think that makes it challenging to talk about politically.” -Michael Greenstone

"Created by Russ Tedrake from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and colleagues, the computer-controlled plane can perform hair-raising rolls while flying at high speed to dart between obstacles."

"A Russian physics student turned social media billionaire just made theoretical physics the most lucrative thing in science, heaping $3 million apiece on nine researchers."

"We now have a study suggesting, optimistically, that proper incentives can concentrate new technologies on the patients who might most benefit."

"The idea of using aquatic robots to search for the mines instead is alluring, but it is difficult to teach machines how to navigate around hulls without crashing into them or getting lost."

"Several of the winners said they hoped that the new prize, with its large cash award, would help raise recognition of physics and draw more students into the field."

"As environmentalists and industry groups bicker over the costs and benefits of pollution rules, a new study finds that we may actually be underestimating the value of clean air in at least one respect: Cutting pollution can allow people to spend less on prescription drugs."

"MIT Finance Professor Andrew Lo discusses the volatility of volatility."

"MIT political scientist Adam Berinsky, who is now conducting research on misperceptions, commissioned a YouGov poll earlier this month tracking support for the false claim that President Obama was not born in the United States."

"A multi-university research team of astronomers have examined data from NASA’s Kepler space telescope, and discovered a solar system where the planets orbit the sun in ways that are very similar that planets in our own solar system do."

"When astronomers began discovering exoplanets — worlds orbiting other stars — they expected those solar systems to follow the local model. But that's not how things turned out."