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Albatross robot takes flight
MIT engineers have designed a robotic glider that can skim along the water’s surface, riding the ... MIT-Albatross-Robot-1024.jpg An albatross glider, designed by MIT engineers, skims the Charles River. Photo: Gabriel Bousquet ... in MIT’s Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, who led the design of the robot as part of his ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/albatross-robot-takes-flightSuperUROP: Showcasing students' research work in progress
If one overarching message emerged from the 2018 SuperUROP Showcase, it was this: MIT ... SuperUROP-2018-poster-screens-MIT-1024.jpg About 130 undergraduates discussed the progress of their yearlong research projects at during the ... billion technology company that was born at MIT. Leighton’s talk, “The Akamai Story: From Theory to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/superurop-showcasing-students-research-work-progressInstrument may enable mail-in testing to detect heavy metals in water
transporting them to distant laboratories for analysis. To simplify the monitoring process, MIT researchers ... easily dropped in the mail and shipped to a laboratory for further analysis. MIT ... -Dry-Testing-01-1024.jpg MIT graduate student Emily Hanhauser demonstrates a new device that may simplify the logistics of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/instrument-may-enable-mail-testing-detect-heavy-metals-waterHoming 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, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/homing-longer-lasting-perovskite-solar-cellsBio-inspired, blood-repelling tissue glue could seal wounds quickly
Inspired by the sticky substance that barnacles use to cling to rocks, MIT engineers have designed ... of mechanical engineering and civil and environmental engineering at MIT and one of the senior ... Nature Biomedical Engineering. MIT Research Scientist Hyunwoo Yuk and postdoc Jingjing Wu are the lead ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/bio-inspired-blood-repelling-tissue-glue-could-seal-wounds-quicklySolid, liquid, or gas? Technique quickly identifies physical state of tissues and tumors
MIT_Cell-Fingerprints-01-PRESS_0.jpeg MIT researchers have developed a way to decode images of cells to determine whether a tissue is ... track various cancers. Photo credit: Anne Weston, Francis Crick Institute, edited by MIT News Now, ... researchers at MIT have found that the way in which a tissue’s cells are arranged can serve as a fingerprint ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/solid-liquid-or-gas-technique-quickly-identifies-physical-state-tissues-and-tumorsEngineers develop surgical “duct tape” as an alternative to sutures
in many structural materials. MIT engineers have now developed a kind of surgical duct tape ... scientist in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. “Surgeons could use it as they use duct tape in the ... journal Science Translational Medicine. Other co-authors include MIT postdoc and lead author Jingjing Wu; ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/engineers-develop-surgical-%E2%80%9Cduct-tape%E2%80%9D-alternative-suturesStudy suggests energy-efficient route to capturing and converting CO2
In the race to draw down greenhouse gas emissions around the world, scientists at MIT are looking ... run. The MIT team is looking to combine the two processes into one integrated and far more ... from concentrated, industrial sources. MIT-Co2Capture-01-press_1024.jpg Researchers uncovered how ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/study-suggests-energy-efficient-route-capturing-and-converting-co2Engineers develop a vibrating, ingestible capsule that might help treat obesity
MIT-Obesity-Treatment-01-PRESS_0.gif MIT engineers have now come up with a new way to take advantage of that phenomenon, using an ... control their appetite, it could be taken before each meal,” says Shriya Srinivasan PhD ’20, a former MIT ... mechanical engineering at MIT and a gastroenterologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, is the senior author ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/engineers-develop-vibrating-ingestible-capsule-might-help-treat-obesityOverlooked cells might explain the human brain’s huge storage capacity
cognitive functions. MIT researchers have now put forth a new hypothesis for how astrocytes might contribute ... MIT-AstroCyteMemory-01-press_1024x768.jpg MIT researchers have a new hypothesis for how brain cells called astrocytes might contribute to ... the brain’s massive storage capacity. Image: MIT News “Originally, astrocytes were believed to just ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/overlooked-cells-might-explain-human-brain%E2%80%99s-huge-storage-capacityHave a damaged painting? Restore it in just hours with an AI-generated “mask”
a mechanical engineering graduate student at MIT, presents a new method he’s developed to physically apply ... a digital restoration directly onto an original painting. MIT ... project. In 2021, as Kachkine made his way to MIT to start his PhD program in mechanical engineering, he ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/have-damaged-painting-restore-it-just-hours-ai-generated-%E2%80%9Cmask%E2%80%9DTackling poverty, one person at a time
When Staten Island-native Sarah Tress first arrived at MIT, she had never been outside of the ... working to reduce poverty, one person at a time. MIT-Student-Tress-01-10243.jpg Image: Melanie Gonick ... Tress began her studies at MIT on a premed track. However, a MISTI internship at a hospital in a poor ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/tackling-poverty-one-person-time3-D Printing 101
As MIT course challenges students to reinvent 3-D printing, professor aims to share approach with ... Engineering at MIT, says early education on 3-D printing is the key to helping the technology expand as an ... industry. In 2013, Hart created an MIT graduate course, 2.S998 (Additive Manufacturing), that explores the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/3-d-printing-101Hot New Solar Cell
MIT researchers has for the first time demonstrated a device based on a method that enables solar ... electricity. MIT-Solar-Thermal_1024.jpg While all research in traditional photovoltaics faces the same ... underlying theoretical limitations, MIT PhD student David Bierman says, “with solar thermal photovoltaics you ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/hot-new-solar-cellNew Microfluidic Device Offers Means for Studying Electric Field Cancer Therapy
Researchers at MIT’s research center in Singapore have developed a new microfluidic device that tests the ... no adverse effect on neighboring healthy cells. MIT-Electric-Therapy_1024.jpg Photo courtesy of ... Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology The device, about the size of a U.S. dollar coin, is designed ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-microfluidic-device-offers-means-studying-electric-field-cancer-therapyData-driven diabetes management
nonadherent spend about $2,700 more in medical costs per year than those who are adherent. Now MIT spinout ... year. MIT_CommonSensing_1024.jpg Common Sensing co-founders James White (left) and Richard Whalley. ... insulin.” Making a win-win product During their MIT years, White, a mechanical engineering student, and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/data-driven-diabetes-managementClearing the air
graduate, is one of seven MIT students who have interned with Plume Labs, a Paris-based startup that builds ... four summer interns from the MIT-France Program, which is part of the MIT International Science and ... Technology Initiatives (MISTI), and three one-month interns from the MIT Alumni Association’s Student ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/clearing-airVeteran engineer studies career pathways of today’s graduates
becoming a graduate student at MIT, and many of the watershed moments in his engineering career were filled ... with uncertainy. MIT-james-magarian_1024.jpg Jim Magarian is a third-year graduate student and an ... engineering leadership instructor with the Gordon-MIT Engineering Leadership (GEL) Program. Photo: Bryce ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/veteran-engineer-studies-career-pathways-today%E2%80%99s-graduatesA graphene roll-out
MIT engineers have developed a continuous manufacturing process that produces long strips of ... biological separation, and other applications. MIT-Graphene-Roll-1024.jpg A new manufacturing process ... Image: Christine Daniloff, MIT “For several years, researchers have thought of graphene as a potential ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/graphene-roll-outStartup uses 3-D printing to reinvent the production of metal parts
printing prototypes and small batches of metal parts. MIT-Desktop-Metal-1024.jpg Desktop Metal co-founders ... (seated left to right): Ric Fulop, CEO and co-founder; A. John Hart, MIT professor; Jonah Myerberg, CTO; ... (standing left to right): Yet Ming-Chiang, MIT professor; Chris Schuh, MIT professor; Ely Sachs, MIT ...
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