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What will happen to sediment plumes associated with deep-sea mining?
These predictions, the researchers say, can now be used by biologists and environmental regulators to ... at Scripps, the U.S. Geological Survey, and researchers in Belgium and South Korea. Out to sea ... team went out to sea. In 2018, the researchers boarded the research vessel Sally Ride and set sail 50 ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/what-will-happen-sediment-plumes-associated-deep-sea-miningWeighing cancer cells to personalize drug choices
Researchers at MIT and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute have developed a new way to determine whether ... Research. “Essentially all of the clinically used cancer drugs either directly or indirectly stop the ... The lead authors of the paper are Max Stockslager SM ’17, PhD ’20 and Dana-Farber research technician ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/weighing-cancer-cells-personalize-drug-choicesDragging your feet? Lack of sleep affects your walk, new study finds
out other activities that are assumed to be less mentally taxing. The new study, by researchers at MIT ... be influenced by lack of sleep,” says Hermano Krebs, principal research scientist in MIT’s Department ... walk on a treadmill as researchers played and slowly shifted the frequency of a metronome. The ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/dragging-your-feet-lack-sleep-affects-your-walk-new-study-findsPhysicists embark on a hunt for a long-sought quantum glow
either enormous accelerations or vast amounts of observation time. But researchers at MIT and the ... The researchers liken their idea to throwing an invisibility cloak over other conventional phenomena, ... a warm, thermal glow of particles. In their study, the researchers introduced a new approach to increase ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/physicists-embark-hunt-long-sought-quantum-glowMIT engineers design surfaces that make water boil more efficiently
could significantly reduce their energy use. Now, researchers at MIT have found a way to do just that, ... Youngsup Song PhD ’21, Ford Professor of Engineering Evelyn Wang, and four others at MIT. The researchers ... Berkeley National Laboratory, carried out much of the research as part of his doctoral thesis work at MIT. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-engineers-design-surfaces-make-water-boil-more-efficientlyWiggling toward bio-inspired machine intelligence
Arbelaiz appreciates octopus and similar creatures in a different way, with her research into soft-robotics ... who is researching how to design decentralized intelligence for human-made systems with embedded ... MIT. In 2018, her doctoral research shifted to the interdisciplinary Sociotechnical System Research ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/wiggling-toward-bio-inspired-machine-intelligenceIn a surprising finding, light can make water evaporate without heat
missing a piece all this time. In recent years, some researchers have been puzzled upon finding that water ... results from various groups that claimed to have exceeded the thermal limit, a team of researchers at MIT ... efficiently than heat. In these experiments, the water was held in a hydrogel material, but the researchers ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/surprising-finding-light-can-make-water-evaporate-without-heatAdhesive coatings can prevent scarring around medical implants
immune system from attacking it. “The dream of many research groups and companies is to implant something ... system from attacking the device. Image: Felice Frankel; iStock The adhesive that the researchers used in ... fibrosis, the researchers found, and they believe this approach could be used for not only pacemakers but ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/adhesive-coatings-can-prevent-scarring-around-medical-implantsAI-enabled control system helps autonomous drones stay on target in uncertain environments
target, MIT researchers developed a new, machine learning-based adaptive control algorithm that could ... MIT researchers developed a new adaptive control system that could help autonomous drones stay on ... specific disturbances this drone is facing. The researchers train their control system to do both things ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/ai-enabled-control-system-helps-autonomous-drones-stay-target-uncertain-environmentsCerebral Curiosity
Steven Keating had his brain scanned out of sheer curiosity. Keating had joined a research study that ... for about 30 seconds every day. Knowing that his 2007 and 2010 research scans showed an abnormality ... science and director of MIT’s Research Laboratory of Electronics. The surgery was performed by ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/cerebral-curiosityCooling buildings worldwide
remained inefficient. Condensing water vapor is inherently energy-intensive, so the researchers needed to ... and Modeling, a research group at the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology. Lienhard ... identified air conditioning as a topic that would draw on their respective areas of research interest and use ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/cooling-buildings-worldwideDeep-learning technique reveals “invisible” objects in the dark
reproduction (bottom right) of the original object. Courtesy of the researchers In a study published today in ... Physical Review Letters, the researchers reconstructed transparent objects from images of those objects, ... A researcher can “train” such a network to perform computations faster and more accurately, by feeding it ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/deep-learning-technique-reveals-%E2%80%9Cinvisible%E2%80%9D-objects-darkFour MIT faculty members receive U.S. Department of Energy early career awards
selected for their 2020 Early Career Research Program. The list includes four faculty members from MIT: ... Ronald Fernando Garcia Ruiz, assistant professor of physics and researcher in the Laboratory for Nuclear ... professor of physics and researcher in the Center for Theoretical Physics within the LNS; and Wim van Rees, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/four-mit-faculty-members-receive-us-department-energy-early-career-awardsAlum Ronan McGovern Brings Innovative Beer Filtration System to Market
focus on bringing to market technologies that originated from their research at MIT. This is the third ... year of the program, which was created by Yoel Fink, the director of MIT’s Research Laboratory of ... allowed him to work on identifying the path to commercial value while continuing to work on his research ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/alum-ronan-mcgovern-brings-innovative-beer-filtration-system-marketCleaning Water Without the Grid
MIT researchers have developed a solar-powered desalination system that could significantly ... “detective work.” That’s what he, MIT PhD candidate Natasha Wright, and their fellow researchers did for two ... Their research team, sponsored by the MIT Tata Center for Technology and Design and its partner, the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/cleaning-water-without-gridTurning emissions into fuel
MIT researchers have developed a new system that could potentially be used for converting power ... PhD 1024.jpg XiaoYu Wu pictured with the reactor his team used for the research. MIT researchers have ... the researchers use a stream of fuel such as hydrogen or methane. These materials are so readily ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/turning-emissions-fuelA new way to find better battery materials
storage and delivery devices such as fuel cells, researchers say. MIT-Lithium-Electrolytes-A1-1024.jpg ... researchers found that measuring how vibrations of sound move through the lattice could reveal how well ions ... recent graduate John Bachman PhD ’17, and Research Scientist Livia Giordano, along with nine others at ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-way-find-better-battery-materialsA new way to mend a broken heart
of researchers is hoping to halt the progression from heart attack to heart failure with a small ... involving a team of researchers from MIT, Harvard University, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Trinity ... College Dublin, Advanced Materials and BioEngineering Research (AMBER) Center, and National University of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-way-mend-broken-heart“Nanofiber yarn” makes for stretchy, protective artificial tissue
The researchers coated the yarn with living cells, including muscle and mesenchymal stem cells, which ... naturally grow and align along the yarn, into patterns similar to muscle tissue. The researchers found the ... the yarn multiple times. In the future, the researchers envision doctors could line patients’ damaged ...
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