In the Media

"That find and the current one 'are two big checkmarks' for the Kepler mission, says team member Sara Seager of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge."

"MIT is announcing that for the first time it will offer credentials — under the name 'MITx' — to students who complete the online version of certain courses, starting with a pilot program this spring."

"For the last year, Barba has been reviewing applications on Apple Inc.’s iPad tablet device. She has been testing a new app, or computer program, being launched today."

"MIT next spring will launch a pilot of MITx online-only courses geared to reach prospective learners everywhere. And, the university said it will open source the underlying technology infrastructure for use by other educational institutions."

"Have you ever noticed that your toddler spends more time playing with the gift-wrapping than the present that was wrapped inside?"

"It is with his MIT hat on that he chooses what he believes will be a big growth area for Creative Commons -- academic publications. He also has a personal interest in open hardware."

"Photographers normally use a flash to freeze quick-moving subjects, but now a team at MIT have created a camera so fast that it can video a flash of light itself."

"Two teams of scientists at the Large Hadron Collider near Geneva say they detected 'tantalizing hints' of the elusive Higgs boson, or 'God particle,' but no definitive proof."

"That’s fast enough to watch photons travel the length of a one-liter bottle."

"Efforts to remove CO2 directly from the air are likely to prove too expensive to be practical."

"Our feeble little minds can’t process the time that light takes to fill a room, but now we can see it happen in slow-motion with help from the MIT Media Lab and its trillion frames per second camera."

"Physicists are closing in on an elusive subatomic particle that, if found, would confirm a long-held understanding about why matter has mass and how the universe's fundamental building blocks behave."

"Spurred by interest in the role proteins involved in longevity might play in protecting against neurodegenerative disease, MIT researchers began routine tests of learning and memory in mice whose brains lacked the proteins, called sirtuins."

"More than 70 years ago, the M.I.T. electrical engineer Harold (Doc) Edgerton began using strobe lights to create remarkable photographs: a bullet stopped in flight as it pierced an apple, the coronet created by the splash of a drop of milk."

"When other institutions tested the goodwill of their customers, technology-based alternatives emerged to provide a better option."