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Borrowing from Mother Nature, a team of MIT researchers has built a school of swimming robo-fish that slip through the water just as gracefully as the real thing, if not quite as fast. Mechanical engineers Kamal Youcef-Toumi and Pablo Valdivia y Alvarado have designed the sleek robotic fish to ...
Researchers at MIT and UT-Knoxville have analyzed images of Titan's river networks and determined that in some regions, rivers have created surprisingly little erosion.
Richard Braatz believes mathematics can help streamline the road to discovery in pharmaceutical manufacturing as well as nanotechnology.
In this video, a strip of tape is peeled off of a surface (from left to right), forming a triangular tear. Video/ Pedro Reis, MIT Full news story. Frustrated by tape that won't peel off the roll in a straight line? Angry at wallpaper that refuses to tear neatly off ...
Twenty-five years ago today, on Jan. 28, 1986, the Space Shuttle Challenger broke apart 73 seconds into its flight, killing the seven crew members on board — including Ronald McNair PhD ’77. In this video — filmed in the lobby of the Ronald McNair Building — ...
A video showing the red-necked phalarope's feeding behavior.
This minuscule robot may be a harbinger of future devices that could fold themselves up into almost any shape imaginable.
Associate professor Ramesh Raskar speaks about his work pioneering innovative imaging platforms in the MIT Media Lab. Read more about Raskar's work at http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2011/profile-raskar-0929.html
Assistant professor at MIT Sloan Damon Centola describes research in which he compared the dissemination of public-health information through social networks with two different structures.
Meet a few of the members of MIT's Class of 2012 who are continuing their public service projects after graduation.
Open Learning Enterprise head Anant Agarwal discusses MITx, the Institute's new online-learning initiative.
MIT President Susan Hockfield and Harvard University President Drew Faust, accompanied by top officials from both institutions, announced on Wednesday a new collaboration that will unite the Cambridge-based universities in an ambitious new partnership to deliver online ...
In this highlight video of an Oct. 6, 2008 debate at MIT, representatives of the John McCain and Barack Obama presidential campaigns speak to the differences between their candidates' approaches to solving the nation's energy problems. View full debate. Read news ...
President Barack Obama, in a historic visit to the MIT campus on October 23, 2009, praised the Institute's commitment to energy research and issued a strong call for the nation to lead the world in the development of new, efficient and clean energy t
By helping biologists turn their hunches into rigorous mathematical models, Polina Golland builds software that interprets medical images. Read more about Golland's work at http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2012/profile-golland-0112.html
This computer simulation shows a cross-section of the plasma inside a tokamak reactor. In this simulation, only the large-scale turbulence effects are modeled — which is adequate for some cases
The testing of a prototype plasma rocket being developed at MIT that is much smaller than other rockets of its kind and runs on gases that are much less expensive than conventional propellants. This test involved a used coke bottle. Video: Oleg V. Batishchev Read the full story at ...
The testing of a prototype plasma rocket being developed at MIT that is much smaller than other rockets of its kind.
The testing of a prototype plasma rocket being developed at MIT that is much smaller than other rockets of its kind and runs on gases that are much less expensive than conventional propellants. (WARNING: audio is loud) Video: Oleg V. Batishchev Read the full story at ...
The testing of a prototype plasma rocket being developed at MIT that is much smaller than other rockets of its kind.
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