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Air pollution can put a dent in solar power

instruments, Peters worked with MIT associate professor of mechanical engineering Tonio Buonassisi and three ... Ian Marius Peters, now an MIT research scientist, was working on solar energy research in ... citizens snapped them up to aid their breathing. MIT-Hazy-Photocells_1024.jpg Results have just been ...

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Technique identifies electricity-producing bacteria

adds Cullen Buie, associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. “Thus, a tool that allows you ... other words, these microbes can actually produce electricity. MIT ... laboratory conditions. Now MIT engineers have developed a microfluidic technique that can quickly process ...

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To make mini-organs grow faster, give them a squeeze

into more specialized cells. Ming Guo, associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, says that ... Chu | MIT News Office Horizontal Researchers led by Associate Professor Ming Guo have shown that ... like ideas, information, and even infection. Now researchers at MIT and Boston Children’s Hospital have ...

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Can an LED-Filled “Robot Garden” Make Coding More Accessible?

and Shuhei Miyashita, and members of MIT Professor Sangbae Kim’s Biomimetics Robotics Lab, including ... lights and more than 100 origami robots that can crawl, swim, and blossom like flowers. A team from MIT ... says CSAIL Director Daniela Rus, the Andrew (1956) and Erna Viterbi Professor of Electrical Engineering ...

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Researchers Unravel Secrets of Hidden Waves

these waves,” says Thomas Peacock, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, and one of ...   MIT-Internal-Waves-1024.jpg These subsurface waves can tower more than 500 meters high, and generate powerful turbulence. ... Duda, a professor at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution who was not involved in this research, says ...

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Electron-phonon interactions affect heat dissipation in computer chips

MIT engineers say cellphones, laptops, and other electronic devices may face a higher risk of ... Nature Communications. MIT-Phonon-Scattering.jpg In their experiments, the team used precisely timed ... graduate student in mechanical engineering at MIT. “If phonons are scattered by electrons, they’re not as ...

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A new way to find better battery materials

L. Chandler | MIT News Office Collaboration International Horizontal Professor Yang Shao-Horn has ... storage and delivery devices such as fuel cells, researchers say. MIT ... developed by a team led by W.M. Keck Professor of Energy Yang Shao-Horn, graduate student Sokseiha Muy, ...

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A new way to remove ice buildup without power or chemicals

new system is described today in the journal Science Advances, in a paper by MIT associate professor ... environmentally harmful. Now, MIT researchers have developed a completely passive, solar-powered way of combating ... ice buildup. MIT-Solar-Deicing-1024.jpg Passive solar-powered system could prevent freezing on ...

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Counting cells may shed light on how cancer spreads

can travel to other organs, seeding new tumors called metastases. MIT engineers have now developed ... David H. Koch Professor of Engineering in the departments of Biological Engineering and Mechanical ... techniques.” MIT-circulate-tumor-02-press.jpg A schematic of the blood exchange technique used to calculate the ...

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Untangling the Mechanics of Knots

intuition and tradition. MIT-Untangling-Knot1024.jpg Now researchers at MIT and Pierre et Marie Curie ... Gilbert W. Winslow Career Development Associate Professor in Civil Engineering and Mechanical Engineering, ... Foundation. Monday, September 7, 2015 Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office red Horizontal A new model developed by ...

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New plant-derived composite is tough as bone and hard as aluminum

plastics. Now, an MIT team has engineered a composite made mostly from cellulose nanocrystals mixed with ... they never had before,” says A. John Hart, professor of mechanical engineering. “If we can replace some ... their results today in the journal Cellulose. MIT-Printing-Cellulose-02-press.jpg The team hit on ...

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Designing cleaner vehicles

Mehrotra joined Professor Sangbae Kim’s Biomimetic Robotics lab — a decision further cemented a passion for ... mechanical design and sparked an interest in vehicle design. He now heads up a “revamping” of the MIT ... magazine, MechE Connects. For more stories, and for past issues, please visit  meche.mit.edu/magazine.  Sunday, ...

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Adi Mehrotra

junior year, Mehrotra joined Professor Sangbae Kim’s Biomimetic Robotics lab — a decision further ... a “revamping” of the MIT Electric Vehicle Team (EVT), a student-led research team that is probing the future of ... magazine, MechE Connects. For more stories, and for past issues, please visit  meche.mit ...

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Farmers use $60 billion of pesticides each year. 2 MIT scientists have developed a new technology that could cut that number in half

plantation in Spain. Credit: Agzen Kripa Varanasi had just started his first year as an assistant professor ... prizes such as runner-up awards at the  MIT $100K  and  Rice Business Plan  competitions. Over-spraying ... says Daniel Snow, a research professor at the University of Nebraska—Lincoln’s Water Sciences Lab. The ...

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2.009 makes its “Move!” onstage

course co-instructors Ellen Roche, associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, and Josh ... presentations of 2.009 (Product Engineering Processes). MIT-2009-Final Presentations-01-press_0 2.jpg ... A full-capacity audience waits in Kresge Auditorium for the MIT 2.009 Prototype Launch to begin. The 2022 theme ...

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Teaching With Digital Technology Award winners recognized for their innovations

instructors who have effectively used digital technology to improve teaching and learning at MIT. The goal is ... to recognize instructors for their innovations and to give the MIT community the opportunity to learn ... Chancellor. 2020 Awards As a result of the pandemic and in honor of the dedication of MIT faculty to the ...

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Josh Randolph: Taking care of others as an EMT and ROTC leader

“I always wanted to be in public service, serve my community, and serve my country,” says the MIT ... mechanical engineering major. In April, MIT senior Josh Randolph will race 26.2 miles across Concord, ... he’s done in his time at MIT, and he’s never missed a race. “I want to do things that are challenging ...

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Slowing the Spread

Evelyn Wang, Gail E. Kendall Professor and head of MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. “This ... Class of 1960 Fellow and professor of mechanical engineering, and his team at MIT Project Manus were one ... Edward J. Poitras Professor in Medical Engineering and Science at MIT, director of MIT’s Institute for ...

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Jordan Malone

a passion for engineering, the young Denton, Texas, native made it a goal to study engineering at MIT. In ... engineer. And if you want to be the best, you’ve got to train with the best,” Malone says. The MIT senior ... to improve the sport in the future. Although Malone set his sights on MIT at an early age, his love ...

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3 Questions: Asegun Henry on five “grand thermal challenges” to stem the tide of global warming

need to be made in order to stem the rise of global warming. MIT News spoke with Asegun Henry, the lead ... author and the Robert N. Noyce Career Development Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical ... a species may not survive Mother Earth’s clapback. Monday, August 10, 2020 Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office ...

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