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With a zap of light, system switches objects’ colors and patterns

light. MIT researchers have developed a way to rapidly update imagery on object surfaces. The system, ... courtesy of the researchers ChromoUpdate “takes advantage of fast programming cycles — things that wouldn’t ... Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. The research will be presented at the ACM ...

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An all-in-one approach to diabetes treatment

stick with their treatment regimen. A team of MIT researchers has now come up with a new approach to ... food content, which can aid in carbohydrate counting.” The research team devised two different types of ... nutrient information from a USDA database. The first all-in-one device that the researchers designed ...

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MIT announces 2022 Bose grants for ambitious ideas

MIT Provost Cynthia Barnhart has announced three Professor Amar G. Bose Research Grants to support ... bold research projects across diverse areas of study including biology, engineering, and the ... nine researchers: John J. and Dorothy Wilson Professor of Health Sciences and Technology and Electrical ...

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Engineers fabricate a chip-free, wireless electronic “skin”

wirelessly transmits signals without bulky chips or batteries. Coutresy of the researchers. The researchers ... and of materials science and engineering, and a principal investigator in the Research Laboratory of ... which helped motivate the current work; members of the Kim Research Group at MIT; and other ...

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Crystan McLymore SM ’23: Exceling at sea and in the lab

mechanical engineering at MIT, after participating in research on an ingestible device that can detect ... engineering. “As someone who started her research career only two years ago, to reach this level is a testament ... McLymore and her fellow researchers were able to test their ingestible radiation-sensing capsule in vitro ...

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Imaging tech promises deepest looks yet into living brain tissue at single-cell resolution

For both research and medical purposes, researchers have spent decades pushing the limits of ... molecular activity of individual cells by using sound. PXL_20250616_165512541_1024.jpg Researchers have ... could boost neuroscience and clinical research. Credit: Tatsuya Osaki “The major advance here is to ...

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Study provides suggestions for keeping classroom air fresh

according to a new study from researchers at MIT. MIT-Covid-Classroom-01-1024.jpg Regular ventilation may ... architecture and engineering professor who is co-author of a new paper detailing the research. Indeed, the ... K. Rutherford, MIT undergraduates who participated in the research through the Undergraduate Research ...

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Professor Kamal Youcef-Toumi interviewed by Qatari television series Etqan

MechE Professor Kamal Youcef-Toumi first came to MIT as a graduate student in 1979. His research ... leaks in water systems. This research was part of the MIT Singapore Alliance and had the goal of ... Youcef-Toumi and  Sharifah Alghowinem, a research scientist in the Media Lab’s Personal Robots Group. ...

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3-D printed structures “remember” their shapes

on a heated Singapore dollar coin. Photo by Qi (Kevin) Ge For some structures, the researchers were ... a fever.” Fang’s coauthors include former MIT-SUTD research fellow Qi “Kevin” Ge, now an assistant professor ... at SUTD; former MIT research associate Howon Lee, now an assistant professor at Rutgers University; ...

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A new way to provide cooling without power

MIT researchers have devised a new way of providing cooling on a hot sunny day, using inexpensive ... versions of the device designed by MIT researchers, using a strip of metal to block direct sunlight, were ... Nature Communications in a paper by research scientist Bikram Bhatia, graduate student Arny Leroy, ...

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Unleashing perovskites’ potential for solar cells

that would be impossible with thicker, stiffer silicon wafers. Now, researchers have been able to ... variations could only be studied by trial and error, since researchers had no basic understanding of what was ... going on in the material. In previous research by a team from the Swiss École Polytechnique Fédérale de ...

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Reducing the burden of tuberculosis treatment

medical facilities. To help overcome that, a team of researchers led by MIT has devised a new way to ... well as researchers from Harvard Medical School, Boston University School of Public Health, several ... temperature. The researchers can string up to 600 “pills” of various antibiotics along the wire, and the drugs ...

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Solar energy farms could offer second life for electric vehicle batteries

by six current and former MIT researchers, including postdoc Ian Mathews and professor of mechanical ... engineering Tonio Buonassisi, who is head of the Photovoltaics Research Laboratory. MIT-Battery-Reuse-1024.jpg ... over a background of cars and solar panels. Image: MIT News As a test case, the researchers examined in ...

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Vibrations of coronavirus proteins may play a role in infection

sometimes jiggling the key a bit will help. Now, new research from MIT suggests that coronaviruses, ... involve biochemical mechanisms, but for this study the researchers took a different approach. Using ... research at MIT shows that vibrations of the protein spikes on coronaviruses, including the one that causes ...

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How to get salt out of water: Make it self-eject

MIT-Crystal-Droid-01-PRESS.jpg When the researchers began studying the way salts crystallize on ... researchers dubbed them collectively as “crystal critters” in the title of their paper. Photo courtesy of the ... the researchers. About a quarter of a percent of the entire gross domestic product of industrialized ...

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Ultralight material withstands supersonic microparticle impacts

armor, protective coatings, blast shields, and other impact-resistant materials. The researchers have ... coatings, blast shields, and other impact-resistant materials. Image courtesy of the researchers. The ... researchers calculate that compared with steel, Kevlar, aluminum, and other impact-resistant materials of ...

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Sweat-proof “smart skin” takes reliable vitals, even during workouts and spicy meals

MIT engineers and researchers in South Korea have developed a sweat-proof “electronic skin” ... pores in human skin, that the researchers etched through the material’s ultrathin layers. The pores ... researchers in MIT’s departments of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering, and the ...

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