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Inventing soft things to solve hard problems

MIT professor of mechanical engineering. “I got close contact with many farm animals and asked lots of ... British Columbia, where he learned the basics of materials design. After earning his PhD in mechanical ...

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Untangling How Cables Coil

associate professor of mechanical engineering and civil and environmental engineering at MIT. “We have ...

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Tough New Hydrogel Hybrid Doesn’t Dry Out

Associate Professor in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, devised a method to robustly bind ...

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Tapping the hidden value of farm waste, while reducing harmful burn off

the poverty line? Ahmed Ghoniem, the Ronald C. Crane (1972) Professor of Mechanical Engineering at ...

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Watering the world

led by Amos Winter, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering, plans to further modify the ...

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New scaling law predicts how wheels drive over sand

the researchers Ken Kamrin, associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, says the scaling law ...

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Projects make inroads on global food and water challenges

projects is one by Gail E. Kendall Professor of Mechanical Engineering Evelyn Wang and chemistry professor ...

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Cell-weighing method could help doctors choose cancer drugs

Erna Viterbi Professor in the MIT departments of Biological Engineering and Mechanical Engineering and ...

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Engineers 3-D print a “living tattoo”

Noyce Career Development Professor in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, and Timothy Lu, ...

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New theory describes intricacies of a splashing droplet

or molecules,” says Jose Manuel Gordillo, professor of fluid mechanics at the University of Seville ...

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New system recovers fresh water from power plants

by Maher Damak PhD ’18 and associate professor of mechanical engineering Kripa Varanasi. Damak and ...

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Extending the life of low-cost, compact, lightweight batteries

Energy Yang Shao-Horn, and professor of mechanical engineering Douglas P. Hart. While several other ...

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Sun-soaking device turns water into superheated steam

Thomas Cooper, assistant professor of mechanical engineering at York University, who led the work as ...

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From microfluidics to metastasis

Engineering and Mechanical Engineering and a member of the Koch Institute. As luck and lunch lines would have ...

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Engineers make clear droplets produce iridescent colors

assistant professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. “As some of these dyes are more strongly regulated, ...

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Researchers tune material’s color and thermal properties separately

Svetlana Boriskina, a research scientist in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. Boriskina is author ...

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MIT spinout seeks to transform food safety testing

Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT and recipient of a separate 2017 J-WAFS seed grant, is an expert ...

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Experiments reveal the physics of evaporation

of mechanical engineering and department head Evelyn Wang, and three others at MIT and Tokyo ...

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This flat structure morphs into shape of a human face when temperature changes

lenses in telescopes. Wim van Rees, assistant professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, also sees ...

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Oobleck’s weird behavior is now predictable

store, buy cornstarch, then turn on your faucet,” says Ken Kamrin, associate professor of mechanical ...

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