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New model predicts how shoe properties affect a runner’s performance

is a researcher holding a 3-D-printed midsole, designed based on the model’s predictions. Credit: ... model, the researchers can simulate how a runner’s gait changes with different shoe types. They can then ... designs, including most commercially available running shoes. For this reason, the researchers envision the ...

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What happens during the first moments of butterfly scale formation

signature shimmer. MIT researchers have now captured the initial moments during a butterfly’s metamorphosis, ... as an individual scale begins to develop this ridged pattern. The researchers used advanced imaging ... adult Painted Lady butterfly. Scalebar 1mm. Image: Courtesy of the researchers The team continuously ...

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Interactive mouthpiece opens new opportunities for health data, assistive technology, and hands-free interactions

researchers have now engineered “MouthIO,” a dental brace that can be fabricated with sensors and feedback ... researchers created a plugin for the modeling software Blender to help users tailor the device to fit a dental ... Polycam and upload that to Blender. Using the researchers’ plugin within this program, you can clean up ...

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To design better water filters, MIT engineers look to manta rays

researchers were designing face masks to filter out the virus. Since then, Mao has shifted focus to study ... letting the particles stream out through the gills. The researchers realized that the ray’s filtering ... the researchers inserted 3D-printed structures resembling the grooved plates that run along the floor ...

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New filter captures and recycles aluminum from manufacturing waste

simultaneously reducing waste. The researchers demonstrated the membrane’s performance in lab-scale experiments ... production process. Courtesy of the researchers.   “This membrane technology not only cuts down on hazardous ... ways that the industry can be more efficient, and we found cryolite waste hadn’t been well-researched ...

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Imaging technique removes the effect of water in underwater scenes

be explored virtually. The researchers have dubbed the new tool “SeaSplat,” in reference to both its ... with SeaSplat is on the right. Image: Courtesy of the researchers “With SeaSplat, it can model ... 3D models of an underwater scene,” says MIT graduate student Daniel Yang. The researchers applied ...

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Merging AI and underwater photography to reveal hidden ocean worlds

The LOBSTgER research initiative at MIT Sea Grant explores how generative AI can expand scientific ... Credit: Keith Ellenbogen A new research initiative developing at MIT Sea Grant, called LOBSTgER — short ... external data or models. LOBSTgER’s generative AI builds upon real photography, expanding the researchers ...

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Vapor-collection technology saves water while clearing the air

developed at MIT by the Varanasi Research Group is hoping to reduce both the water needs at these plants and ... prototype systems, first on MIT’s natural-gas-powered cogeneration plant and then on MIT’s nuclear research ... power plant cooling towers. The project began as part of doctoral thesis research of Maher Damak PhD ...

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MIT engineers create an energy-storing supercapacitor from ancient materials

supply. The two materials, the researchers found, can be combined with water to make a supercapacitor — an ... alternative to batteries — that could provide storage of electrical energy. As an example, the MIT researchers ... no) to the cost of the foundation and still providing the needed structural strength. The researchers ...

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Solar-powered desalination system requires no extra batteries

Groundwater National Desalination Research Facility (BGNDRF) in Alamogordo, New Mexico. The system is ... Global Engineering and Research (GEAR) Center at MIT. “Being able to make drinking water with renewables, ... reservoirs and is more prevalent than fresh groundwater resources. The researchers see brackish groundwater ...

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FIREFLI uses light to sense poor blood supply in body tissue, can provide earlier diagnosis for Acute Mesenteric Ischemia

costly, and invasive. A new approach introduced by researchers from MIT and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, ... complete the circuit, turning on the LED. Credit: Courtesy of the researchers The bioinspired, ingestible ...

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How to Make a “Perfect” Solar Absorber

reradiated by the material, and thus lost to the conversion process. Now researchers at MIT say they have ... Urbana-Champaign, who was not involved in this research. “In this paper, the authors demonstrated, in a system ... team also included MIT research scientist Ivan Celanovic and former graduate students Yi Yeng, ...

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Wrinkle Predictions

microlenses.   MIT-Patterning-Fingerprints460x305.jpg MIT researchers have developed a mathematical equation ... researchers say the theory, reported this week in the journal Nature Materials, may help to generally explain ... depending on the forces that act on that surface,” Dunkel explains. In computer simulations, the researchers ...

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Danielle Zurovcik

Danielle Zurovcik (SM ‘07, PhD ‘11) conducted her doctoral research on a high-tech medical device, ... device to constantly overcome its own inefficiencies.”   As part of her master’s degree research in the ... energy needed to power it. After years of research, experience, and experimentation, she understood that ...

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Domitilla Del Vecchio Bridges Math, Engineering, and Biology

afterward.” After getting her master’s, Del Vecchio worked in Rome for a year as a researcher before heading ... continuing her research on robotic control systems, and working on algorithms to guide automated vehicles ... training, Del Vecchio retained a fascination with biology. She started doing collaborative research with ...

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Scientists Tune Polymer Material’s Transparency

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, says the researchers’ experimental polymer structure and ... incoming light.  The research team — which includes López Jiménez; Pedro Reis, the Gilbert W. Winslow CD ... right.”  The researchers set out to fabricate a type of soft color composite — a material that changes ...

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