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The MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering researches and teaches at the interfaces of ideas, where several disciplines such as physics, math, electronics, and computer science, and engineering intersect in the nimble hands of broadly trained MIT mechanical engineers.

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System can sterilize medical tools using solar heat

With campus as a test bed, climate action starts and continues at MIT

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Climate and sustainability classes expand at MIT

Cooling homes without warming the planet

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Vapor-collection technology saves water while clearing the air

Why boiling droplets can race across hot oily surfaces

A team led by Prof. Yang Shao-Horn shows a new universal descriptor for removal of nitrogen monoxide.

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