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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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The Huffington Post,
"Gift giving can be fraught with anxiety, and Valentine's Day gifts are no exception." -MIT's Renee Richardson Gosline
Wired.co.uk,
"Synthetic biologists at MIT have developed 'genetic circuits' that can perform basic logic functions in living cells."
Los Angeles Times,
"Researchers believe they may have spotted the youngest black hole in the Milky Way galaxy, and — from scientists’ point of view – it’s not far away."
Nature,
"In the wake of Hurricane Sandy, scientists and officials are trying to protect the largest US city from future floods."
Wired.co.uk,
"Children's rooms across the country are littered with well-meaning but unloved 'edutainment' toys. But Skylar Tibbits, an architect and lecturer at MIT, has designed one that's educational, aesthetically satisfying and fun."
Nature News,
"Synthetic biology seeks to bring concepts from electronic engineering to cell biology, treating gene functions as components in a circuit. To that end, researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge have devised a set of simple genetic modules that respond to inputs much like the Boolean logic gates used in computers."
Scientific American,
"Power-conducting films that could be stuck to any surface under the sun are coming. Will that get us the solar power we need?"
USA Today,
"Earth orbits in a shooting gallery of asteroids and space rocks, but an impact looks unlikely for the foreseeable future."
The Huffington Post,
"So is there a conflict between science and religion?" -MIT's Max Tegmark
The Guardian,
"In his book, Theory U, Dr Otto Scharmer, senior lecturer at MIT, explores how leadership itself needs to transform in order to be able to lead us across this threshold."
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