Welding... with Class
Welding... with Class
Welding is an important industrial process, but do you know how it works?
Welcome MIT Sloan MFin Students
Welcome MIT Sloan MFin Students
David Schmittlein, John C Head III Dean, Professor of Marketing, welcomes the MIT Sloan MFin students to the Program. For more information about the MFin program visit http://mitsloan.mit.edu/mfin/
Water-repellent surfaces that last
Water-repellent surfaces that last
Ceramic forms of hydrophobic materials could be far more durable than existing coatings or surface treatments.
A one-trillion-frames-per-second camera?
Visualizing video at the speed of light -- one trillion frames per second
MIT Media Lab researchers have created a new imaging system that can acquire visual data at a rate of one trillion frames per second. That's fast enough to produce a slow-motion video of light traveling through objects.
Understanding Chemotherapeutic Drug Targets
Understanding Chemotherapeutic Drug Targets
Dr. Nozomi Ando conducts research on a protein that is essential for DNA synthesis, repair and replication. She explains how this protein is in equilibrium between an active and an inactive form, and how discovering strategies to lock the protein in the inactive ...
Turn of the Earth
Turn of the Earth
How to build a Foucault Pendulum to prove that the Earth is rotating.
Treating Diseases by Using RNAi Technology
Treating Diseases by Using RNAi Technology
RNA interference (RNAi) is a process in which small pieces of silencing RNA (siRNA) bind to cellular RNA, thereby shutting down the production of the encoded protein.
Tracking Creeping Plates from Space
Tracking Creeping Plates from Space
Mike Floyd, a postdoc in the Department of Earth, Atmopheric, and Planetary Sciences at MIT, uses GPS to track the vanishingly slow, yet inexorable movement of the tectonic plates underlying the Caucasus. In this video he shares work he and co-workers recently published showing ...
TIMTalks: Introduction from Chancellor Eric Grimson
TIMTalks: Opening Remarks by Chancellor Eric Grimson
TIMtalks, or "Think. Inspire. Motivate." talks, was envisioned as a platform to promote students who have invented, implemented, succeeded, and even failed at a wide range of ideas, both large and small.
TIMTalks: Omar Abudayyeh
TIMTalks: Omar Abudayyeh — Drugging the Undruggable: The Road Not Taken
TIMtalks, or "Think. Inspire. Motivate." talks, was envisioned as a platform to promote students who have invented, implemented, succeeded, and even failed at a wide range of ideas, both large and small.
TIMTalks: Noam Angrist
TIMTalks: Noam Angrist — Do Now
TIMtalks, or "Think. Inspire. Motivate." talks, was envisioned as a platform to promote students who have invented, implemented, succeeded, and even failed at a wide range of ideas, both large and small.
TIMTalks: Maggie Lloyd
TIMTalks: Maggie Lloyd — comMITment
TIMtalks, or "Think. Inspire. Motivate." talks, was envisioned as a platform to promote students who have invented, implemented, succeeded, and even failed at a wide range of ideas, both large and small.
TIMTalks: Kanjun Qiu
TIMTalks: Kanjun Qiu — Expanding the Culture of Computing
TIMtalks, or "Think. Inspire. Motivate." talks, was envisioned as a platform to promote students who have invented, implemented, succeeded, and even failed at a wide range of ideas, both large and small.
TIMTalks: Closing remarks
TIMTalks: Closing Remarks
TIMtalks, or "Think. Inspire. Motivate." talks, was envisioned as a platform to promote students who have invented, implemented, succeeded, and even failed at a wide range of ideas, both large and small.
TIMTalks: Anjali Thakkar
TIMTalks: Anjali Thakkar — Conquering the Imposter Syndrome: The ...
TIMtalks, or "Think. Inspire. Motivate." talks, was envisioned as a platform to promote students who have invented, implemented, succeeded, and even failed at a wide range of ideas, both large and small.
Why do leaves change color?
Time for Me to Leaf: Tree Chlorophyll Chromatography
Do this experiment to learn about different pigments in leaves.
There's Light at the End of the Tunnel
There's Light at the End of the Tunnel
A panel of recent MIT alumni across academia, industry, consulting, and entrepreneurial careers speak about how they planned and accomplished graduation (convincing advisor, committee); how their career paths post-graduation have changed since MIT (work style, pace, perks, drawbacks); and what ...
The Physics of Unicycling
The Physics of Unicycling
How does anyone balance on a unicycle? Just keep pedaling!