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The exhibition features works by six artists from five countries and represents artistic and technical advancements in the field of display holography.
MIT Media Lab researchers Steven Keating and Neri Oxman demonstrate some of their work around 3-D printing.
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A device that started out as a class project last fall is moving rapidly toward becoming a commercial product that could make the lives of millions of visually impaired people a bit easier. Karina Pikhart '09 and classmates designed a machine to make braille labels.
Now in its 75th year, we take a look back how the Hobby Shop began, and how it evolved to what it is today.
MIT researchers are using graphene, a one-atom-thick form of the element carbon, in the quest to make the earth's oceans a viable source of potable water.
Using a stroboscopic imaging system developed in MIT Professor Dennis Freeman's lab, Freeman's team obtained this video of wave motion along the ear's tectorial membrane (at top, the actual video showing nanometer-scale displacements, and at bottom, the same video, motion magnified (Liu et ...
A team of MIT students has been working on testing a rapid-recharging system that could help to change public perceptions about electric vehicles and their practicality. They have already done extensive testing of the system with an individual battery cell and with a motorcycle they converted ...
This time lapse video shows development of a normal neuron (left) and a mutated neuron that does not express the Ena/VASP proteins. Cultured for two days, the normal one extends an axon and many dendrites, while the mutated neuron fails to make such extensions. Full ...
New Media Lab building, which opened in March 2010, is designed to foster collaboration, sharing, communication and experimentation.
MIT researchers at the David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research have developed a new material that changes its shape after absorbing water vapor.
Movie showing the visual responses of the two cells plotted in text Fig. 1A-B. The movie shows the response to three repetitions of grating presentation, indicated in the bottom left corner. The two cells analyzed in text Fig 1B are circled for reference. Note the ...
MIT researchers describe a wearable sensor system that automatically creates a digital map of the environment through which the wearer is moving.
Bryan Reimer discusses the MIT AgeLab's work on a car that can park itself.
New algorithms allow an autonomous robotic plane to dodge obstacles in a subterranean parking garage, without the use of GPS.
The movement of B cells that carry magnetic nanoparticles in tiny polymer "backpacks" can be controlled by a magnetic field.
Boston television journalist Liz Walker interviews President Hockfield about life at MIT for "Better Living with Liz Walker."
Bill Gates, philanthropist and retired co-founder of Microsoft Corp., urged MIT students on April 21, 2010 to focus their talent and energy on tackling the world's biggest challenges, including global health, poverty and education.
The Weinberg lab is known for its discoveries of the first human oncogene — the ras oncogene that causes normal cells to form tumors, and the isolation of the first known tumor suppressor gene — the Rb gene.
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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MIT biologists are deeply engaged in both fundamental research and its applications. The department promotes a highly collaborative environment that ...
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