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Droplets get a charge out of jumping

In a completely unexpected finding, MIT researchers have discovered that tiny water droplets that ... atmosphere, they say. The finding is reported in a paper in the journal Nature Communications written by MIT ... was an extension of previous work by the MIT team. That work showed that under certain conditions, ...

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Harder, better, faster, stronger

a Formula-style electric race car from the ground up. Every year. For students who are members of MIT Motorsports ... — a.k.a. the MIT Formula SAE (FSAE) team, originally founded in 2001 — that task determines how they spend ... shrug at. MIT's team passed all inspections, placed fourth in vehicle cost (spending the least ...

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Meet the Oystamaran

When Michelle Kornberg was about to graduate from MIT, she wanted to use her knowledge of ... MIT Sea Grant after graduating in May 2020, worked as a lab instructor for the next capstone class ... Electromechanical Robotic Systems), came out of conversations between Michael Triantafyllou, who is MIT’s Henry L. ...

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Powered by the sun

On a recent April afternoon, MIT sophomore Francis Wang drove out of the Edgerton Center’s Area 51 ... late nights in the student shop. Flux-on-road-in-Georgia 1024.jpg In January, Flux and the MIT Solar ... Electric Vehicle Team went on a road-testing trip in Georgia. Photo courtesy of the MIT Solar Electric ...

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Let it rain! New coatings make natural fabrics waterproof

researchers can find safe substitutes. Now, a team at MIT has come up with a promising solution: a coating ... Materials, in a paper by MIT professors Kripa Varanasi and Karen Gleason, former MIT postdoc Dan Soto, and ... ones most in use. What this MIT team did, Varanasi explains, is to combine two things: a shorter-chain ...

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Synthetic coating for the GI tract could deliver drugs or aid in digestion

By making use of enzymes found in the digestive tract, MIT engineers have devised a way to apply ... Giovanni Traverso, an MIT assistant professor of mechanical engineering, a gastroenterologist at Brigham ... Junwei Li, a postdoc at MIT’s Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, is the lead author of the ...

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Can your phone tell if a bridge is in good shape?

study involving MIT researchers shows that mobile phones placed in vehicles, equipped with special ... accelerometer data,” says Carlo Ratti, director of the MIT Sensable City Laboratory and co-author of a new paper ... MIT; and Ratti, who is also professor of the practice in MIT’s Department of Urban Studies and ...

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New model identifies drugs that shouldn’t be taken together

they can interfere with each other and should not be prescribed together. Researchers at MIT, Brigham ... predict until now,” says Giovanni Traverso, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT ... absorbability of new drugs by adding excipients that enhance their interactions with transporters. Former MIT ...

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Mechanical engineering with a twist: Pursuing a passion for robotics with customized major

MIT for her graduate studies. “There’s always more I can learn … and I want to keep learning.” Sunday, ... nonlinear controls. Shah returned to MechE as a graduate student this fall and is now working in Kim’s ... complex human problems. During her graduate studies, she expects to focus on tactile sensing work she ...

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Featured video: Pulling drinking water out of thin air

ever. The key, according to Evelyn Wang, the Gail E. Kendall Professor and department head for MIT ... air, even in arid conditions,” explains Wang. She and her team in MIT’s Device Research Laboratory have ... Mechanical Engineering Collaboration International enwang@mit.edu Horizontal Powered only by solar energy, ...

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How to create selective holes in graphene

of conventional membranes, as demonstrated earlier by a team of MIT researchers led by graduate ... Kong, the ITT Career Development Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering; MIT graduate students ... researchers at MIT, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and in Saudi Arabia succeeded in creating subnanoscale ...

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“For whosoever commands the sea commands the trade"

Dhawan Willeman, an MIT graduate student studying maritime shipping and innovation. “A ship is so huge ... Pollution Act in 1990. Willemann graduated with a B.S. in Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering from ... engineering background, she came to MIT to work with Professor Emeritus Henry Marcus, one of the most ...

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Megan Smith

Megan Smith received her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in mechanical engineering from MIT in ... (CTO) of the United States of America. A past member of the MIT Corporation, Smith has had a prolific ... familiar, but it gets the best results.” Smith will deliver the address at MIT’s 2015 Commencement ...

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Engineers enlist AI to help scale up advanced solar cell manufacturing

Department of Energy, the work was supported by a fellowship from the MIT Energy Initiative, the Graduate ... by Nicholas Rolston, Stanford, and edited by MIT News. Perovskite illustration by Christine Daniloff, ... MIT. The system, developed by researchers at MIT and Stanford University over the last few years, makes ...

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Artificial reef designed by MIT engineers could protect marine life, reduce storm damage

a graduate student at MIT who recently joined the group. Going forward, the team hopes to work with beach ... left increasingly vulnerable to frequent flooding and erosion. An MIT team is now hoping to fortify ... incoming waves by more than 95 percent. 1024_Architected-Reef-01-PRESS_0.jpg An MIT team is hoping to ...

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J-WAFS announces seven new seed grants

(J-WAFS) at MIT. J-WAFS is funding these and other projects through its fifth round of seed grants, ... providing over $1 million in funding to the MIT research community. These grants, which are funded ... competitively to MIT principal investigators (PIs) across all five schools at the Institute, exemplify the ...

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