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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 paper solar cell circuit is shown powering an LCD clock when illuminated. The entire integrated paper photovoltaic is then fed through a roll-to-roll office laser-jet printer. The resulting ink spells MIT on the device side of the paper array, which then continues to power the LCD clock. The ...
A paper solar cell circuit is dynamically folded and unfolded while the voltage is simultaneously measured on the meter. The paper photovoltaic is illuminated from below with simulated solar illumination.
MIT student and co-founder of the MIT Rubik's Cube Club Tim Reynolds solves four cubes in 1:10.
MIT math instructors have developed a tool to help educators get to 'best practices' and preserve them for posterity.
MIT scientists have used Archimedes' principle to solve a vexing puzzle — how to measure the density of a single cell.
A look at MIT's 145th Commencement from a different perspective.
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 ...
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 ...
Students from MIT's Biodiesel team organized the Green Grease project to help garbage pickers in Brazil save money and be more environmentally friendly by retrofitting their transport vehicles. In summer 2010, the team traveled to Sao Paulo, Brazil
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 — ...
At the Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers’ (SPIE) Practical Holography conference in San Francisco the weekend of Jan. 23, members of Michael Bove’s Object-Based Media Group presented a new system that can capture visual information using off-the-shelf electronics, send it ...
This video from a high-speed camera shows a droplet being deposited on a superhydrophobic surface, just before it separates from the dropper. At the moment of separation, ripples move down through the droplet, showing the deceleration caused by impact with the surface, which causes a brief ...
The researchers needed to be able to change a cat's lapping speed in order to test their theory. So they developed a robotic version of a cat's tongue -- a mechanical column with a 1-inch glass disk at the tip. This device allowed the researchers to study the liquid column for different ...
Cutta Cutta drinking Cat fanciers appreciate the gravity-defying grace and exquisite balance of their feline friends. But do they know that those traits extend even to the way cats lap milk? Researchers analyzed the way domestic and big cats lap and found that felines of all sizes take ...
Bryan Reimer discusses the MIT AgeLab's work on a car that can park itself.
David Simchi-Levi, a professor in MIT's Engineering Systems Division and Department of Civil Engineering, discusses lowering greenhouse emissions generated by humans.
MIT professor Karen K. Gleason explains how graduate student Miles Barr folds a solar cell into a paper airplane.
Since its launch in 1999, the Chandra X-ray Observatory has been NASA's flagship mission for X-ray astronomy, taking its place in the fleet of "Great Observatories." Claude Canizares, MIT's Vice President for Research and Associate Provost and Bruno Rossi Professor of ...
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