Alumni Startups: Using bike power to clean Lagos
Alumni Startups: Using bike power to clean Lagos
Bilikiss Adebiyi, CEO of Wecyclers, describes the lessons her co-founders have learned from taking a business plan built in one country and trying to execute it in another.
MIT visualizes how the brain loses and regains consciousness
MIT visualizes how the brain loses and regains consciousness
This array of videos shows spectrographic data (representing brain wave frequencies) from each of 44 electrodes attached to the scalp of a healthy volunteer undergoing propofol anesthesia. The spectrograms are arranged according to their approximate position on the ...
MIT-developed coating could prevent frost buildup
MIT-developed coating could prevent frost buildup
A team of MIT researchers has found a coating that outperforms others not only in preventing foggy buildups, but also in maintaining good optical properties without distortion.
Electricity From Solar Cells
Electricity From Solar Cells
We all know that solar cells use the sun's light to create electricity, but how exactly does that happen? License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SAMore information at http://k12videos.mit.edu/terms-conditions
The Music at MIT Oral History Project
The Music at MIT Oral History Project
The Lewis Music Library's Music at MIT Oral History Project was established in 1999 to document the vibrant history of music at MIT.
Conversation with the President: Transforming MIT's ...
Conversation with the President: Transforming MIT's educational experience
MIT President L. Rafael Reif discussed reinventing the residential research university for the future in light of rising costs and emerging online alternatives.
MIT Sloan Experts | Diversity in the Workplace
MIT Sloan Experts | Diversity in the Workplace
MIT Sloan Assistant Professor Evan Apfelbaum discusses the business case for diversity in the workplace.
4D Printing: Self-Folding Strand
4D Printing: Self-Folding Strand
A collaboration between Stratasys & The Self-Assembly Lab at MIT, which is headed by Skylar Tibbits, a lecturer in the Department of Architecture.
Communications Forum: "Convergence Journalism? Emerging ...
Communications Forum: "Convergence Journalism? Emerging Documentary and ...
Hybrid forms of multimedia, combining aspects of newspapers, documentary film and digital video are a notable feature of today's on-line journalism. How is this changing our journalism?
Nozomi Ando's Personal Story
Nozomi Ando's Personal Story
Nozomi, a self-described artist and comic book lover, describes how her training to become a scientist was akin to that of a ninja.
Imaging Viruses with Nanoscale MRI
Imaging Viruses with Nanoscale MRI
Ben Ofori-Okai discusses the concept of orbital degeneracy (two orbitals with the same energy) in relation to his research on nanoscale MRI (magnetic resonance imaging)
John Essigmann's Personal Story
John Essigmann's Personal Story
Professor John Essigmann describes how an early industry experience doing real science pushed him to pursue a career as a professor and professional scientist.
Hector Hernandez's Personal Story
Hector Hernandez's Personal Story
Hector initially worked in construction, but at age 29, he realized he wanted to use his mind instead of his back in his career.
Labeling Tumors with Quantum Dots
Labeling Tumors with Quantum Dots
Quantum dots are tiny semiconductor crystals with vivid colors that can be used as visual labels in biology and medicine. Quantum dots excited by UV radiation emit light with an energy and color that is determined by the size of the quantum dot. Darcy Wanger describes how the characteristics ...
Engineering Enzyme Pathways for Biofuel Development
Engineering Enzyme Pathways for Biofuel Development
Jingnan Lu's research focuses on converting carbon dioxide, an environmental pollutant, into biofuel. Here she explains how she engineers a carbon-storing microorganism into a biofuel production pathway.
Linking Oxidation to DNA Damage
Linking Oxidation to DNA Damage
Professor John Essigmann describes how oxidation reactions in our bodies are both essential for life and responsible for cell damage that can potentially lead to cancer.
Samuel Thompson's Personal Story
Samuel Thompson's Personal Story
Samuel Thompson brings a sense of play to his science research that he traces back to his love of the performing arts and his early exposure to science as a child.
President Obama's Inaugural Speech: Exceptionalism with a ...
President Obama's Inaugural Speech: Exceptionalism with a view | MIT Sloan ...
MIT Sloan Professor Leigh Hafrey discusses President Obama's second inaugural address.
In profile: Sallie "Penny" Chisholm
Sallie "Penny" Chisholm: National Medal of Science profile
Learn more about the civil and environmental engineer who has contributed to the discovery and understanding of the dominant photosynthetic organisms in the ocean.
Teaching robots to adapt
Teaching robots to adapt
Students show how household robots could use a little lateral thinking to compensate for their physical shortcomings.