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Demystifying the Cretaceous hothouse
Ferreira, research scientist in the Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences at MIT, whose ... existed north of the Arctic Circle. This world had warmer oceans, featuring deep ocean temperatures 12 ... degrees Celsius higher than now. For any climate scientist who enjoys stretching the limits of current ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/demystifying-cretaceous-hothouseSolving the polar climate conundrum
may even be gaining sea ice. Now, MIT researchers have a better understanding of the elemental ... the Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Oceanography at MIT, and his group investigated this phenomenon ... explain why the Arctic has warmed faster than the Antarctic. In MIT computer simulations of the ocean and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/solving-polar-climate-conundrumTackling the world’s challenges in the field
entrepreneurship through MIT-MEET (Middle East Entrepreneurs of Tomorrow). For today's graduates of MIT, the ... practical intercultural skills working alongside international colleagues. An embodiment of MIT ... the MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences within the Center for International Studies ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/tackling-world%E2%80%99s-challenges-fieldUnderstanding how fluids heat or cool surfaces
mechanical engineering at MIT, made a careful analysis of published experimental data and found that this ... through heating and cooling ducts, the flow of fluid across flat surfaces is a phenomenon at the heart of ... many of the processes of modern life. Yet, aspects of this process have been poorly understood, and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/understanding-how-fluids-heat-or-cool-surfacesWhy have solar energy costs fallen?
MIT researchers have been awarded a grant of nearly $1.3 million through the U.S. Department of ... affiliates of the MIT Energy Initiative — and Robert Margolis of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory. ... society.” The project team will build on MIT’s work from the first round of SunShot’s Solar Energy Evolution ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/why-have-solar-energy-costs-fallen“For whosoever commands the sea commands the trade"
engineering background, she came to MIT to work with Professor Emeritus Henry Marcus, one of the most ... shipbuilding at MIT starting in 1971. With support from the American Bureau of Shipping, Willeman and Marcus ... much of his MIT career. The program offered master’s and doctoral degrees to engineering students ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/%E2%80%9C-whosoever-commands-sea-commands-tradeNew surface treatment stops scale buildup
Ocean Utilization in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. “You can see [scale] pretty much ... temporarily, of operating wells. So addressing this problem could have a big payoff. Now a team of researchers ... at MIT has come up with a potential solution to this huge but little-recognized problem. A new kind ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-surface-treatment-stops-scale-buildupShowcasing solutions for land, sea, space — and everywhere in between
one of the 44 participants in this year’s MIT Mechanical Engineering Research Exhibition (MERE), which ... Engineers (GAME) and MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. Graduate students, postdocs, and ... mechanical engineering research being conducted at MIT,” says Nick Fang, a professor of mechanical ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/showcasing-solutions-land-sea-space-%E2%80%94-and-everywhere-betweenEngineers turn the body’s goo into new glue
team’s results appears this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Degen’s MIT ... coming to MIT, Degen was a graduate student at the University of California at Santa Barbara, where he ... When Degen came to MIT, he worked with both McKinley, a professor of mechanical engineering and an ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/engineers-turn-body%E2%80%99s-goo-new-glueEngineers design sutures that can deliver drugs or sense inflammation
Inspired by sutures developed thousands of years ago, MIT engineers have designed “smart” sutures ... mechanical engineering at MIT, a gastroenterologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and the senior author of ... MIT team is an exciting platform for sensing and delivering a wide range of therapeutics, including ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/engineers-design-sutures-can-deliver-drugs-or-sense-inflammationFaculty Research: Professor Rohit Karnik
slowing down to help in the healing of inflamed areas. Researchers at MIT and Brigham and Women’s Hospital ... – including MIT Professor Rohit Karnik, postdoc Sung Young Choi of MIT, and Jeffrey Karp, Associate Professor ... Karnik’s new microfluidic device isolates target cells (in pink) from the rest of the flow by getting them ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/faculty-research-professor-rohit-karnikDroplets break a theoretical time barrier on bouncing
Engineering at MIT, along with James Bird, a former MIT postdoc who is now an assistant professor of ... to bounce away from such a surface. But MIT researchers have now found a way to burst through that ... the journal Nature co-authored by Kripa Varanasi, the Doherty Associate Professor of Mechanical ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/droplets-break-theoretical-time-barrier-bouncingFaculty Research: Professor John Lienhard
University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM) and leads the Center for Clean Water and Clean Energy at MIT; he ... Credit: David Castro-Olmedo/MIT by Alissa Mallinson If you live in a First World country, you probably do ... Lienhard V, the Samuel C. Collins Professor of Mechanical Engineering, you should. “The world supply of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/faculty-research-professor-john-lienhard-0A new way to make microstructured surfaces
Development Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT and senior author of a paper describing the ... doctoral student from the University of Michigan; and Sameh Tawfick, a former postdoc at MIT who is now at ... A team of researchers has created a new way of manufacturing microstructured surfaces that have ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-way-make-microstructured-surfacesBig data dreams for tiny technologies
small-molecule partners will form nanoparticles among the millions of possible pairings. MIT researchers have ... Professor at MIT and a member of the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, is also a senior author ... Small-molecule therapeutics treat a wide variety of diseases, but their effectiveness is often ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/big-data-dreams-tiny-technologiesIdeaStream 2020 goes virtual
MIT’s Deshpande Center for Technological Innovation hosted IdeaStream, an annual showcase of ... far-flung attendees IdeaStream is known not only as an exhibition of MIT projects, but as a bridge between ... technologies being developed across MIT, online for the first time in the event’s 18-year history. Last month, ...
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