In the Media

"The parking lot is the antithesis of nature’s fields and forests, an ugly reminder of the costs of our automobile-oriented society. But as long as we prefer to get around by car (whether powered by fossil fuel, solar energy or hydrogen), the parking lot is here to stay."

"Deck officers on American aircraft carriers use hand gestures to guide planes around their vessels. These signals are fast, efficient and perfect for a noisy environment. Unfortunately, they work only with people."

"A Nasa spacecraft has found further tantalising evidence for the existence of water ice at Mercury's poles."

"Here are ten women - some historical, some still breaking down barriers - who deserve our thanks."

"Susumu Tonegawa of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology reports a different way to create false sensations."

"South Africa, Angola and Nigeria will nominate Nigeria's Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala to be the next president of the World Bank, a South African official familiar with the discussions said Thursday."

"MIT’s annual Energy Conference, held last Friday and Saturday, featured an impressive array of young engineers, scientists, and renewable energy entrepreneurs. It also included a sizeable number of more established players in the energy field."

"Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have built a camera that can see around corners, by bouncing bursts of laser light off doors or walls."

"In a perfect world, greenhouse gas emissions would be on the decline in the near future, with fossil fuels replaced by clean sources of energy like wind and solar. But current emissions are so daunting that the chances of the planet cleaning up its act in a timely manner are slim."

"There's a small spacecraft called Messenger that's been orbiting the planet Mercury for a year. Today, at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in Houston, astronomers revealed what they've learned about the innermost planet in our solar system, and some of the new knowledge is puzzling."

"In his 2008 memoir, Don’t Sleep, There Are Snakes, the linguist Dan Everett recalled the night members of the Pirahã — the isolated Amazonian hunter-gatherers he first visited as a Christian missionary in the late 1970s — tried to kill him."

"In March 2011 MESSENGER became the first spacecraft to orbit Mercury. NASA's satellite has been taking measurements since then, and has collected nearly 100,000 images of the solar system's smallest planet, and the one closest to the sun."

"Real-world problems are often incompletely understood, vaguely specified, and connected to a variety of other issues in ways that only become apparent when one tries to solve the problem. Or to put it differently, the tools of the classroom are not sufficient to solve complex real-life problems." -John Minahan, Senior Lecturer in Finance, MIT Sloan

"Carol Browner, former White House adviser on climate change, Eugene Kandel, head of the National Economic Council of Israel, Fred Krupp, president of the Environmental Defense Fund, and Ernest Moniz, director of the energy initiative at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, participate in a panel discussion about clean energy." (VIDEO)

"All three sessions raised the significance of reintroducing guilds into organizations."