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Introducing the MIT-GE Vernova Climate and Energy Alliance
they work on,” said GE Vernova Fellow Aaron Langham. “I’m looking forward to learning more about how ... see this as a chance to connect fundamental research with practical applications — using insights from ... at MIT. “Students, take this opportunity to learn, connect, and appreciate how much you’re valued, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/introducing-mit-ge-vernova-climate-and-energy-allianceOur hairy insides
flow. Photo courtesy of the researchers Now engineers at MIT have found a way to predict how such tiny, ... Engineering. “These angled hairs can be used to make a fluid diode that switches from high resistance to low ... cylinder along. Scientists can then use this measured torque to calculate the liquid’s viscosity. For their ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/our-hairy-insidesMIT J-WAFS awards eight grants in seventh round of seed funding
archived observations on rainfall, temperature, and yield. His goal is to better understand how impacts of ... will use solar-reflecting materials and highly porous insulation to double the shelf life of perishable ... scientist at the MIT Media Lab, to develop a food safety test that is rapid, sensitive, and easy to use. The ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-j-wafs-awards-eight-grants-seventh-round-seed-fundingTackling a global warming conundrum
warming it. Just knowing the trade-off happens isn’t enough to make useful predictions and inform policy ... warming effect to Earth’s surface, aerosol pollution in the atmosphere actually partly counteracts it. ... dramatically. In principle, if China and India were to begin fixing their aerosol problem, which kills hundreds ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/tackling-global-warming-conundrumCancer cells soften as they metastasize, study suggests
tissue, and begin to multiply. In 2013, Kamm’s lab was first able to explore this process using ... properties. To avoid that kind of interference, the researchers decided to use two optical techniques, which ... When cancer cells metastasize, they often travel in the bloodstream to a remote tissue or organ, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/cancer-cells-soften-they-metastasize-study-suggestsExperiments reveal the physics of evaporation
observations to guide their choices of materials and operating conditions. By using a new technique to both ... order to probe the effects right at the boundary between the liquid and the vapor, the researchers used ... cause the water to evaporate. Then, “we also use that membrane as the sensor, to sense the temperature ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/experiments-reveal-physics-evaporationMIT PhD students shed light on important water and food research
Katharina Fransen works to develop biologically-based, biodegradable plastics which can be used for food ... know how important it is to do something which is not just scientifically interesting, but something ... evaporation to clean water. He is currently investigating the fundamental properties of how light at different ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-phd-students-shed-light-important-water-and-food-researchA material’s insulating properties can be tuned at will
the form of heat, such as from a solar-thermal installation, it would be useful to have a container ... a truly innovative and novel way for using ion insertion and extraction in solids to tune or switch ... called brownmillerite (center), but when oxygen ions are added to it (right), it becomes more orderly and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/material%E2%80%99s-insulating-properties-can-be-tuned-willProjects advance naval ship design and capabilities
goes through multiple iterations of defining how they want their next ship to be designed and we are ... was determining how such a vessel could be outfitted with sensors to carry out a range of missions ... engines and two gas turbines that are also used to power large aircraft like the Dreamliner. For their new ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/projects-advance-naval-ship-design-and-capabilitiesLegena Henry
of the West Indies wondered how to help their island of Barbados become fossil fuel free by 2030. ... on the island. Even the plentiful distilleries in Barbados that once primarily used sugar cane to ... Their first thoughts turned to Brazil—home to the world’s largest fleet of cars that run on sugar-based ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/legena-henry“Colloidal gels,” ubiquitous in everyday products, divulge their secrets
ingredients, as well as in applications ranging from water purification to nuclear waste disposal, which use ... a class of widely used soft materials known as weak colloidal gels, which are found in everything from ... cosmetics to building materials. The study characterizes the gels over their entire evolution, as they ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/%E2%80%9Ccolloidal-gels%E2%80%9D-ubiquitous-everyday-products-divulge-their-secretsProducts of Progress
traveled to Tanzania with a grant from MIT’s Public Service Center, showing villagers how to build and use ... small-scale farmers around the world still using only their hands and hoes for farming. To shell corn, these ... came at a very useful time, because I couldn’t even pay for my work permit to stay in Tanzania,” Wu ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/products-progressMIT engineers introduce the Oreometer
uses pennies and rubber bands to control the twisting force that progressively twists the cookie open. ... rotation and torque. Owens, who regularly uses a laboratory rheometer to test fluid materials such as ... When you twist open an Oreo cookie to get to the creamy center, you’re mimicking a standard test ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-engineers-introduce-oreometerAlumni Spotlight: Professor Woodie Flowers (SM ‘68, MEng ‘71, PhD ‘73)
single student using a universal kit of tools and components – head to head during an event that quickly ... Flowers not only how to be creative and productive with his hands but also that through the success of ... family, Flowers unexpectedly received a scholarship to college. “I was planning to get a job in the oil ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/alumni-spotlight-professor-woodie-flowers-sm-%E2%80%9868-meng-%E2%80%9871-phd-%E2%80%9873Drive-by monitoring for urban streetlights
mounted on top of a vehicle, in much the same way that Google uses vehicle-mounted camera systems to ... picking up the location of streetlights using digital cameras and sophisticated software to distinguish ... cameras to estimate the heights of the street lamps. … This type of information would be extremely useful ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/drive-monitoring-urban-streetlightsNew ultrastiff, ultralight material developed
decreases, fractures become more likely. But using the right mathematically determined structures to ... to transfer that mathematical understanding “to something we can print, using a digital projection ... to impressive heights, and each was the world’s tallest building when completed. But the Washington ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-ultrastiff-ultralight-material-developedWith a quantum “squeeze,” clocks could keep even more precise time, MIT researchers propose
be improved, even past its quantum limit. “What we’ve shown is, there’s actually a limit to how ... super-quantum precision. These systems could then be used to track infinitesimally small differences in time, ... timekeepers, the oscillations of a laser beam stimulate atoms to vibrate at 9.2 billion times per second. These ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/quantum-%E2%80%9Csqueeze%E2%80%9D-clocks-could-keep-even-more-precise-time-mit-researchers-proposeJim Magarian
students’ understanding of how much math the job requires, he says you start to see what you might expect. ... of how much math the job requires, he says you start to see what you might expect. Math-confident ... and wasn’t sure what it was going to be like. There were pockets of time where I didn’t like what ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/jim-magarianColoring outside the lines
stunning examples of structural color in nature and ask how we can use knowledge about nature’s ways to ... bandages and used as visual pressure sensors, to optimize compression applied to a patients’ healing limbs. ... ideas I started at MIT only became viable because my students took them and figured out how to make them ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/coloring-outside-linesUnleashing perovskites’ potential for solar cells
of a hair, has revealed the details of the process, with potential clues for how to improve the ... silicon must be processed at temperatures above 1,400 degrees Celsius, using expensive equipment that ... solution at temperatures as low as 100 degrees, using inexpensive equipment. What’s more, perovskites can ...
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