In the Media

"We’re producing more natural gas these days than we can use, thanks to new techniques to extract gas from shale."

"Light from three ancient stars at the edge of the Milky Way indicates that the stars contain tellurium, a brittle, superconducting element that is rare on Earth."

"And so the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference was born in 2007."

"By fulfilling certain physical education requirements, MIT students can receive pirate certificate."

"When The Boston Club reported in its 2010 census of the 100 largest public corporations in Massachusetts that only 11.3 percent of their board seats were filled by women, our reaction was 'what’s wrong with this picture?'”

"Nature deals some unkind blows, but none is more hurtful to the pride of man than the looming demise of the Y chromosome."

"'What would happen if we could turn off the machine?,' (MIT's Jeff) Lieberman asks, 'If we could transcend our individual experience of the world?'"

"MIT researcher and renowned physicist, Dr. Andreas Mershin, figured out a way to make electricity-generating solar cells from green grass."

"If companies switched out gasoline-burning vehicles with new electric vehicles for their urban delivery fleets, a new MIT study has found that they could save some serious dineros."

"According to research conducted by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, renewable sources of energy such as the sun and wind could become economically competitive with traditional sources of energy via the use of liquid batteries."

"In any case, is maximum liquidity the right goal? Not necessarily, because a high degree of liquidity in good times can lull investors into a false sense of safety and reduce their incentive to do careful credit analysis." -Simon Johnson

"Under Dr. Hockfield, M.I.T. has diversified its student body — 45 percent of the class of 2015 are women and 24 percent are underrepresented minorities — and seen a convergence of research in life sciences and research in engineering and the physical sciences."

“Susan Hockfield is a transformative leader and a great friend.” -Governor Deval Patrick

"A remote-controlled microchip that’s implanted in patients and programmed to release medication on schedule worked in its first trial, validating a new approach that could help improve drug management in chronic diseases."

"What is the normal life span of a voice? Can training or techniques prevent aging of the vocal cords, and can surgery -- or a special gel -- correct it?"