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Meet the women shaping science and engineering in Saudi Arabia
Since 2012, a handful of Saudi Arabia’s top scientists and engineers have arrived on MIT’s campus ... research at MIT. Each fellow is paired with an MIT faculty for a research project and exposed to a number ... of professional development opportunities. MIT-Khaldun-Fellowship-02-1024.jpg In July, current and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/meet-women-shaping-science-and-engineering-saudi-arabiaA champion of renewable energy
MIT Energy Initiative program called Solar Spring Break, which had partnered with Homeboy Industries, ... real.” MIT-Guettler-Darya-01-PRESS-1024.jpg MIT senior Darya Guettler advocates for climate action and ... MIT’s campus. Credits: Adam Glanzman Guettler’s fascination with renewable energy began back in high ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/champion-renewable-energyBursting bubbles launch bacteria from water to air
ubiquitous, indoors and out. A new MIT study shows how bubbles contaminated with bacteria can act as tiny ... can emit hundreds of droplets. MIT-Bacteria-Bubbles-1024.jpg MIT researchers have found that ... Transmission Laboratory. Bourouiba’s co-author on the paper is graduate student Stephane Poulain. Something in ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/bursting-bubbles-launch-bacteria-water-airTaking a leap in bioinspired robotics
in the next five to 10 years, says Sangbae Kim, associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT ... closing valves. MIT-SangbaeKim-A1-1024.jpg “Say there are toxic gases leaking in a building, and you need ... to fuse the two main projects in his lab: the MIT Cheetah, a four-legged, 70-pound robot that runs ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/taking-leap-bioinspired-roboticsMirrored chip could enable handheld dark-field microscopes
microorganisms in the field. “Imagine you’re a marine biologist,” says Cecile Chazot, a graduate student in MIT ... background. Now, engineers at MIT have developed a small, mirrored chip that helps to produce dark-field ... objects. A1-MIT-Dark-Mirror-Frankel-1024.jpg Simple chip powered by quantum dots allows standard ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mirrored-chip-could-enable-handheld-dark-field-microscopesTurning history of science into a comic adventure
that goal in mind, one MIT team recently transformed themselves into time-traveling comic book ... MIT-Disease-Comics-01-press_0.jpg A new comic takes readers through a history of infectious disease discoveries. “A Paradigm Shift ... in Infectious Disease” follows MIT Associate Professor Lydia Bourouiba and artist Argha Manna, who ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/turning-history-science-comic-adventureStartup aims to flush away the problem of icky toilet seats
seat. Now, an MIT alumni-founded startup is working to flush away that problem forever. ... MIT-Cleana-01-press_0.jpg MIT has purchased several of Cleana’s self-raising sensations for use on campus. Image: Courtesy ... of Cleana; edited by MIT News Cleana, co-founded by CTO Richard Li SM '24, has developed an ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/startup-aims-flush-away-problem-icky-toilet-seatsThe environmental toll of disposable masks
That toll could be dramatically cut by adopting reusable masks, according to a new study from MIT that ... greatest cost savings, but also significant reduction in waste,” says Giovanni Traverso, an MIT assistant ... strongly consider and minimize the potential negative impact on the environment.” MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/environmental-toll-disposable-masks3D printing tiny parts for big impact
parts that power our world. Enter Boston Micro Fabrication (BMF). The company was co-founded by MIT ... functions. MIT-BMF-Technologies-1024.jpg Boston Micro Fabrication’s machines use a technology co-developed by ... MIT Professor Nicholas Fang to print millimeter-sized products with details at the micron scale. Image ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/3d-printing-tiny-parts-big-impactThe Secret of Wrinkling, Folding, and Creasing
a fundamental level by researchers at MIT. The underlying process is the same in all of these cases: Layers of ... resulting texture. MIT-Rules-Wrinkles- 1024.jpg Why do layered materials form one kind of wrinkly pattern or ... another? MIT associate professor of mechanical engineering Xuanhe Zhao and postdoc Qiming Wang describe ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/secret-wrinkling-folding-and-creasingMonthly birth control pill could replace daily doses
pregnant each year. MIT-Monthly-Contraceptive-1024.jpg After being swallowed, the capsule unfolds and ... digestive tract. Credit: Lyndra Therapeutics MIT researchers are now developing an oral contraceptive that ... says Robert Langer, the David H. Koch Institute Professor at MIT. The new contraceptive is contained ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/monthly-birth-control-pill-could-replace-daily-dosesSimple, solar-powered water desalination
A completely passive solar-powered desalination system developed by researchers at MIT and in ... efficient, low-cost water source. MIT-Portable-Desalination-1024.jpg Tests on an MIT building rooftop showed ... appearing today in the journal Energy and Environmental Science, authored by MIT doctoral students Lenan ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/simple-solar-powered-water-desalinationOur gut-brain connection
different from humans’. To help researchers better understand the gut-brain axis, MIT researchers have ... MIT-GutBrain-Axis-1024.jpg MIT researchers have developed an “organs-on-a-chip” system that replicates interactions between ... the brain, liver, and colon. Image: Courtesy of the researchers. Photo by Martin Trapecar, MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/our-gut-brain-connectionCould we recycle plastic bags into fabrics of the future?
