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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 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 ...
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 look at MIT's 145th Commencement from a different perspective.
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.
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.
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
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
MIT scientists have used Archimedes' principle to solve a vexing puzzle — how to measure the density of a single cell.
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.
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 ...
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.
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
Nick Fang says predicting how hydrogels transform could help in the design of more complex and effective drug-delivery systems.
A team of researchers at MIT has discovered a way to harness the wrinkling process in a controlled and orderly way.
MIT researchers have developed new software that amplifies variations in successive frames of video that are imperceptible to the naked eye.
MIT mechanical engineering graduate student Nenad Miljkovic on condensation, nanodroplet formation, and new nanopatterned surfaces.
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Scientists at MIT and the University of Pennsylvania are taking more than inspiration from nature — they’re taking ingredients.
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