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MIT spinout Gradiant reduces companies’ water use and waste by billions of gallons each day

SeaPerch II, which has been in development at MIT Sea Grant since 2021, builds on the original program by adding robotics and elements of marine and c

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Tackling the energy revolution, one sector at a time

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March 27, 2025 LEGO Group COO discusses the production network that enables the builders of tomorrow

The LEGO Group COO Carsten Rasmussen on the importance of balancing cost efficiency, innovation, and sustainability in manufacturing.

March 27, 2025 "Biomedical lab in a box" empowers engineers in low- and middle-income countries

A team from MIT have created a "Biomed Lab in a Box" kit consisting of a hands-on course, exercises, and curriculum designed to address the issue of failing or obsolete equipment in low- and middle-income countries.

March 26, 2025 MIT Maritime Consortium sets sail

A new consortium, formalized in a signing ceremony held on campus last week, brings together industry leaders and collaborators from throughout MIT to address climate-harming emissions in the maritime shipping industry.

March 25, 2025 Basketball analytics investment is key to NBA wins and other successes

According to a new study by researchers from the MIT Sports Lab, there’s one member of a professional basketball team who consistently boosts their team’s performance: the data analyst.

March 25, 2025 Technology developed by MIT engineers makes pesticides stick to plant leaves

New technology developed by recent MIT alumni Vishnu Jayaprakash PhD ’22 and Sreedath Panat PhD ’23, graduate student Simon Rufer, and MechE Professor Kripa Varanasi makes pesticides stick to plant leaves.

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Learning Through Creation

Class 2.00a, Fundamentals of Engineering Design: Explore Space, Sea and Earth, empowers first-year students to build machines early in their academic careers at MIT.

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Next Generation Electronics

Jeehwan Kim, associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, is using his background in materials science to build a physical neural network and produce cheap semiconductor wafers – technologies that could help bring the artificial intelligence power of super computers to handheld devices.

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