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MIT in the Media

The following news clips about MIT, updated on a regular basis, are just a partial selection of our most recent media coverage.
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NPR,
"NASA's space shuttle may be down for the count, but robotic planetary missions are up, up and away. Before the end of this year, three new solar system probes are due to launch."
BBC News,
"Scientists have developed a mathematical model that predicts the maximum height trees can reach in particular environmental conditions."
Popular Science,
"MIT engineers have a reputation for applying their vast intellectual resources and physical energies toward solving some of mankind’s greatest challenges. And it’s fair to say this morning that at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, researchers have lived up to that expectation."
New Scientist,
"If it works, this black sludge will transform the rechargeable battery, doubling the range of electric cars and making petroleum obsolete."
NPR,
"Maria Zuber, a planetary scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, says this is a compelling new theory of why the moon can have mountains, even if it doesn't have any volcanoes or colliding continents."
Reuters,
"A team of researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has figured out a way to deliver low cost solar energy at night as well as during the day, by combining a concentrated solar power system with a molten salt heat storage system."
Wired,
"When Jolt detects that a program is stuck in a certain kind of infinite loop, it can force it to exit the loop and continue executing."
Boston.com,
"After surviving a Nazi concentration camp as a boy and fleeing communist rule in his native Czechoslovakia, Michael Gruenbaum remembers well the first job he got upon immigrating to the United States and becoming a student at MIT."
The New York Times,
"A robot that bakes cookies!"
MSNBC,
"The MIT team is confident it can further improve the energy density of its micro-reactors though, and they're confident it could get to the point your smartphone could go for a week without needing a recharge, just from its own heat."
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