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Buoyancy

If objects fall towards the earth because gravity acts on them, then why doesn't a ship sink? Buoyancy explains why somethings float while others don't.

Calculate area in ArcMap

Part of the MIT Libraries video tutorial series. This video demonstrates how to calculate the area of polygons in ArcMap.

Cancer Deconstructed - 2013 Image Award Winner

Vasilena Gocheva explains the science behind her striking image, Cancer Deconstructed: Investigating the Role of Non-Cancerous Cells in a Lung Tumor.  Vasilena's image was selected as a winner of the 2013 Koch Institute Image Awards.  See all the winners ...

Carbon Dioxide and the Greenhouse Effect

What is the Greenhouse Effect and what role does carbon dioxide play?

Cell division and growth rate

MIT researchers answer a longstanding question in biology: How do cells know when to progress through the cell cycle?

Cellular Injections: 2013 Koch Institute Image Awards Winner

Alex Shalek explains the science behind his striking image, "Cellular Injections: Using Nanowires to Investigate the Causes of Leukemia." Alex's image was selected as a winner of the 2013 Koch Institute Image Awards.

Cloud Chamber

Subatomic particles such as cosmic ray muons, alpha particles, and high energy electrons are striking our bodies all the time. In the cloud chamber, these particles ionize air molecules, creating delicate cloud trails by condensing supersaturated alcohol vapor. This is similar to the way ...

Color Quantum-Dot Display

Startup company QD Vision demonstrates their full color quantum-dot display. This prototype is the first step towards a low-power, richly colorful display.

Commercializing Stretchable Silicon Electronics

Startup company MC10 is commercializing stretchable silicon for smart surgical tools and wearable sensors. One of its first products will be a surgical tool that can quickly map and treat electrical problems in the heart.

Connecting to lynda.mit.edu with iOS devices

Want to watch lynda.com courses on your iPad or iPhone? This video steps you through the process of installing the lynda.com app, configuring the connection to lynda.mit.edu and logging in. It also gives a quick tour of the interface.

Create a shapefile in ArcMap

Part of the MIT Libraries video tutorial series. This video demonstrates how to create a new shapefile in ArcMap.

Cutta Cutta (12x slower)

Cutta Cutta drinking Cat fanciers appreciate the gravity-defying grace and exquisite balance of their feline friends. But do they know that those traits extend even to the way cats lap milk? Researchers analyzed the way domestic and big cats lap and found that felines of all sizes take ...

Daily Patterns of Human Activities in the City

This is an animation visualizing the movement and activities (differentiated by nine colors in the legend) of the surveyed individuals in the Chicago metropolitan area for an average weekday in 2008.  Data source: Chicago Travel Tracker Household Travel Inventory ...

Data Transfer at Light Speed

At Intel Research Day, the company demonstrated some of its silicon photonics technology for the first time. The goal of this work is to speed data transfer by replacing today's electrical wiring with faster, more efficient fiber-optic connections.