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Scientists from MIT, Brown University, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center and other institutions have mapped the moon's Shackleton crater with unprecedented detail, and found possible evidence for small amounts of ice on the crater's floor.
Imagine windows that not only provide a clear view and illuminate rooms, but also use sunlight to efficiently help power the building they are part of. MIT engineers report a new approach to harnessing the sun's energy that could allow just that. Full storyVideo/MIT ...
Michael Snively, a junior in mechanical engineering, organized an attempt to break the world record for mattress dominoes, held in MIT's Lobby 7 during the days of freshman orientation.
MIT scientists have used Archimedes' principle to solve a vexing puzzle — how to measure the density of a single cell.
This mechanical model of the phalarope beak, showing its transport of a micro-liter droplet, helped MIT researchers discover how the bird propels food upwards to its throat. Video taken at 2000 fps, slowed down to 30 fps. More infoVIDEO / Manu Prakash, MIT
Video of a patch of engineered heart tissue "beating" in response to electrical field stimulation. The tissue was created by culturing rat heart cells on an accordion-like honeycomb scaffold developed by MIT researchers. Original magnification = 100x. Photo Credit G.C. Engelmayr Jr., MIT
Assistant professor in MIT's Department of Materials Science and Engineering Michael Demkowicz designs materials for extreme environments such as high temperature, high stress and radiation damage.
Researchers at MIT and MGH have developed a polymer gel that mimics the vibrations of human vocal cords. This video shows the polymer vocal cord model vibrating when air is blown from below, and a comparison with human vocal cords.
A look at MIT's 145th Commencement from a different perspective.
An MIT engineer peels a new thin material for fuel cells from a Teflon-coated substrate. Full story VIDEO / Courtesy Avni Argun and Nathan Ashcraft, MIT
A steel mesh coated with a polymer containing a low concentration of a synthesized molecule called fluoroPOSS can repel water (dyed blue) but attracts the flammable fuel hexadecane (dyed red), allowing it to be used to separate the two substances. In different concentrations, fluoroPOSS can ...
This summer, a few dozen Boston-area high school students chose to spend their mornings toiling away with a variety of materials to create working marvels of engineering. Learn more: http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2011/video-edgerton-workshop-0805.
A panel of five MIT faculty experts in economics and business analyze the ongoing financial crisis in the U.S. and world markets at a special session Oct. 8. Full story
Toys-for-Tickets and Fill-a-Cruiser, are just two of the many ways MIT gives back to the community each year.
The MIT Glass Lab is administratively co-sponsored by the Materials Processing Center and the Department of Materials Science and Engineering.
Scenes from MIT's campus during the memorial ceremony for Officer Sean Collier on April 24, 2013.
You can check a person's vital signs — pulse, respiration and blood pressure — manually or by attaching sensors to the body. But a student in the Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology program is working in the MIT Media Lab on a system that coul
Berkmen discusses her research with Professors Utkan Demirci and Ed Boyden in developing 3-D brain tissue constructs.
Aeronautics and astronautics professor discusses how boredom plays a major role in a drone-operators ability to do their job.
The researchers discussed their robot, the Milli-Motein, which is not only one of the world's smallest robots, but if can also reconfigure itself in a matter of seconds
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