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Growing up in the suburban town of Spring, Texas, just outside of Houston, Erik Ballesteros couldn’t help but be drawn in by the possibilities for humans in space.
It was the early 2000s, and NASA’s...
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Joseph Ntaimo ’23 places a plywood box on his lap. Inside, there’s a colorful array of wires and small computer chips.
The top of the box holds four white ridges, each draped with metal strings. When...
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For both research and medical purposes, researchers have spent decades pushing the limits of microscopy to produce ever deeper and sharper images of brain activity, not only in the cortex but also in...
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The MIT Sailing Pavilion hosted an altogether different marine vessel recently: a prototype of a solar electric boat developed by James Worden ’89, the founder of the MIT Solar Electric Vehicle Team...
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Materials research thrives across MIT, spanning disciplines and departments. Recent breakthroughs include strategies for securing sustainable supplies of nickel — critical to clean-energy...
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MIT researchers have developed a reconfigurable antenna that dynamically adjusts its frequency range by changing its physical shape, making it more versatile for communications and sensing than...
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Using artificial intelligence, MIT researchers have come up with a new way to design nanoparticles that can more efficiently deliver RNA vaccines and other types of RNA therapies.
After training a...
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Members of the MechE community may be familiar with Lock the Quill, a podcast that features “interviews and antics” from the Pappalardo Lab, aka “the most wicked lab on campus,” but did you know...
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“Manufacturing is the engine of society, and it is the backbone of robust, resilient economies,” says John Hart, head of MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering (MechE) and faculty co-director of...
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As director of MIT’s Laboratory for Energy and Microsystems Innovation (LEMI), Cullen Buie has applied his expertise in microfluidics, electrochemistry, and electrokinetics to applications ranging...
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If you’ve urgently ordered a package from Amazon — and exhaled when it arrived on your doorstep hours later — you likely have three graduates of the MIT Leaders for Global Operations (LGO) program to...
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Salt creeping, a phenomenon that occurs in both natural and industrial processes, describes the collection and migration of salt crystals from evaporating solutions onto surfaces. Once they start...
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On Thursday, June 5, 11 individuals and four teams were awarded MIT Excellence Awards — the highest awards for staff at the Institute. Cheers from colleagues holding brightly colored signs and...
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In an office at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), a soft robotic hand carefully curls its fingers to grasp a small object. The intriguing part isn’t the...
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Inspired by a hitchhiking fish that uses a specialized suction organ to latch onto sharks and other marine animals, researchers from MIT and other institutions have designed a mechanical adhesive...
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The ocean absorbs about a quarter of carbon dioxide emissions in the atmosphere. When this carbon dioxide dissolves in seawater, it results in ocean acidification, affecting many ocean species like...
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The summer months and Independent Activities Period (IAP) are both prime time for MIT students to engage in learning and research outside of the regular academic year. Summer provides a longer...
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The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Board of Governors has elected Professor John H. Lienhard V as an Honorary Member. The prestigious recognition is awarded for a lifetime of...
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Scientists are striving to discover new semiconductor materials that could boost the efficiency of solar cells and other electronics. But the pace of innovation is bottlenecked by the speed at which...
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The grandson of Italian immigrants, Stephen P. DeFalco ’83, SM ’88 was part of the first generation in his family to go to college. Attending MIT was a life-changing experience, he says, and that’s...