In the Media

"This three-week-old robot created at the MIT Media Lab’s Mediated Matter group is spinning a web. Or maybe it’s more like a cocoon. Whatever you call it, it’s doing so without any help from humans, using tensile materials like string and rope to shroud itself in a woven enclosure of its own creation."

"A revolution is required in our attitude to car parking, according to the author of a new book. He claims we are adrift in a 'sea of asphalt' and calls on architects to design car parks which are more aesthetically pleasing and have less environmental impact."

"The death of Trayvon Martin has raised a lot of questions, including this one: Why is a child dead?"

"For decades, a small group of scientific dissenters has been trying to shoot holes in the prevailing science of climate change, offering one reason after another why the outlook simply must be wrong."

"Less than a year after NASA ended its shuttle program, players in America’s space business are casting around for new direction."

"Ladies from 10 college rugby teams scrummed in style yesterday, competing in MIT’s fifth annual Prom Dress Rugby Tournament."

"Drivers today are similarly attached to their cellphones and in-car technology. But unlike the drivers of the 1930s, they're conflicted over efforts to regulate them."

"In the last few years, we have gone from a world that was connected to a world that is now hyperconnected."

"The Center for Collective Intelligence brings together faculty from across MIT to conduct research on how new communications technologies are changing they way people work together."

"Residents of an MIT dorm dropped an upright piano from their roof Thursday to celebrate the last day students can drop classes without having them appear on their college transcript."

"A simple, unobtrusive sensor ‘could gauge the severity of epileptic seizures’, reports Massachusetts Institute Of Technology (MIT) in this week’s issue of Neurology."

"Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Amy Finkelstein won the American Economic Association’s John Bates Clark medal."

"If a smartphone or tablet with glass that’s glare-free, repels liquids and is self-cleaning sounds appealing, you might want to start following MIT’s research."

"The question is which dominates: The desire to keep more of the money you make or the desire to have more money in total?"

"The Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Foundation, a nonprofit founded by the state’s largest insurer, hired MIT economist Jonathan Gruber to analyze the savings that would accrue to those who pay health insurance premiums, if the state successfully implements cost controls."