In the Media

"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."

"For his new video, 'The Stars as Viewed from the International Space Station,' MIT student and photographer Alex Rivest took NASA's raw footage of the earth and sky and turned it into a cosmic tableau that's more Millennium Falcon than ISS."

"An aeronautical engineer claims to have solved some of the issues that grounded Concorde, with a supersonic biplane design."

"What makes us who we are? Where is our personal history recorded, or our hopes? What explains autism or schiziphrenia or remarkable genius? Sebastian Seung argues that it’s all in the connections our neurons make."

"The ability to see objects hidden behind walls could be invaluable in dangerous or inaccessible locations, such as inside machinery with moving parts, or in highly contaminated areas. Now scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge have found a way to do just that."

"Ancient humans have changed the landscape around their settlements in such ways that even today archaeologists can distinguish between 'lived in' spots and those never occupied by humans. Now, two scientists have figured out a more efficient way of locating these sites, via their footprints, from space."

"Bringing the science knowhow and business acumen together was critical for the development of the technology, says Mr Lucchino. 'Everyone tries to work out which is more important. I think they are both equally important,' he says."

"At a time when California’s Silicon Valley dominates the digital innovation discussion, to have three grand prizes in the prominent national competition snared by local start-ups, all with roots at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, shows that Greater Boston is a significant hotbed of new technologies, said industry advocates."