In the Media

"In the drive to achieve solar cells that produce electricity more efficiently, we have a new ally – the M13 virus."

"Organizations world-wide have placed a huge wager on information technology, spending an estimated $594 billion on computer hardware and software in 2010 alone. But what are the keys to making the most of this investment?"

"'If you do an experiment with such a large magnet … you're entering a new domain. You don't know what you'll see,' said Ting, a physics professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who shared a 1976 Nobel Prize for discovering a subatomic particle."

"In a paper presented last month, Hari Balakrishnan of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) suggests how a device's movements could be predicted by sampling data from built-in motion, positioning, and other sensors, bumping throughput by around 50%."

"At the Massachusetts Institute of Technology — home to the father of the World Wide Web and where the Internet is accessible even near the banks of the Charles River — students’ eyes obsessively wander, midconversation, down to laptops and cellphones, checking for missed updates from friends."

"For almost two years, Alex Pentland at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has tracked 60 families living in campus quarters via sensors and software on their smartphones—recording their movements, relationships, moods, health, calling habits and spending."

"[It is] a very complicated time — one that tests the limits of human ingenuity and understanding." - MIT President Susan Hockfield on RadioBoston

"A new class of transparent photovoltaic cells has been developed that can turn an ordinary windowpane into a solar panel without impeding the passage of visible light, scientists said Tuesday."

"Bizarrely, when two of Zwierlein's clouds collide, they bounce off one another like billiard balls."

"Springmann says that from the first time she stepped foot on the Kendall train platform, she was struck by how the sculpture brings people together."

"Is the Easter bunny losing some of its iconic cachet to the Easter egg?"

"'We definitely have seen recruiting pick up this year,' said Melanie Parker, MIT’s executive director of career services."

"Melanie Kenderdine, the executive director of the M.I.T. Energy Initiative, told CNBC on Tuesday that 'there are major scientific organizations that think we should actually extend that hundred-year period, not shorten it.'"

"By comparison the marathon that took place on Friday night at MIT’s Kresge Auditorium was decidedly more modest, clocking in at just over five hours and with the bracing collisions kept to the music itself."

"Coated onto a pane of standard window glass, a potentially revolutionary photovoltaic technology developed by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology uses organic molecules to capture the energy of infrared light without blocking the flow of light."