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A community approach to improving the health of the planet

first time that administrative staff joined students, researchers, and postdocs in sharing their own ... research. Untitled design (77).png Left photo: Hosted by MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, the ... were invited to present their research efforts alongside students, faculty, and postdocs. Here, Theresa ...

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The ocean’s hidden waves show their power

new research, both in the ocean and in the largest-ever laboratory experiments to investigate internal ... institutions, and coordinated by the Office of Naval Research (ONR). Seen in cross-section, these waves resemble ... Thomas Peacock, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, has teamed with researchers from ...

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Six MIT faculty elected 2019 AAAS Fellows

and a leading researcher on the acquisition of various aspects of syntax by children and adults in ... Research.   Wesley L. Harris  is the Charles Stark Draper Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics and has ... research program includes unsteady aerodynamics, aeroacoustics, rarefied gas dynamics, sustainment of ...

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Cell-weighing method could help doctors choose cancer drugs

a particular drug. This can lead to months of treatment with a drug that isn’t working. Researchers at MIT have ... a member of MIT’s Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research. “For infectious diseases, antibiotic ... Communications. The paper’s lead authors are Mark Stevens, a visiting scientist at the Koch Institute and research ...

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Fundamental equations guide marine robots to optimal sampling sites

MIT-Sea-Sensing-01-1024.jpg WHOI and MIT researchers deploy an autonomous underwater vehicle to test new navigation and ... sensing algorithms. Image: MSEAS With their method, the researchers can predict the degree to which one ... ideal sampling destinations, the researchers developed a way to help AUVs use the uncertain ocean’s ...

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

Researchers at MIT and elsewhere have designed 3-D printed mesh-like structures that morph from ... approximately 160mm tall. Image: Lori K. Sanders As a demonstration, the researchers printed a flat mesh that, ... to make the structure transform into a desired shape. The researchers say that down the road, their ...

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Model could help determine quarantine measures needed to reduce Covid-19’s spread

Some of the research described in this article has been published on a preprint server but has not ... A model developed by MIT researchers shows a direct link between the number of people who become infected ... and how effectively a state maintains its quarantine measures. The researchers described their model ...

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Study finds potential in brackish groundwater desalination

New research suggests there’s a large untapped resource for many of the increasingly water-limited ... Based on measurements taken at more than 100,000 wells around the country, the MIT researchers ... Courtesy of the researchers The findings, based on analysis of a massive dataset of water samples from ...

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Outside-the-Box Thinker

printing has two extremes: At one end is rapid prototyping, which allows researchers to design, print, and ... On the other end is express, large-scale construction of single objects. That’s where his research ... Spielberg and his colleagues thought outside the box: They researched and implemented methods for ...

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Hidden ocean waves

which internal tides ricochet at angles and speeds that the scientists can now predict. The researchers ... have published their findings in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans and the Journal of ... MIT for this research; Pierre Lermusiaux, an associate professor of mechanical engineering and ocean ...

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Probing microscopic wiggles in squishy materials

like liquid or hold their shape like a solid. Now MIT researchers have peered into the microstructure ... particles in water and evolving into thick, uniform goo. The researchers zoomed in at various size scales to ... researchers say their findings, reported on Feb. 27 in the journal Physical Review Letters, represent the ...

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Velcro-like food sensor detects spoilage and contamination

pathogenic E. coli. The researchers attached the sensor to a fillet of raw fish that they had injected with ... courtesy of the researchers The results, published today in the journal Advanced Functional Materials, are ... delivers nutrients to plants. In conversation, the researchers wondered whether their technologies could be ...

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