MIT News: top stories

Prof. John Lienhard, Prof. Andrew Whittle and Windsor Sung write for The Boston Globe about the Flint water crisis. The authors write that, “The importance of safe water to public health cannot possibly be overstated. For these benefits to be sustainable, the price of water should reflect the real costs of maintaining our water systems.”

Prof. Paula Hammond speaks with MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell about why she feels it's imperative that researchers from different disciplines collaborate on cancer research. Hammond explained funding is needed to bring “scientists, clinicians, technologists together in places like the Koch Institute," where people "work collectively toward a cure.”

Wall Street Journal reporter Jeffrey Sparshott writes about a new study by MIT researchers that examines the current state of American entrepreneurship. The researchers found that American entrepreneurs face difficulties in the potential for “firms to scale in a meaningful way over time.”