In the Media

"Creating an environment that allows small companies to proliferate and hire has taken on an increased importance in the national political agenda."

"Valentine's Day is around the corner. But before you chalk it up to a greeting card holiday, consider this: There's actually some real science behind those feelings of romance and affection."

"Using stem cells to create liver-like cells for laboratory research may advance efforts to find out why people respond differently to hepatitis C infection, scientists say."

"During the past two weeks, six teams of students, doctors, engineers, product designers, computer programmers, and entrepreneurs have been developing prototypes of inventions designed to help patients take control of their health."

"In describing the Transition, we use the phrase 'roadable aircraft' instead of 'flying car' to help set expectations for what it is and how it will be used."

"For the last three days, 2,500 of the world’s leaders convened to discuss global poverty, political upheaval, climate change and whatever else keeps them up at night."

"Researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and RWTH Aachen University in Germany have come up with an improved design for the giant mirrors that focus the sun's heat in the new generation of 'concentrating solar power' plants."

"MIT graduate student Kayla Menard is among those who wants her voice to be heard screaming. She was sending a text from her 3-month-old iPhone while waiting for a train at Boston's Park Street Station last month when someone snatched it from her hand and ran."

"Rents in the Boston area hit record highs in the last quarter of 2011, pushed up by increased demand and declining inventory, maintaining the region’s reputation as one of the country’s most expensive places to live."

"Yesterday, I moderated a panel on 'The Future of Economics.' The panel included two Nobel laureates in economics – Peter Diamond of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Joe Stiglitz of Columbia."

"Preventing a 'lost generation' of workers unable to get jobs is one of the world economy's biggest problems, according to delegates at the World Economic Forum."

"Even if he didn’t quite make it all the way to outer space, as some early reports claimed, a two-inch Lego man, with a fixed grin and a Canadian flag in his hand, did travel about 80,000 feet above the Earth’s surface to the upper stratosphere this month, and he has the stunning video to prove it."

"But unless traditional colleges figure out a way to incorporate the new players and their ideas, such as MIT did recently, the innovators will figure out a way around the credentialing hurdle that will be acceptable to students, parents, and, most important, employers."

"A new study of a lunar rock scooped up by Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin during their Apollo 11 mission indicates that the ancient moon long sustained a dynamo—a convecting fluid core, much like Earth's, that produces a global magnetic field. The age of the rock implies that the lunar dynamo was still going some 3.7 billion years ago, about 800 million years after the moon's formation."

"As President Obama and GOP presidential candidates talk about reviving the U.S. manufacturing sector in hopes of creating jobs, how realistic is that goal in the face of continued outsourcing and machines filling jobs once held by humans?"