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Making agriculture more resilient to climate change
Researchers across MIT are taking on these agricultural challenges from a variety of angles, from engineering ... associate professor of civil and environmental engineering at MIT. Marelli is the director of one of the six ... missions of the recently launched Climate Project at MIT, which focus on research areas such as ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/making-agriculture-more-resilient-climate-changeWind Energy Reaches Greater Heights
Pappalardo Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT — is developing a novel system that adapts ... to the wind farm.” MIT-Keystone-1024.jpg Model of a turbine constructed with Keystone Tower ... electrical engineering and computer science at MIT, conceived of a tapered spiral-welding process while ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/wind-energy-reaches-greater-heightsDeveloping tech for, and with, people with disabilities
a wheelchair to avoid such situations. ATHack-2019-Ellen-MIT-1024.jpg ATHack participants Borja Apaolaza ... (center) and Naroa Coretti (right) consult with co-designer Ellen. Photo courtesy of the MIT Assistive ... pairs teams of students, most but not all of whom study at MIT, with people from the Boston and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/developing-tech-and-people-disabilities2.009 lights up the stage
On Monday night, MIT’s Kresge Auditorium might as well have been a rock arena, for all the ... was technology. MIT-2.009-05-1024.jpg Members of each of the eight student teams take the stage for ... product designers attended one of MIT’s most anticipated annual events to cheer on the 139 students of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/2009-lights-stageHelping older adults stay safe and independent
is putting themselves at greater risk of falling.” MIT_Walk-Wise-01-PRESS_0.jpg WalkWise uses ... Chamberlain could have imagined when he was tinkering with a prototype for his family in MIT’s MakerWorkshop ... engineering at MIT, Chamberlain was involved in a lot more than just his coursework. In one of his first weeks ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/helping-older-adults-stay-safe-and-independentMotion-Induced Quicksand
MIT granular model explains unusual behavior in sand. From a mechanical perspective, granular ... mechanical engineering at MIT, studies granular materials, using mathematical models to explain their ... replicating the Couette cell geometry. MIT-Quicksand.jpg Photo: Martin Van Hecke/Leiden Modeling spin and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/motion-induced-quicksandWaves in the Deep
wave — either of which can be devastating. Now a new study by an MIT researcher suggests that these ... and other nutrients around the globe in a matter of hours. MIT-Deep-Ocean-Waves-1024.jpg Usama Kadri, ... a postdoc in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, tracked the theoretical movement of fluid caught up ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/waves-deepDomitilla Del Vecchio Bridges Math, Engineering, and Biology
home. MIT-DelVecchio-1024.jpg Photo: M. Scott Brauer “He had a lab at our place that was full of all ... research since she came to MIT as an assistant professor of mechanical engineering in 2010. Attracted by ... “the strong program here in synthetic biology and biological engineering,” and by MIT’s encouragement ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/domitilla-del-vecchio-bridges-math-engineering-and-biologyBubble, Bubble, at the Flick of a Switch
first time, researchers at MIT have found a way to control this process, literally with the flick of an ... being hydrophilic and hydrophobic, Wang explains. MIT-Switchable-Boiling.jpg Researchers found that ... electric controls using the new technology.” The research was supported by the Singapore-MIT Alliance for ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/bubble-bubble-flick-switchBreaking Through the Bacteria Barrier
developed by MIT engineers may help scientists quickly home in on the electric field “sweet spot” — the ... at MIT. “Our big vision for this device and future iterations is to be able to take a process that ... and will survive the poration process, and it will uptake the DNA,” Buie says. MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/breaking-through-bacteria-barrierA new approach to ultrafast light pulses
relatively slow response time. Now, researchers at MIT, the University of California at Berkeley, and ... applications for these materials. MIT-FastLight-Emit-1024.jpg In this image, light strikes a molecular lattice ... findings are described in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, in a paper by MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-approach-ultrafast-light-pulsesLet your car tell you what it needs
accelerometers. MIT-Car-Diagnostics-1024.jpg A new smartphone app analyzes a car’s sounds and vibrations, as ... listening for when it starts to snore,” Joshua Siegel says. Image: MIT News The MIT research behind this ... Mechanical Engineering and vice president of open learning at MIT; and two others. A smartphone app combining ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/let-your-car-tell-you-what-it-needsKirigami-inspired technique manipulates light at the nanoscale
Now, researchers at MIT and in China have for the first time applied this approach to the creation of ... creation of new light-based communications, detection, or computational devices. MIT ... journal Science Advances, in a paper by MIT professor of mechanical engineering Nicholas X Fang and five ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/kirigami-inspired-technique-manipulates-light-nanoscaleAir pollution can put a dent in solar power
Ian Marius Peters, now an MIT research scientist, was working on solar energy research in ... citizens snapped them up to aid their breathing. MIT-Hazy-Photocells_1024.jpg Results have just been ... instruments, Peters worked with MIT associate professor of mechanical engineering Tonio Buonassisi and three ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/air-pollution-can-put-dent-solar-powerA new approach to liquid-repelling surfaces
MIT-Dew-Omniphobicity-1024.jpg This photo shows water droplets placed on the nanostructured surface developed by MIT researchers. ... with a specially designed shape. Images by Kyle Wilke Now, researchers at MIT have found a way to ... agreement between MIT and the Masdar Institute of Science and Technology in Abu Dhabi (now Khalifa ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-approach-liquid-repelling-surfacesTechnique identifies electricity-producing bacteria
other words, these microbes can actually produce electricity. MIT ... laboratory conditions. Now MIT engineers have developed a microfluidic technique that can quickly process ... do,” says Qianru Wang, a postdoc in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. “There is recent work ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/technique-identifies-electricity-producing-bacteriaA new way to make droplets bounce away
MIT-Bouncing-Droplets-01-1024.jpg Droplets that land on a specially prepared surface with tiny ring-shaped patterns splash upward in ... researchers at MIT demonstrates a new approach to minimizing the contact between droplets and surfaces. While ... described in the journal ACS Nano in a paper by MIT graduate student Henri-Louis Girard, postdoc Dan Soto, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-way-make-droplets-bounce-awayFlexible yet sturdy robot is designed to “grow” like a plant
oil cap. Now MIT engineers have developed a robot designed to extend a chain-like appendage flexible ... MIT-Robo-Plant-01-1024.jpg The new “growing robot” can be programmed to grow, or extend, in different directions, based on ... mechanical engineering at MIT. “After you open the engine roof, you have to be flexible enough to make sharp ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/flexible-yet-sturdy-robot-designed-%E2%80%9Cgrow%E2%80%9D-plantTo make mini-organs grow faster, give them a squeeze
like ideas, information, and even infection. Now researchers at MIT and Boston Children’s Hospital have ... would. MIT-Cell-Crowding-01-Press-1024.jpg the cell division marker Ki67 shows that the number of ... into more specialized cells. Ming Guo, associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, says that ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/make-mini-organs-grow-faster-give-them-squeezeCould lab-grown plant tissue ease the environmental toll of logging and agriculture?
sample of cells extracted from zinnia leaves. MIT researchers have proposed a method to grow plant-based ... Velásquez-García, a principal scientist in MIT’s Microsystems technology Laboratories, and Jeffrey Borenstein, ... for a particular purpose. MIT-Cultured-Plants-Chart1024.jpg The technology, as demonstrated in this ...
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