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A new way to mix oil and water
As anyone who has ever used salad dressing knows, no matter how vigorously the mixture gets shaken, ... either mechanically shaking the mix or using sound waves to set up intense vibrations within the liquid, ... for someone to use” for a particular kind of application, Varanasi says. “It’s such an important ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-way-mix-oil-and-waterTechnology developed by MIT engineers makes pesticides stick to plant leaves
stick to the leaves as intended. Reducing the amount of agricultural sprays used by farmers could ... forced farmers to rely on personal experience and rules of thumb to decide how to apply these chemicals. ... In their initial tests they used 1 percent oil compared to the water, then they tried a 0.1 percent, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/technology-developed-mit-engineers-makes-pesticides-stick-plant-leavesWhat will happen to sediment plumes associated with deep-sea mining?
detrimental to surrounding sea life, the formula can be used to calculate how far a plume above that ... These predictions, the researchers say, can now be used by biologists and environmental regulators to ... within the vicinity of the discharge. The researchers used these results to provide the correct input for ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/what-will-happen-sediment-plumes-associated-deep-sea-miningEngineers identify key to albatross’ marathon flight
The birds use their formidable wingspans, measuring up to 11 feet across, to catch and ride the wind. ... have developed a new model to simulate dynamic soaring, and have used it to identify the optimal flight ... Now engineers at MIT have developed a new model to simulate dynamic soaring, and have used it to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/engineers-identify-key-albatross%E2%80%99-marathon-flightStartup aims to flush away the problem of icky toilet seats
“Everyone who’s had to use a dirty toilet before knows how big a problem they are,” Li says. “Everyone is ... did,” Li says. “This is meaningful to me and how I spent my time the past four years at MIT, and we now ... when an individual is using the seat and utilizes a clever system to adjust when it should lift itself. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/startup-aims-flush-away-problem-icky-toilet-seatsMIT Faculty Collaborate to Address Environmental Challenges
Grants of up to $200,000 Will Fund Environmental Partnerships Over the Next Two Years. How can ... of sustainable consumption, using the mantra: “Reduce, Reuse, Recycle.” But how are U.S. cities ... behaviors that drive competition for natural resources using game theory, a framework that has been used to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-faculty-collaborate-address-environmental-challengesUltrasound has potential to damage coronaviruses, study finds
coronaviruses may be vulnerable to ultrasound vibrations, within the frequencies used in medical diagnostic ... used simple concepts of the mechanics and physics of solids to construct a geometrical and ... Spain, who are using atomic force microscopy to observe the effects of ultrasound vibrations on a type of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/ultrasound-has-potential-damage-coronaviruses-study-findsMIT.nano courses bring hands-on experimentation to virtual participants
(RLE), used motion capture technology and wireless sensors to explain how simple tasks such as walking or ... Zanforlin used a Ricoh Theta V 360 camera and a monopod, along with editing software from Adobe Premiere, to ... introduced to recording muscle activity using electromyography. “When I think about movement now,” said one ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mitnano-courses-bring-hands-experimentation-virtual-participantsA new way to provide cooling without power
materials and requiring no fossil fuel-generated power. The passive system, which could be used to ... versions of the device designed by MIT researchers, using a strip of metal to block direct sunlight, were ... available for widespread use, the researchers say. The devices are complex because they are designed to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-way-provide-cooling-without-powerTwo projects receive funding for technologies that avoid carbon emissions
and Barton’s project, “Lower cost, CO 2-free, H 2 production from CH 4 using liquid tin,” investigates ... essential to modern life, as it is primarily used to make ammonia for fertilizer, which plays an ... hydrogen, but follows a different pathway. SMR uses the oxygen in water to liberate the hydrogen by ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/two-projects-receive-funding-technologies-avoid-carbon-emissions3 Questions: Why sensing, why now, what next?
an entire factory so that information on how to debug one computer-controlled machine can be used to ... Sensors are everywhere today, from our homes and vehicles to medical devices, smart phones, and ... other useful tech. More and more, sensors help detect our interactions with the environment around us ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/3-questions-why-sensing-why-now-what-nextRobot, know thyself: New vision-based system teaches machines to understand their bodies
mapping using just a few examples. By modeling how specific points deform or shift in response to action, ... it allows robots to learn how their bodies respond to control commands, solely through vision. The ... and letting it learn how to achieve the goal autonomously.” The motivation stems from a simple but ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/robot-know-thyself-new-vision-based-system-teaches-machines-understand-their-bodiesSTE@M: Sports Technology and Education @ MIT
director of R&D at Patagonia and STE@M advisory board member. O’Hara taught the students how to analyze ... suspicions as to whether or not it was really an educational trip. STE@M – Sports Technology and Education ... Hosoi to start STE@M in the first place. She will never forget the first time she went downhill biking ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/stem-sports-technology-and-education-mitStepping on stage with Beyoncé
presentation done by new members of his fraternity, Alpha Phi Alpha. “One of my dance goals is to put stepping ... professional dance wasn’t always the plan. “My goal was to be the next Walt Disney,” Brown explains. “I majored ... in Course 2 [mechanical engineering] because I wanted to design rollercoasters and to create my own ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/stepping-stage-beyonc%C3%A9-0Joe Brown
presentation done by new members of his fraternity, Alpha Phi Alpha. “One of my dance goals is to put stepping ... “My goal was to be the next Walt Disney,” Brown explains. “I majored in Course 2 [mechanical ... engineering] because I wanted to design rollercoasters and to create my own theme park.” Brown’s passion for ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/joe-brownStents inspired by paper-cutting art can deliver drugs to the GI tract
structures, MIT engineers and their collaborators have designed a new type of stent that could be used to ... maximizes the likelihood of helping to resolve patients’ conditions and could be transformative in how we ... kirigami, a technique that Traverso’s lab has previously used to design a nonslip coating for shoe soles. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/stents-inspired-paper-cutting-art-can-deliver-drugs-gi-tractFrom 3D-printed limbs to semi-autonomous race cars
head rotation, Schmidt steered. He used a sip-and-puff device to accelerate and brake. Harmonizing ... a new actuator and new sensing technologies so that we can use machine learning to anticipate motion of ... types of technologies were very awkward for people to use. And they almost worked against the human as ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/3d-printed-limbs-semi-autonomous-race-carsA new approach to ultrafast light pulses
to be addressed include determining the useful lifetimes of these materials and how they might be ... these materials to be useful in devices such as photonic chips — which are like semiconductor chips but ... carry out their operations using light instead of electrons — “the challenge is to be able to switch ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-approach-ultrafast-light-pulsesStudy predicts heart cells’ response to dwindling oxygen
instead to see how a heart cell changes over a much longer timescale, to understand how a patient’s heart ... reperfusion. “We decided to see what is the state of the cell up to the moment of reperfusion. How is it ... equations into the model, McDougal ran more than 200 simulations, to see how a cell’s total ATP production ...
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