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Whales Dine with Their Own Kind
Mapping whale calls, researchers find the predators feed in species-specific hotspots. For a few ... predators to the shallow banks, including many species of whales. Now researchers from MIT, Northeastern ... University, the Institute of Marine Research in Norway, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/whales-dine-their-own-kindTough New Hydrogel Hybrid Doesn’t Dry Out
model to quantitatively guide the design of various hydrogel-elastomer bonds. In addition, the researchers ... to solid surfaces such as metal, ceramic, and glass. The researchers used the technique to embed ... toxic. Instead, the researchers, inspired by skin, reasoned that coating hydrogels with a material that ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/tough-new-hydrogel-hybrid-doesn%E2%80%99t-dry-outSponge creates steam using ambient sunlight
generating steam through its pores. The design, which the researchers call a “solar vapor generator,” ... researchers found the structure heated water to its boiling temperature of 100 degrees Celsius, even on ... The team has published its results today in the journal Nature Energy. The research was led by George ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/sponge-creates-steam-using-ambient-sunlightNot stuck on silicon
performance and not cost.” Kim’s research team discovered this new technique at MIT’s Research Laboratory of ... Choi, and Wei Kong; visiting research scholar Chanyeol Choi; Merton C. Flemings-SMA Professor of ... Science and Technology. Graphene shift Since graphene’s discovery in 2004, researchers have been ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/not-stuck-siliconNew test rapidly diagnoses Zika
MIT researchers have developed a paper-based test that can diagnose Zika infection within 20 ... MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. Image courtesy of the researchers This test could offer an ... Mechanical Engineering, and a co-senior author of the paper. The researchers worked with scientists around ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-test-rapidly-diagnoses-zikaEngineers 3-D print a “living tattoo”
compounds, corresponding regions of the tree light up in response. The researchers, led by Xuanhe Zhao, the ... researchers can use the model as a guide in designing responsive living materials. Zhao, Lu, and their ... a variety of stimuli. The researchers are not the first to consider 3-D printing genetically engineered ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/engineers-3-d-print-%E2%80%9Cliving-tattoo%E2%80%9DTurning heat into electricity
might one day become a reality. MIT-dirac-heat-1024.jpg MIT researchers, looking for ways to turn heat ... the amount of energy they are able to produce, is currently limited. Now researchers at MIT have ... a paper published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the MIT researchers ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/turning-heat-electricityMIT.nano courses bring hands-on experimentation to virtual participants
research. Scholvin shared this lesson on gowning up during a virtual series of tours of the facility that ... comparing the layout to that of a grocery store: the bays where researchers work are like the aisles where ... Harvard Visualization Research and Teaching Laboratory, and Samantha Farrell, MIT.nano senior ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mitnano-courses-bring-hands-experimentation-virtual-participantsDesign could enable longer lasting, more powerful lithium batteries
now take for granted, as well as the rapid expansion of electric vehicle production. But researchers ... electrode of a battery cell that used a conventional electrolyte (as seen on the left). The researchers ... researchers One promising approach is the use of metal electrodes in place of the conventional graphite, with ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/design-could-enable-longer-lasting-more-powerful-lithium-batteriesHoming in on longer-lasting perovskite solar cells
MIT-Better-Perovskite-1024.jpg Researchers have developed a new way to test long-lasting perovskite formulations that could be ... Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART), and 16 others from MIT, Germany, Singapore, ... compare the vast realm of possible compositions to an ocean, and he says most researchers have stayed very ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/homing-longer-lasting-perovskite-solar-cellsHigh-speed camera captures a water jet’s splashy impact as it pierces a droplet
apple. Analysis could help tune needle-free injection systems. Image courtesy of researchers, and Tiny ... dynamics. As the droplets in their experiments are transparent, the researchers were also able to track what ... happens inside a droplet as a jet is fired through. Based on their experiments, the researchers developed ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/high-speed-camera-captures-water-jet%E2%80%99s-splashy-impact-it-pierces-dropletExplained: Why perovskites could take solar cells to new heights
subject of increasing research and investment, but companies looking to harness their potential do have to ... perovskite itself. (Some researchers even bend the rules a little by naming other crystal structures with ... of mechanical engineering at MIT and director of the Photovoltaics Research Laboratory. “Perovskites ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/explained-why-perovskites-could-take-solar-cells-new-heightsNew purification method could make protein drugs cheaper
which help them to form protein crystals. Courtesy of the Researchers, colorized by MIT News. In an ... becomes affordable in the developing world.” The researchers demonstrated that their approach can be used ... Researchers often crystallize proteins to study their structures, but the process is considered too slow for ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-purification-method-could-make-protein-drugs-cheaperEngineers devise a modular system to produce efficient, scalable aquabots
design and build. Now, researchers at MIT and their colleagues — including one from the original RoboTuna ... however, allows for virtually unlimited variations in form and scale, the researchers say. Seagrant researh ... (2).jpg Images Left Top: Researchers have come up with an innovative approach to building deformable ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/engineers-devise-modular-system-produce-efficient-scalable-aquabotsIngestible “electroceutical” capsule stimulates hunger-regulating hormone
In tests in animals, the researchers showed that this “electroceutical” capsule could significantly ... To test that hypothesis, the researchers used an electrical probe to deliver electrical stimulation ... provoking ghrelin release, the researchers set out to see if they could achieve the same thing using ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/ingestible-%E2%80%9Celectroceutical%E2%80%9D-capsule-stimulates-hunger-regulating-hormoneSelf-powered sensor automatically harvests magnetic energy
MIT researchers have developed a battery-free, self-powered sensor that can harvest energy from ... and operations for long periods of time. The researchers built a temperature-sensing device that ... Computer Science (EECS) and professor of mechanical engineering, a member of the Research Laboratory of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/self-powered-sensor-automatically-harvests-magnetic-energyMethod rapidly verifies that a robot will avoid collisions
1024-Planning-01_0-1.jpg MIT researchers have developed a rapid safety check technique which can ensure a robot will avoid ... researchers have developed a safety check technique which can prove with 100 percent accuracy that a robot’s ... millimeters, provides proof in only a few seconds. But a user doesn’t need to take the researchers’ word for it ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/method-rapidly-verifies-robot-will-avoid-collisionsMIT engineers solve the sticky-cell problem in bioreactors and other industries
efficient. MIT-CellAdhesion-02-press_1024.jpg To test their setup, researchers allowed algae cells to stick ... from the surfaces without harming them. Credit: Joy Zheng Now, MIT researchers have developed an ... open-access paper published in Science Advances, the researchers demonstrated their approach in a lab ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-engineers-solve-sticky-cell-problem-bioreactors-and-other-industriesA smarter way for large language models to think about hard problems
To make large language models (LLMs) more accurate when answering harder questions, researchers ... intricate problems that require more reasoning. MIT-RewardModel-01-press_1024.jpg MIT researchers developed ... Credit: MIT News; iStock To address this, MIT researchers developed a smarter way to allocate ...
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