In the Media

"Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are replacing boots on the ground in some wars. Commercially, UAVs are being used for things like crop-dusting and flood mapping."

"(Juergen) Steimle has recently left the Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany, to join the Fluid Interfaces group at MIT's Media Lab. He has developed a range of ways to use the folds in foldable displays to create some quite novel forms of interaction."

"Spider silk is well known for some spectacular properties. It is stronger than steel and tougher than Kevlar yet flexible enough to be spun into a wide variety of shapes. New research shows that the material is not only strong but also smart."

"Students from MIT, Harvard and Brown will compete this weekend in Facebook’s first tri-school hackathon."

"There is a growing realization that leadership and business school curricula need to address values and the art of leadership. The arts appear to help us deepen the discussion." -Christine Kelly, MIT Sloan School

"The boom in cheap natural gas in this country is good news for the environment, because relatively clean gas is replacing dirty coal-fired power plants. But in the long run, cheap natural gas could slow the growth of even cleaner sources of energy, such as wind and solar power."

"Did you know that Twitter is full of inane, boring tweets that nobody wants to read? It’s true, according to science!"

"An MIT researcher has developed a method of manufacturing solar panels on the spot from agricultural waste, sidestepping the need for silicon and making ready-to-mix solar cheap and abundant virtually anywhere."

"In the most intensely anticipated stock offering in years, social networking giant Facebook late Wednesday filed papers to raise $5 billion through an initial public offering of stock, probably between April and June."

"As far as touchdown celebrations go, the spike is a classic, perhaps the original aggressive display of jubilation that never required choreography or props."

"Spiders’ silk has been the envy of materials engineers for decades. Its combination of flexibility and durability has been difficult to match with even the most advanced technology."

"However well-intentioned, striving to create the appearance of colorblindness by sidestepping the specter of race can be more of an obstacle than an asset to good management practice."

"Research into how iron, copper, zinc and other metals work in the brain may help unlock some of the secrets of degenerative diseases like Alzheimer's and Parkinson's."

"The aging of America may be good for the U.S. labor market."

"Facebook is preparing to go public in the biggest tech IPO since Google. But what does that mean for its users – and its rivals?"