adoption as a wearable textile. Now, MIT engineers have spun polyethylene into fibers and yarns designed to ... more quickly than common textiles such as cotton, nylon, and polyester. MIT-PE-Fabrics-1024.jpg MIT ... a research scientist in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. Boriskina and her colleagues have ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/could-we-recycle-plastic-bags-fabrics-futureScientists Tune Polymer Material’s Transparency
through. Now MIT scientists have come up with a theory to predict exactly how much light is transmitted ... inflated like a balloon. MIT-Color-Composites-1024.jpg Three colors of PDMS — a widely used rubbery, ... shows the PDMS material before being inflated. The bottom row shows the PDMS inflated, revealing the MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/scientists-tune-polymer-material%E2%80%99s-transparencyIngestible capsule can be controlled wirelessly
Researchers at MIT, Draper, and Brigham and Women’s Hospital have designed an ingestible capsule ... transmitting information and responding to instructions from a user’s smartphone. MIT-Wireless-Pill 1024.jpg ... MIT researchers have designed an ingestible sensor that can lodge in the stomach for a few weeks and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/ingestible-capsule-can-be-controlled-wirelessly“Nanofiber yarn” makes for stretchy, protective artificial tissue
heal. Now MIT engineers have come up with a tissue engineering design that may enable flexible range of ... motion in injured tendons and muscles during healing. MIT-Nano-Yarn-1024.jpg MIT engineers have designed ... assistant professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. “With this nanofiber yarn, the hope is, you won’t have ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/%E2%80%9Cnanofiber-yarn%E2%80%9D-makes-stretchy-protective-artificial-tissueHow to speed up the discovery of new solar cell materials
painstaking. MIT-AI-Solar-PRESS 1024.jpg Diagram depicts the sequence of steps used in the new streamlined ... Now, a team of researchers at MIT and several other institutions has accelerated the process of ... Joule, in a paper by MIT research scientist Shijing Sun, professor of mechanical engineering Tonio ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-speed-discovery-new-solar-cell-materialsTissue model reveals role of blood-brain barrier in Alzheimer’s
MIT-Blood-Brain-Barrier-1024.jpg The blood-brain barrier — the normally tight border that prevents harmful molecules in the ... Alzheimer’s patients. Image: Christine Daniloff, MIT MIT engineers have now developed a tissue model that ... MIT. The researchers also used the tissue model to show that a drug that restores the blood-brain ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/tissue-model-reveals-role-blood-brain-barrier-alzheimer%E2%80%99sHoming in on longer-lasting perovskite solar cells
used for virtually all commercial solar panels. Now, an international interdisciplinary team led by MIT ... MIT-Better-Perovskite-1024.jpg Researchers have developed a new way to test long-lasting perovskite formulations that could be ... Tiihonen The findings appear in the journal Matter, in a paper by MIT postdoc Shijing Sun, MIT professors, ...
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