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Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are trying to use light so people with Type I diabetes can test their blood sugar levels with light, instead of with a needle.

“The spirit of experimentation is in trying new things. Even if it wasn’t perfect for us, there are some positives in those tools. We try to find out what works in something that’s broken.” - Remlee Green, user-experience librarian at MIT, on how MIT Libraries' Beta Graveyard — the final resting place for underused tools and apps.

"If there is an anti-universe, perhaps out there beyond the edge of our universe, our space-based detector may well be able to bring us signs of its existence." - MIT professor Sam Ting on a particle detector to be mounted on the International Space Station next year.

“Things are very much in flux. We will probably need human embryonic stem cells for a while. And then we probably will not need them anymore." - Professor of Biology Rudolf Jaenisch on the implications of the recent stem cell court decision.

A team of students from MIT's SENSEable Cities Lab have just won the American round of the 2010 James Dyson Award for inventing the Copenhagen Wheel.

"The secret to a successful career in science, engineering or math is to find something you both like doing and are good at. Take your time in college to explore and find what suits you." - Sara Seager, professor of planetary science and of physics, on "10 Tips for Women Students in Science Fields"

"Kothari, also a professor of management at the Cambridge-based school, is heading up a new partnership between Sloan and the Indian School of Business, in Hyderabad." - Story on MIT Sloan School of Management's collaboration with the Indian School of Business, which will be led by Sloan Deputy Dean S.P. Kothari

"I don’t think in the next 30 to 40 years, anybody is [going to be] foolish enough to build an experiment like this, given the trouble we went through." - Samuel C.C. Ting, the Thomas Dudley Cabot Professor of Physics, on the alpha magnetic spectrometer he designed that will fly with the last Space Shuttle next February.

The University of Georgia is the top party school, Massachusetts Institute of Technology undergraduates study the most and students at Brown University are the happiest, according to a survey by Princeton Review Inc. - Story on Princeton Review's "The Best 373 Colleges," which is available today.

"The benches were deep on both sides." - William Swelbar, research engineer at MIT, on the executive structure after the merger of Continental and United Airlines.

"Superimposing a historic photo on an up-to-date snap of the same scene is a neat way to bring history to life." - Story on collaborative work from MIT and Adobe on software that can help match current photos to ones taken at the same place and angle previously.

NBC News is convening its own summit with education and political leaders in September to talk about ways to improve schools in light of statistics showing the U.S. lagging in student achievement. - MIT President Susan Hockfield will take part in the summit.

"Most telescopes focus on the hottest and brightest objects in the universe. WISE is especially sensitive to seeing what's cool and dark, what you could call the stealth objects of the universe." - Richard Binzel, professor of planetary sciences, on WISE, or Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, a new NASA telescope.

Video: The Culture of Innovation - Director of MIT's Industrial Performance Center and Head of the Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering Richard Lester discusses work out of MIT.

"The goal is to enable people to become creators, not just consumers, in this mobile world." - Hal Abelson, the Class of 1922 Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, on software he helped develop to make it easy for people to write applications for Android smartphones.