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What about a spoon that uses tiny sensors to measure the temperature, acidity, salinity and viscosity of a food you're making? - Research out of MIT on the kitchen of the future

A pioneer in yeast genetics whose work paved the way for modern molecular biology as well as antibiotic and vaccine development has been honored for his life's work. - Story on Gerald Fink being awarded the $500,000 Genetics Prize of The Peter and Patricia Gruber Foundation.

"The objective was to gather some of the founders, CEOs, and senior execs from the most successful Massachusetts companies of the past decade, and have them talk about how they grew from start-up to major player." - Photos and audio from the first-ever Momentum Summit, held at MIT's Sloan School of Management.

"We're not just a brain in a jar, our body is fundamentally tied to our understanding of the world." - Story on haptic research by Joshua M. Ackerman, an assistant professor of marketing at the MIT Sloan School of Management

“I wouldn’t have known the first thing about doing all of this. The people from the Deshpande Center led me through.” - Douglas Hart, professor of mechanical engineering, about how investors are helping ensure that promising ideas are nurtured and turned into successful start-ups.

Imagine that the same rechargeable battery in your cell phone could power a device that requires 10 times the energy. That possibility may be closer than you think. - Story on battery research out of MIT by Yang Shao-Horn and Paula Hammond

"French should be taught as a foreign language for Haitians, with Creole as the language of instruction." - OP/ED by Michel DeGraff on the language barrier in Haiti

"Mr. Mitchell was one of the world’s most respected theorists about the future of the city and the automobile." - New York Times piece on Bill Mitchell, who passed away Saturday at the age of 65

Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology said that prices of commercial property sold by major institutional investors nationwide fell slightly in the first quarter compared with the last quarter of 2009. - Story on commercial property values and the MIT Center for Real Estate index

"Over and over, kids raised the same three examples of feeling hurt and not wanting to show it when their mom or dad would be on their devices instead of paying attention to them." - Sherry Turkle, a professor in the Program in Science, Technology, and Society, on parents' technological distractions

"We are quite a ways away from a detailed understanding of all the myriad things that caused the crisis." - Andrew Lo, Harris & Harris Group Professor in the MIT Sloan School of Management, on the understanding the financial crisis.

VIDEO: MIT researchers working on easier allergy test

"We don't have alternatives ready to be deployed tomorrow." - Chemical engineering professor Greg Stephanopoulos on the present and future of off-shore drilling

An MIT team aims to bring aviation into the 21st century with two bold new designs for commercial airliners that could trim fuel use by up to 70 percent while increasing passenger capacity.

Mixing whimsy and wonkishness, MIT’s Toy Lab has again produced a series of lively student inventions aimed at amazing kids. - Story on the Toy Lab's recent PLAYsentations