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Hybrid System Could Cut Coal-Plant Emissions in Half

a growing and increasingly industrialized world population. Now, researchers at MIT have come up with a plan ... system proposed by MIT researchers. At the bottom, steam (pink arrows) passes through pulverized coal, ... the stream of gas in order to carry out CCS. One of the big questions answered by this new research ...

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New Concept Turns Battery Technology Upside-Down

operation, says a team of MIT researchers who have made a demonstration version of the new battery. Liquid ... a membrane — are not a new concept, and some members of this research team unveiled an earlier concept three ... over. Image courtesy of researchers   Chiang describes the new approach as something like a “concept ...

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Rohit Karnik seeks sustainable solutions through nanotechnology

In Rohit Karnik’s lab, researchers are searching for tiny solutions to some of the world’s biggest ... challenges. MIT-Karnik-Rohit-1_1024.jpg “I try to guide my research by... asking myself the question, ‘What ... Karnik’s group is also tackling issues of water purification. The researchers are designing filters from ...

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Drive-by monitoring for urban streetlights

researchers at MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering thought. And after several iterations of software ... and hardware developed in the lab and field-tested on city streets, the researchers have found that ... who is now a researcher at IBM’s T.J. Watson Research Center; Stephen Ho PhD ’04, a research scientist ...

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Watering the world

foundation for our research project: Could we make drippers that operate on much lower pressures, and thus ... cut the pumping power and the capital costs?” To do this, the researchers set out to characterize the ... computing program that enables researchers to change the dimensions of a model to produce a change in ...

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Engineers identify key to albatross’ marathon flight

The researchers solved those complicated equations using a method called numerical optimization. They ... air. As an albatross only flies within the first 5 to 20 meters above the water, the researchers ... the albatrosses are doing it that way.” This research was funded, in part, by a Fulbright Science and ...

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New 3-D printer is 10 times faster than commercial counterparts

Image: Chelsea Turner (using images provided by the researchers) The key to the team’s nimble design lies ... market opportunities.” Hart and Jamison Go SM ’15, a former graduate researcher in Hart’s lab, have ... to 10 times faster than the commercial printers that we benchmarked.” A 3-D view The researchers ...

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MIT robot combines vision and touch to learn the game of Jenga

physics.” He says the tactile learning system the researchers have developed can be used in applications ... The researchers tested their approach against other state-of-the-art machine learning algorithms, in ... the researchers of the way the robot would learn in the real world. “We provide to these algorithms ...

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Exotic “second sound” phenomenon observed in pencil lead

behave this way in our day-to-day surroundings. But now MIT researchers have observed this seemingly ... stuff of pencil lead. MIT-Second-Sound_1024.jpg Researchers find evidence that heat moves through ... interdisciplinary collaboration between Nelson’s research group and that of Gang Chen, the Carl Richard Soderberg ...

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Engineers 3-D print flexible mesh for ankle and knee braces

— a common cause of injury — while allowing the joint to move freely in other directions. The researchers ... Sebastian Pattinson, who conducted the research as a postdoc at MIT. Pattinson, now on the faculty at ... and helped it to mimic soft tissue. The researchers printed a long strip of the mesh and tested its ...

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Oobleck’s weird behavior is now predictable

researchers accurately simulated how oobleck turns from a liquid to a solid and back again, under various ... Baumgarten joined the group, the researchers started work on a model to describe how saturated wet sand ... arbitrary way,” Baumgarten says. Wheels spinning The researchers incorporated this new variable into their ...

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Two-legged robot mimics human balance while running and jumping

approach, the researchers were able to remotely maintain the robot’s balance as it jumped and walked in ... mimic the motions of an operator via teleoperation, an approach that the researchers say comes with ... between the two models. The researchers tested this balance feedback model, first on a simple inverted ...

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System provides cooling with no electricity

magic, but a new system designed by researchers at MIT and in Chile can do exactly that. The device, ... place (left) and without it (right). Image courtesy of the researchers The key to the functioning of ... cooling effect. There has been a lot of research on ways to minimize heat loss, says Wang, who is the Gail ...

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Engineers 3D print soft, rubbery brain implants

a professor of mechanical engineering and of civil and environmental engineering, the research team has now ... researchers were to feed this polymer into a 3D printer in its liquid form, it would simply bleed across the ... crack. So the researchers then remixed the nanofibers with a solution of water and an organic solvent, ...

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Engineers put tens of thousands of artificial brain synapses on a single chip

mimic the information-transmitting synapses in the human brain. The researchers borrowed from principles ... the internet, or the cloud.” This research was funded, in part, by the MIT Research Support Committee ... funds, the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab, Samsung Global Research Laboratory, and the National Science ...

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Solar-powered system extracts drinkable water from “dry” air

Researchers at MIT and elsewhere have significantly boosted the output from a system that can ... a potentially widespread product is greatly improved, the researchers say. Wang says the team felt that “It’s ... daily water productivity. Future research lies in improving this prototype system with low cost ...

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An origami-inspired medical patch for sealing internal injuries

researchers are working with clinicians and surgeons to optimize the design for surgical use, and they ... a series of demonstrations, the researchers showed that the new bioadhesive strongly adheres to animal ... the body to suture tissues and organs. Image courtesy of the researchers.  The researchers envision ...

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Navigating beneath the Arctic ice

of Naval Research, the team participated in ICEX — or Ice Exercise — 2020, a three-week program ... a variety of research projects and missions. A strategic waterway  The rapidly changing environment in the ... Arctic has wide-ranging impacts. In addition to giving researchers more information about the impact of ...

https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/navigating-beneath-arctic-ice-0

Physicists bring human-scale object to near standstill, reaching a quantum state

researchers cooled has an estimated mass of about 10 kilograms, and comprises about 1x10 26, or nearly ... 1 octillion, atoms. The researchers took advantage of the ability of the Laser Interfrometer Gravitational-wave ... student Chris Whittle, postdoc Evan Hall, research scientist Sheila Dwyer, Dean of the School of Science ...

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Physics and the machine learning “black box”

with mechanical engineering students, researchers, and faculty to better understand the challenges and ... engineering-centric research; yet they are lacking the tools to make the most out of it,” says Barbastathis. ... principles without having to convert themselves to being full-time data scientists or AI researchers ...

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