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MIT student and co-founder of the MIT Rubik's Cube Club Tim Reynolds solves four cubes in 1:10.
This animation illustrates how the constant outflow of particles from the sun, called the solar wind, interacts with the surrounding interstellar medium (ISM). Where the outflow first encounters the ISM, it forms a shockwave called the termination shock--the boundary ...
MITs Solar Electric Vehicle Team, the oldest such student team in the country, unveiled its latest high-tech car on Friday, Feb. 27, in Lobby 13.
A team led by MIT students this week successfully tested a prototype of what may be the most cost-efficient solar power system in the world. Here inventor Doug Wood demonstrates the solar dish's power by using it to set fire to a board held at the focal point. More infoVideo/David Chandler, ...
Researchers have engineered a soft autonomous robot that moves via peristalsis, crawling across surfaces by contracting segments of its body, much like an earthworm.
Imagine that you have a big box of sand in which you bury a tiny model of a footstool. A few seconds later, you reach into the box and pull out a full-size footstool: The sand has assembled itself into a large-scale replica of the model.
Sand in an hourglass might seem simple and straightforward, but such granular materials are actually tricky to model. Ken Kamrin of MIT MechE has come up with a model that predicts the flow of granular materials under a variety of conditions.
A new system for ultrasound imaging developed at MIT allows precise measurements and tracking of disease progression.
Self-oscillating gels are materials that continuously change back and forth between different states — such as color or size — without provocation from external stimuli. These changes are caused by the Belousov-Zhabotinsky chemical reaction, which was discovered during the 1950s. Without ...
The ability to see through walls is no longer the stuff of science fiction. Thanks to new radar technology developed at MIT's Lincoln Laboratory a system has been built by researchers that can see through walls from some distance away, giving an instantaneous picture ...
A time-lapse video showing the day of the memorial service for fallen MIT Police Officer Sean Collier on April 24, 2013. This video was shot from Westgate, an MIT dormitory building. See more video from around campus on the day of the memorial: ...
On the sixth-floor of a building at MIT, students are busy measuring flour, melting chocolate and beating eggs. But they're not just trying to satisfy a sweet tooth -- they're doing science.
On the sixth-floor of a building at MIT, students are busy measuring flour, melting chocolate and beating eggs. But they're not just trying to satisfy a sweet tooth — they're doing science.
Animation showing how the base of a water droplet forms small "necks" as it moves across a surface that has pillars etched on it.
A team of MIT researchers has built a school of swimming robo-fish designed to more easily maneuver into areas where traditional underwater autonomous vehicles can't go. For more information, read the full story at http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2009/robo-fish-0824.html
MIT researchers are developing a new kind of autonomous wheelchair that can learn all about the locations in a given building, and then take its occupant to a given place in response to a verbal command. Full story
MIT computer scientists Leslie Kaelbling and Tomás Lozano-Pérez use a Willow Garage PR2 robot to demonstrate their new approach for integrating task and motion planning in robots. The researchers say their algorithm is very much still a work in progress, as can be ...
Where other roboticists try to suppress the complex dynamics of mechanical systems, Russ Tedrake exploits them, to make control more efficient and versatile.
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