Magnetically separating oil and water
Cleaning up oil spills with magnets
MIT researchers have developed a new technique for magnetically separating oil and water that could be used to clean up spills.
Climbing the Career Ladder: Gender and the Workplace
Climbing the Career Ladder: Gender and the Workplace
A panel discussion with speakers from fields where women are typically under-represented, including Aditi Garg (Tesla Motors), Pamela Benkert (Philips Healthcare), Hilda Tang (Oliver Wyman), and Leah Buechley (MIT). The speakers share their career paths and experiences ...
Colorful Chemistry of Acids and Bases
Colorful Chemistry of Acids and Bases
Test the acidity of household products using something you can find in the supermarket: purple cabbage.
Daniel Casey: Exploring a "little star" on Earth
Daniel Casey: Exploring a "little star" on Earth
Daniel CASEY : Exploring a "little star" on Earth PhD Candidate Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Darcy Wanger's Personal Story
Darcy Wanger's Personal Story
Darcy describes her realization that science is not something "done — in the past tense" by people long ago, but rather an exciting pursuit that requires social interactions to solve current real-world questions.
Deciphering the Dariv
Deciphering the Dariv
Claire Bucholz, a Ph.D. candidate in the MIT-WHOI Joint Program, studies rocks in an ancient subduction zone now lying in the heart of land-locked Mongolia. In particular, she has spent the last two summers, building an understanding of a unique island arc-related alkaline fractionation ...
Delivering large molecules to cells through tiny holes in ...
Delivering large molecules to cells through tiny holes in membranes
Researchers from MIT have now found a safe and efficient way to get large molecules through the cell membrane, by squeezing the cells through a narrow constriction that opens up tiny, temporary holes in the membrane.
Detecting Explosives to Save Lives in War Zone
Detecting Explosives to Save Lives in War Zone
Stefanie Sydlik explains how her research on designing sensors for explosives depends on the principles of VSEPR (valence shell electron pair repulsion) theory.
Developing Future Leaders
Developing Future Leaders
Dr. Woodie C Flowers, SM '68, ME '71, PhD '73, Pappalardo Professor of Mechanical Engineering; MacVicar Faculty Fellow; Timothy Heidel, '05, MNG '06, Undergraduate, Electrical Engineering ('06) ; Elizbeth Basha, SM '05, Graduate Student, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science ('09) ; Anat ...
Diamonds are a nuclear engineer’s best friend
Diamonds are a nuclear engineer’s best friend: Clarice Aiello, 2012 NSE ...
Graduate student Clarice Aiello presents her research: Diamonds are a nuclear engineer’s best friend: sensing tiny magnetic fields with a single spin in diamond.
Distinguished Lecture: Professor Moniz, Director, MIT ...
Distinguished Lecture: Professor Moniz, Director, MIT Energy Initiative
Ernest J. Moniz is the Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Physics and Engineering Systems, Director of the Energy Initiative, and the Director of the Laboratory for Energy and the Environment. Professor Moniz served as U.S. Under Secretary of Energy from 1997 to 2001 and ...
Drawing carbon nanotubes on paper
Drawing carbon nanotubes on paper
MIT postdoc Katherine Mirica has designed a new type of pencil lead in which graphite is replaced with a compressed powder of carbon nanotubes.
Earth's Tilt 1: The Reason for the Seasons
Earth's Tilt 1: The Reason for the Seasons
How can it be summer in North America and winter in Australia at the same time?! MIT+K12 explains the seasons.License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA More information at http://k12videos.mit.edu/terms-conditions
Electives
Electives
MIT EMBA program director Jonathan Lehrich describes the broad spectrum of electives available in the MIT Executive MBA.
Energy 101: Biofuels
Energy 101: Biofuels
In this short video, Dr. Mark Mba Wright gives a broad overview of biofuels: from what they are to their technological requirements and challenges.
Engineering Enzyme Pathways for Biofuel Development
Engineering Enzyme Pathways for Biofuel Development
Jingnan Lu's research focuses on converting carbon dioxide, an environmental pollutant, into biofuel. Here she explains how she engineers a carbon-storing microorganism into a biofuel production pathway.