In the Media

"The shale gas energy industry needs to put in place better practices and reporting about 'fracking' before public concerns delay or even stop use of the technology that has created a boom in U.S. natural gas production, according to the MIT professor who led President Obama's subcommittee on shale gas."

"Last year Sharifi received a very different assignment: The Massachusetts Institute of Technology asked him to write an original work that would reflect the struggles for freedom across the Middle East."

"All of that said, the fact that men are more likely to blurt out That Phrase before they mean to doesn’t mean women never do the same."

"You're looking at AGNES, which stands for Age Gain Now Empathy System. AGNES is a tool that we developed at the lab to give students, engineers, and the companies and governments we work with the 'aha' moment of what it may feel like to be somebody in their late seventies with at least one or two chronic diseases." -MIT's Joe Coughlin

"Flying in formation around the moon, a pair of NASA probes began mapping the lunar gravity field in hopes of figuring out why Earth's only natural satellite is shaped the way it is."

"Simon Johnson, a professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Sloan School of Management and a Bloomberg View columnist, talks about the U.S. economy and fiscal policy."

"Science and technology are meaningful when interwoven with all of the other modes of learning. A STEM, without its bloom, quickly withers in the forest of everday life."

"The David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT and the Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center plan to announce the first recipients of funding from The Bridge Project, a research alliance between the two schools designed to bring bioengineering and clinical oncology together to solve challenging problems in cancer research and care."

"Even though it’s cool to be a nerd nowadays (Do you know people are always like, 'OH HEY I’M A GEEK!' expecting a round of applause?) sometimes some people need a little extra help."

"Google’s app platform clearly needs a helpful boost, and thanks to a series of new initiatives, the Android Market could see an uptick in both quantity and quality sooner than you think."

"Marc Raibert, a former MIT professor who is among the world’s foremost authorities in robot locomotion, sent a note to announce that his company’s Cheetah robot had broken the robot land speed record, clocking in at 18 mph on a treadmill in this video."

"Although the pictures and sound in digital television are transmitted together (the technical term is “multiplexed”), they are 'separate streams of data and are processed by separate hardware and/or software paths at television stations and in TV receivers,' said V. Michael Bove Jr. of the Media Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology."

"Saturday at the Hynes Convention Center in Boston was Day 2 of the MIT Sports Analytics Conference hosted by MIT’s Sloan Graduate School of Management."

"It was after the robotic hummingbird flew around the auditorium -- and after a speaker talked about the hypersonic plane that could fly from New York to the West Coast in 11 minutes -- that things got really edgy."

"On Feb. 13, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which has been posting course materials online for 10 years, opened registration for its first MOOC, a circuits and electronics course."