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Researchers at MIT are using a new mathematical model to better understand how contagious diseases are spread by air travel.
An excerpt from the clean-energy address President Obama delivered at Kresge Auditorium on Friday, October 24. Video: Melanie Gonick; Speech footage: AMPS
MIT’s Science Fiction Society curates an enormous library containing more than 90 percent of all English language science fiction ever published.
The School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences' Web-based collection showcases the Institute’s longstanding engagement with music.
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, ...
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 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.
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.
MIT students and residents of an orphanage in Peru work on, and try out, the bicilavadora -- a cheap, reliable washing machine powered by bicycle parts. The device can be constructed mostly using parts and tools that are readily available almost everywhere in the developing world. Video: ...
MIT students and residents of an orphanage in Peru work on, and try out, the bicilavadora — a cheap, reliable washing machine powered by bicycle parts.
An "artificial leaf" made by Daniel Nocera and his team, using a silicon solar cell with novel catalyst materials bonded to its two sides, is shown in a container of water with light (simulating sunlight) shining on it. The light generates a flow of electricity that causes the water molecules, ...
A prototype of what is being touted as the worlds first practical flying car takes to the air for the first time.
Tucked deep within MIT's campus is a miniature world of model trains, elaborate miniature buildings and detailed sceneries. Now entering its 65th year, the Tech Model Railroad Club of MIT (TMRC) still caters to model railroaders, rail-fans and hackers alike.In this video we take a tour of the ...
Students show how household robots could use a little lateral thinking to compensate for their physical shortcomings.
A T cell with a polymer "backpack" attached moves across a surface. The backpack does not impede its normal motion.
Pierre Azoulay, an economist at MIT Sloan, studies how life scientists work - or, more precisely, what makes them work well.
In this video, MIT researchers add ammonium chloride in solution to the tunable gel, changing the gel's color. Washing the ammonium chloride away returns the gel to its original color. Full storyVideo / Youngjong Kang
Harnessing the principle that allows blood to clot, MIT researchers are working on new synthetic materials to plug holes.
In the annual Head of the Zesiger, students design and then race boats constructed solely out of cardboard, paint and tape.
A team of MIT researchers has developed a new way to generate nanofibers, using hardware built through standard chip-manufacturing processes.
MIT's Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences stands at the nexus of neuroscience, biology and psychology. We combine these disciplines to study ...
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