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On April 18, the World Health Organization (WHO) released new guidance on airborne disease transmission that seeks to create a consensus around the terminology used to describe the transmission of...
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Highly advanced Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) language models, like ChatGPT, use deep machine learning algorithms to generate human-like, conversational text responses to prompts. The...
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Fueled by curiosity and a love of science, second-year graduate student Adi Mehrotra ’22 is working on sustainable solutions in vehicle design, including the design for a hydrogen-powered motorcycle...
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“This is a golden age of climate tech innovation,” says Vijay Vaitheeswaran ’90, global energy and climate innovation editor for The Economist. “Dealing with climate change and energy needs in a...
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To assess a community’s risk of extreme weather, policymakers rely first on global climate models that can be run decades, and even centuries, forward in time, but only at a coarse resolution. These...
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As a mechanical engineer at MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Phillip Daniel ’13, SM ’15, PhD ’22, conducts research for the US Department of Defense that involves exploring the deepest oceans and the farthest...
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In agriculture today, robots and drones can monitor fields, temperature and moisture sensors can be automated to meet crop needs, and a host of other systems and devices make farms more efficient,...
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Big ideas took the stage on Monday morning, ahead of the inauguration of MIT’s 18th president, Sally Kornbluth. As final preparations were underway on Killian Court for the afternoon’s ceremonies,...
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No two hearts beat alike. The size and shape of the the heart can vary from one person to the next. These differences can be particularly pronounced for people living with heart disease, as their...
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U.S. Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering Heidi Shyu serves as the Department of Defense’s chief technology officer. In a recent talk at MIT, she spoke about the DoD’s initiatives...
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Since 1901, MIT has offered a graduate program unlike any other at the Institute. The Naval Construction and Engineering program in the Department of Mechanical Engineering educates active duty...
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On a Monday evening early each December, Kresge Auditorium transforms into something resembling a pep rally. The sold-out crowd cheers loudly, waving colorful pom poms in the air as confetti rains...
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Want to know if the Golden Gate Bridge is holding up well? There could be an app for that.
A new study involving MIT researchers shows that mobile phones placed in vehicles, equipped with special...
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There are currently few good treatment options for glioblastoma, an aggressive type of brain cancer with a high fatality rate. One reason that the disease is so difficult to treat is that most...
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The Abdul Latif Jameel Water and Food Systems Lab (J-WAFS) at MIT has awarded eight MIT principal investigators with 2022 J-WAFS seed grants. The grants support innovative MIT research that has the...
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Engineers at MIT and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) have designed a heat engine with no moving parts. Their new demonstrations show that it converts heat to electricity with over 40...
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Here’s the scenario: A driver falls asleep at the wheel. But their car is equipped with a dashboard camera that detects the driver’s eye condition, activating a safety system that promptly guides the...
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As with most everything in the world, football looked very different in 2020. As the Covid-19 pandemic unfolded, many National Football League (NFL) games were played in empty stadiums, while other...
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It depends exactly where and how the battery is made—but when it comes to clean technologies like electric cars and solar power, even the dirtiest batteries emit less CO2 than using no battery at all...
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Born and raised amid the natural beauty of the Dominican Republic, Andrés Bisonó León feels a deep motivation to help solve a problem that has been threatening the Caribbean island nation’s tourism...