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This video shows underground methane gas invading fine-grain sediment (shown in yellow) by creating a fracture, as predicted by Jain and Juanes' grain scale model. Blue circles represent pore spaces where the gas has invaded. The maroon lines indicate compressive forces between sediment ...
A team of MIT researchers has built a school of swimming robo-fish designed to more easily maneuver into areas where traditional underwater autonomous vehicles can't go. For more information, read the full story at http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2009/robo-fish-0824.html
MIT's community gardens, a pilot program spearheaded by MIT Police Sgt. Cheryl Vossmer and Libraries Administrative Assistant and Public Service Support Associate Ryan Gray, has taken bloom on the roof of the West Garage and along the side of the Albany Street garage. 32 community members ...
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 ...
Borrowing from Mother Nature, a team of MIT researchers has built a school of swimming robo-fish that slip through the water just as gracefully as the real thing, if not quite as fast. Mechanical engineers Kamal Youcef-Toumi and Pablo Valdivia y Alvarado have designed the sleek robotic fish to ...
A demonstration of the process by which a camera going out of focus can display the contents of a Bokode visual tag.
We show a new camera based interaction solution where an ordinary camera can detect small optical tags from a relatively large distance. Current optical tags, such as barcodes, must be read within a short range and the codes occupy valuable physical space on products. ...
Computer model developed by Taylor Perron and colleagues shows how evenly-spaced ridges and valleys form over time as a result of erosion and the slumping of soil.
C. elegans responding to a touch stimulus
In this video, a surface (pink) is compressed until the orange tape attached to it delaminates, forming blisters. Video courtesy / Pedro Reis.
Simulation of the orbit of the ultracool subdwarf LSR 1610-0040 around the Milky Way, as visualized using Digital Universe.
A team of MIT mathematicians has developed a model that describes how and under what conditions traffic jams form, which could help road designers minimize the odds of their formation.
Neurons in the visual cortex (area V4) encode the visual scene, and neurons in the FEF portion of prefrontal cortex control the focus of attention. When attention (cone and circle) is directed to the red book, neurons in FEF and V4 (represented by red triangles) start firing rhythmically, and ...
MIT biology professor Frank Gertler discusses the Mena protein, and a test developed with two colleagues that could help doctors precisely identify which breast cancer patients should receive aggressive therapy.
A prototype of what is being touted as the worlds first practical flying car takes to the air for the first time.
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.
In this video, flaps of a polymer sheet are folded into a corner of a cube. An external magnetic field interacts with a current flowing through wires embedded in the sheet, causing the sheets to fold up.
The testing of a prototype plasma rocket being developed at MIT that is much smaller than other rockets of its kind.
The testing of a prototype plasma rocket being developed at MIT that is much smaller than other rockets of its kind.
MIT's Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences stands at the nexus of neuroscience, biology and psychology. We combine these disciplines to study ...
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