The Marangoni Effect: How to make a soap-propelled boat!
The Marangoni Effect: How to make a soap-propelled boat!
The differences of surface tension between soap and water can really make things go.
Introducing The Listening Room
The Listening Room and music at MIT
The School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences' Web-based collection showcases the Institute’s longstanding engagement with music.
Why the LHC won't destroy the planet
The LHC won't destroy the planet (but will spark a revolution)
This lecture explains the scientific basis for particle physicists' confidence, both in the discovery potential of the LHC and in its absolute safety.
The layers of the Earth
The layers of the Earth
The Earth is approximately 4,000 miles from the center to its surface, but what makes up those miles of earth? Let's take a journey inside.
The Invention of the Battery
The Invention of the Battery
How does a battery work? Allow Alessandro Volta and Luigi Galvani to explain.
The Invention of Optical Coherence Tomography
The Invention of Optical Coherence Tomography
Optical coherence tomography (OCT) uses light to enable real-time visualization of tissue microstructure and pathology.
The Interphase Program
The Interphase Program at MIT
Interphase is a rigorous seven-week summer residential, academic and community-building program for admitted MIT freshmen that instills subject mastery of calculus, physics and chemistry, and helps them explore their cultural identities through reading, writing and discussion. In addition, ...
The Ground Beneath Her Feet
The Ground Beneath Her Feet
Alison Malcolm is an Assistant Professor of Geophysics in the Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences at MIT.
The Green Grease Project
The Green Grease Project
Students from MIT's Biodiesel team organized the Green Grease project to help garbage pickers in Brazil save money and be more environmentally friendly by retrofitting their transport vehicles. In summer 2010, the team traveled to Sao Paulo, Brazil
The Future of Localized Manufacturing
The Future of Localized Manufacturing
Neil Gershenfeld, director of the MIT Center for Bits and Atoms, and Robert Atkinson, founder and president of the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, discuss the potential role of localized 3-D printing in manufacturing.
The Coldest Place in the Universe
The Coldest Place in the Universe
A short documentary on the Bose-Einstein Condensate work done in Wolfgang Ketterle's lab.
The City Car
The City Car
Conversation with Ryan Chin, Research Associate and PhD candidate at the MIT Media Lab, about the CityCar electric automobile.
The Chameleon Guitar
The Chameleon Guitar: Physical Heart, Virtual Body
The Chameleon Guitar — so named for its ability to mimic different instruments — is an electric guitar whose body has a separate central section that is removable.
The Center for Advanced Urbanism
The Center for Advanced Urbanism
The CAU is committed to fostering a rigorous design culture for the large scale
The Buckliball
The Buckliball
Inspired by a toy, the ‘buckliball’ — a collapsible structure fabricated from a single piece of material — represents a new class of 3-D, origami-like structures.
The Best View in the Solar System
The Best View in the Solar System
Earth from the International Space Station, as assembled by NASA's Johnson Space Center and MIT's Alex Rivest.
The Attractiveness Of Magnetic Fields
The Attractiveness Of Magnetic Fields
What causes a material to be magnetic?
The 19th Pietro Belluschi Lecture: "Recent Works Around the ...
The 19th Pietro Belluschi Lecture: "Recent Works Around the World"
Architect Benedetta Tagliabue directs Miralle/Tagliabue-EMBT in Barcelona.
Why science should be a story
TEDxBeaconStreet: Science Should Be a Story — Tyler DeWitt
PhD candidate Tyler DeWitt discusses how scientists could better focus on communicating their main ideas through appealing narratives.
Amos Winter: The cheap all-terrain wheelchair
TEDx Talks: Amos Winter — The cheap all-terrain wheelchair
How do you build a wheelchair ready to blaze through mud and sand, all for under $200?