In the Media

“Imagine a piece of metal 30,000 times thinner than one of the hairs on your head. Mixed with a little protein from bee venom, that microscopic filament becomes the most powerful explosives-detection system in history, able to detect a single molecule of dangerous chemicals.”

"During a panel discussion—moderated by linguist and cognitive scientist Steven Pinker—that kicked off MIT’s Brains, Minds, and Machines symposium, panelists called for a return to the style of research that marked the early years of the field, one driven more by curiosity rather than narrow applications."

"A Boston company that plans to make synthetic jet fuel from grease and animal fat is among five teams vying for MIT’s $200,000 Clean Energy Prize."

"Banerjee's studies have shown that for the poor, improving their quality of life is just as important as improving their nutrition."

"The last symposium in M.I.T.'s 150-day celebration of its 150th anniversary is devoted to the question: 'Whatever happened to AI?'"

"The next space-shuttle launch will inaugurate a quest for a realm of the Universe that few believe exists."

"Drawing inspiration from the beetle’s fog-harvesting trick, Shreerang Chhatre, a graduate student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and his colleagues have developed a simple and inexpensive way to produce drinking water."

“We don’t want him to be a martyr,” said Jim Walsh, a Mideast terrorism expert at MIT. “We don’t want him in his death to accomplish more than in his life."

"But yesterday, in an open house attended by thousands of the awestruck, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology swung wide its doors to places, people, and preposterously ingenious projects that the public rarely sees."

"The festival begins Saturday with a campus-wide open house at MIT that includes free admission to the MIT Museum, at 265 Massachusetts Ave., and a number of demonstrations and activities in celebration of MIT’s 150th anniversary."

"The spectrometer, the long-gestating brainchild of Sam Ting, a Nobel physics laureate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, consists of a giant magnet and detectors that together act as a cosmic sifter, looking for evidence of the elusive 'dark matter' that is thought to pervade the universe."

"The Massachusetts Institute of Technology yesterday named Joichi Ito as the next director of the MIT Media Lab."

"Experts on nuclear power predict that Japan’s Fukushima crisis will lead to a major rethinking of how spent nuclear fuel is handled in the United States but have cast doubt on a proposed solution: reprocessing the fuel to recover plutonium and other materials for reuse."

"The distracted are becoming so distracting that some college professors — at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, no less — think it’s time to unwire the halls of higher education." - Editorial

"The Massachusetts Institute of Technology today released a report called the 'Future of the Nuclear Fuel Cycle,' where a panel argued that the U.S. policy needs to make spent-fuel treatment an integral part of nuclear plant operations, rather than an 'afterthought.'"