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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. The new vehicle, Eleanor, is equipped with wireless links so lead and chase vehicles will be able to monitor every aspect of the cars electrical ...
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--one team members believe has the potential to revolutionize global energy production. More infoVideo / Patrick Gillooly, MIT
Two students sent a camera-dangling balloon to near space and took stunning photography of Earth: all for $150.
On Nov. 8, students from MIT helped construct a home for a family in need in Bedford, Mass. The site is part of a project by the Habitat for Humanity of Greater Lowell (HFHGL) that includes nearly three acres of land and a historic farmhouse located at 130 North Road ...
MIT civil and environmental engineering team practices their steel bridge construction sequence on the MIT Student Center steps on May 5, 2008. MoreVideographer: Stephen Rudolph
A new semiautonomous driver system can take the wheel to keep drivers safe.
This video illustrates how referral between participants of the MIT team spread on the continental U.S. before and during the DARPA challenge. Each white line represents a referral from an existing participant's location of the MIT team to the the location of a new team participant. ~36 hours ...
MIT Professor Charles Stewart discusses how race played a roll in the election of Barack Obama, but in a way you might not expect. Read more about it here: http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2009/racialpolarization-0120.html
MIT Professor Charles Stewart discusses how race played a roll in the election of Barack Obama, but in a way you might not expect.
Karp discusses his team's new medical adhesive that is safe enough for an infant's delicate skin.
Shah discussed how he uses his machine-learning algorithm to predict trends hours in advance of recognition by Twitter.
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
Aeronautics and astronautics professor discusses how boredom plays a major role in a drone-operators ability to do their job.
Berkmen discusses her research with Professors Utkan Demirci and Ed Boyden in developing 3-D brain tissue constructs.
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
Scenes from MIT's campus during the memorial ceremony for Officer Sean Collier on April 24, 2013.
The MIT Glass Lab is administratively co-sponsored by the Materials Processing Center and the Department of Materials Science and Engineering.
Toys-for-Tickets and Fill-a-Cruiser, are just two of the many ways MIT gives back to the community each year.
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
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