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Sometimes color helps. Sometimes it just gets in the way, says MIT's Felice Frankel
MIT researchers have invented a new imaging system that allowed them to create this three-dimensional rendering of the cartilage that forms the skull of a five-day-old zebrafish larva.
Architect Christoph Reinhart’s work is all about daylight and its effects: how people respond to light in buildings, and how it might be used more effectively.
On the intersection of her personal and professional lives
Using a bicycle wheel to thresh millet, making LEGO-like bricks from dirt, or hooking up an electric generator to an irrigation pump may not save the world, but such simple projects could go a long way toward improving the lives of millions of people living in the ...
Associate Professor of Materials Science and Engineering Jeffrey Grossman explores new possibilities in topics from molecules to rooftop solar panels. Read more about Grossman's work at http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2012/profile-grossman-0126.html
MIT researchers have engineered a device that delivers a tiny, high-pressure jet of medicine through the skin without the use of a hypodermic needle.
Scalable nanopatterned surfaces designed by MIT researchers could make for more efficient power generation and desalination.
The sensitive instruments on the orbital Kepler Observatory show a smooth rise and fall of the light between transits caused by the changing phases of the planet, similar to those of our moon. This is a combination of both the light emitted from the planet and the ...
Making stem-cell therapy a reality In Killian Award lecture, Rudolf Jaenisch outlines progress and possibilities for treating human disease with stem cells. Read more on the MIT News Office website here.
Reif, 61, was elected to the post on Wednesday, May 16, by a vote of the MIT Corporation. He will assume the MIT presidency on July 2.
The movie shows a z-stack (250 ?m square) taken from the pial surface to a depth of 350 ?m, every 2 ?m. The depth is indicated every 10 ?m in the bottom left corner. The left panel shows labeling with SR101, which selectively labels astrocytes only. The center panel shows the labeling with ...
Amos Winter discusses the Leveraged Freedom Chair (LFC) and results of recent trials in East Africa.
Scientists at MIT and the University of Pennsylvania are taking more than inspiration from nature — they’re taking ingredients.
"A revolutionary super-slippery coating to liberate your ketchup!"
MIT mechanical engineering graduate student Nenad Miljkovic on condensation, nanodroplet formation, and new nanopatterned surfaces.
MIT researchers have developed new software that amplifies variations in successive frames of video that are imperceptible to the naked eye.
A team of researchers at MIT has discovered a way to harness the wrinkling process in a controlled and orderly way.
Nick Fang says predicting how hydrogels transform could help in the design of more complex and effective drug-delivery systems.
Video shows E. coli cells being manipulated on a silicon chip using 'optical tweezers' to form the letters 'MIT.' Video by Lang and Appleyard, MIT. MORE
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