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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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Economist warns on U.S. budget
Boston Herald (AP),
Economist warns on U.S. budget — The Boston Herald covers this week's MIT 150th Economics Symposium.
Businessweek,
"The study, led by MIT's Dr. Sandy Petland who runs the MIT Media Lab Entrepreneurship Program, tested whether early buzz could precipitate a product's ultimate success." — Story on "What Groupon and LivingSocial Cannot Offer"
PBS NOVA,
NOVA series — "Making Stuff: Smaller" — The episode of this series airing on Wednesday, Jan. 26, will feature Department of Physics Assistant Professor Pablo Jarillo-Herrero, recent winner of the Packard Fellowship.
Nature.com,
"But Steven Piantadosi and colleagues at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge say that, to convey a given amount of information, it is more efficient to shorten the least informative — and therefore the most predictable — words, rather than the most frequent ones."
The New York Times,
Book Review - Alone Together — The New York Times reviews MIT professor Sherry Turkle's new book on identity in the digital age.
BBC News Southern Counties,
"So far, the H5N1 strain has mainly infected birds and poultry workers, but experts fear the virus could mutate to pass easily from human to human. However, Massachusetts Institute of Technology found that to enter human respiratory cells the virus must first pick a very specific type of lock."
Bloomberg,
"[Rodney] Brooks’s MIT colleague, social scientist Sherry Turkle, shares his fascination with how human beings relate to technology, and vice versa."
Chicago Tribune,
"Scientists at MIT and Harvard explored the idea that endothelial cells might also influence cancer growth because tumors rely on a blood supply to grow. In mice, they used secretions from endothelial cells to slow the growth and aggressiveness of cancerous tumors, also identifying the particular molecules in these secretions that were involved in the process."
Wired,
"'It is one of the oldest and most pristine samples known,' said MIT graduate student Ian Garrick-Bethell, lead author of a study published Thursday in Science. 'If that wasn’t enough, it is also perhaps the most beautiful lunar rock, displaying a mixture of bright green and milky white crystals.'"
New Scientist - Blogs,
"Cheap 3D printers can now quickly make plastic replicas of almost anything, from an insect's wings to copies of their own parts. But now Amit Zoran and his team from the MIT Media Lab have used one to recreate the intricate design of a flute."
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