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Why stores should take shoppers’ emotions into account when setting prices.
Study: Children confuse “and” and “or” despite sophisticated reasoning.
Spectroscopic system with chip-scale lasers cuts detection time from minutes to microseconds.
Led by World Bank and IMF, coalition seeks to price emissions to tackle climate change.Video Embedded
In an article for The Huffington Post, Susan Blumenthal highlights how researchers from MIT have developed a paper-based test for diagnosing the Zika virus. Blumenthal writes that “the test consists of a paper covered with yellow dots that turns purple in the presence of the RNA of the virus.”
Process from MIT provides improved reactivity with much less platinum.
Senior Donald Little uses computer science to improve people’s everyday lives.
Century-old campus “Main Group” gets first major modernization, including efficient modern windows.
Biologist honored for his scientific leadership, pioneering work in genomics, and inspiring teaching.
Promising new approach overturns widespead metallurgical assumption
MIT conference stems from data-rich historical project on French theater.
New buildings, open space, and restaurants, plus research and commercial space, to bring all-day activity to the innovation hub.Video Embedded
The Economist reports that Prof. Daniela Rus and Dr. Shuhei Miyashita have developed a tiny origami robot that can be swallowed and used to collect dangerous items that have been accidentally ingested. “The device is based on foldable robot technology that their team of researchers have been working on for years.”
President Barack Obama honored Prof. Michael Artin and RPI President Shirley Ann Jackson, an MIT Corporation Life Member, with The National Medal of Science. Artin was honored for “leadership in modern algebraic geometry,” and Jackson for her work in “condensed matter physics and particle physics, and science-rooted public policy achievements,” according to AP reporter Darlene Superville.
MIT researchers have developed a tiny robot that can perch like an insect, writes G. Clay Whittaker for Popular Science. “It's a widely applicable breakthrough that will, for instance, keep future robots perched while they wait for instructions,” Clay explains.
Tim Logan writes for The Boston Globe that MIT has received approval to develop new buildings, open spaces, restaurants, research and commercial spaces in Kendall Square. “We want to create a greater sense of place,” says Provost Martin Schmidt. “A greater place to live and learn, not only for our community, but also for our neighbors.”
Forbes contributor Pete Saunders highlights a new study by Prof. Mercedes Delgado that examines the relationship between industry clusters and employment growth in cities. Delgado found that “while inner city neighborhoods start with an economic disadvantage compared to central business districts, they do have competitive advantages.”
Prof. Daniela Rus speaks on Marketplace Tech about the origami robot that her group developed to serve as a microsurgeon. “This robot is ingestible in the form of a capsule,” explains Rus. “Once the robot reaches the stomach, the robot unfolds and can do interesting tasks.”
Prof. Thomas Kochan speaks with WBUR reporter Deborah Becker about the contract dispute between Verizon and the company’s employees. Kochan says that in order to avoid these situations in the future, “we need to fundamentally change our labor policy to provide more workers access to a variety of different ways to have a voice at work.”
![A new study finds generally higher prices with occasional sales mixed in will yield more revenue than consistently low prices, at least for fashionable goods. “The high-value customers will still buy the product,” Karen Zheng says. “They want to [avoid] this feeling of regret, which would occur if they wait now and then cannot get it in the future.”](https://web-archive.nli.org.il/National_Library/20160526010038im_/http://news.mit.edu/sites/mit.edu.newsoffice/files/styles/article_cover_image_full/public/images/2016/MIT-Quantifying-Regret.jpg?itok=4g1sgXIX)
![“Children seem to interpret disjunction like conjunction,” observes MIT Linguistics Professor Danny Fox. However, Fox adds, although “it has been claimed children are very different from adults in the interpretation of logical words,” the study’s larger implication is almost the opposite — namely that “the child is [otherwise] identical to the adult, but there is a very small parameter that distinguishes them.”](https://web-archive.nli.org.il/National_Library/20160526010038im_/http://news.mit.edu/sites/mit.edu.newsoffice/files/styles/article_cover_image_small/public/images/2016/MIT-Language-Acquisition.jpg?itok=8SGBGM1R)
