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Separating the good from the bad in bacteria
Mitsui Career Development Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT, says a bacterium’s ... — a time-intensive laboratory procedure. Now MIT researchers have developed a new microfluidic device that could ... medication and understand quickly the health of the patient and where the disease is going.” Buie, MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/separating-good-bad-bacteriaThe ocean’s hidden waves show their power
Thomas Peacock, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, has teamed with researchers from ... China Sea, are produced. The new findings come from a team effort involving MIT and several other ... associate professor of oceanography at the University of Washington who was involved in the related field ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/ocean%E2%80%99s-hidden-waves-show-their-powerSolving the polar climate conundrum
the Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Oceanography at MIT, and his group investigated this phenomenon ... may even be gaining sea ice. Now, MIT researchers have a better understanding of the elemental ... explain why the Arctic has warmed faster than the Antarctic. In MIT computer simulations of the ocean and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/solving-polar-climate-conundrumTransparent, gel-based robots can catch and release live fish
associate professor of mechanical engineering and civil and environmental engineering at MIT, and graduate ... Engineers at MIT have fabricated transparent, gel-based robots that move when water is pumped in ... co-authors include MIT graduate students Shaoting Lin and Chu Ma, postdoc Mahdi Takaffoli, and associate ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/transparent-gel-based-robots-can-catch-and-release-live-fishTechnique spots warning signs of extreme events
systems with a complex and ever-changing mix of players and pieces. rogue wave 1024.jpg Engineers at MIT ... MIT have devised a framework for identifying key patterns that precede an extreme event. The framework ... extreme events occur,” says Themistoklis Sapsis, associate professor of mechanical and ocean engineering ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/technique-spots-warning-signs-extreme-eventsTeaching robots how to move objects
Manipulation and Mechanisms Laboratory at MIT (known as MCube Lab) under Assistant Professor Alberto ... graduate student Maria Bauza, who served as task-planning lead for the MIT-Princeton Team, the moment was ... in Barcelona. During a year as a visiting student at MIT, Bauza was able to put her interest in ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/teaching-robots-how-move-objectsShowcasing solutions for land, sea, space — and everywhere in between
mechanical engineering research being conducted at MIT,” says Nick Fang, a professor of mechanical ... an associate professor of mechanical engineering. By understanding how liquids move in zero gravity ... one of the 44 participants in this year’s MIT Mechanical Engineering Research Exhibition (MERE), which ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/showcasing-solutions-land-sea-space-%E2%80%94-and-everywhere-betweenNew polymer films conduct heat instead of trapping it
Soderberg Professor of Power Engineering at MIT, and a senior co-author on the paper. “Our bigger vision is, ... a Styrofoam coffee cup, both manufactured from polymer materials that are excellent at trapping heat. Now MIT ... Li from MIT, and Zhang Jiang of Argonne National Laboratory. In 2010, the team reported success in ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-polymer-films-conduct-heat-instead-trapping-itSuper-strong surgical tape detaches on demand
Last year, MIT engineers developed a double-sided adhesive that could quickly and firmly stick ... organs,” says Xuanhe Zhao, professor of mechanical engineering and of civil and environmental engineering ... at MIT. “You put the adhesive on, and if for any reason you want to take it off, you can do so ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/super-strong-surgical-tape-detaches-demandMembrane around tumors may be key to preventing metastasis
Ming Guo, a lead author of the study and associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. Guo’s ... Collaboration Horizontal MIT engineers led by Associate Professor Ming Guo have found that a biological membrane ... basement membrane, a material that itself has been tricky for scientists to characterize. Now MIT engineers ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/membrane-around-tumors-may-be-key-preventing-metastasisCrystan 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 ... | Bottom Right: Crystan McLymore, left, with Giovanni Traverso, associate professor of mechanical ... Credit: Tony Pulsone In the lab of Giovanni Traverso, associate professor of mechanical engineering, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/crystan-mclymore-sm-%E2%80%9923-exceling-sea-and-labA climate window in the Southern Ocean
a lot of carbon and heat in the interior ocean,” says John Marshall, the Cecil and Ida Green Professor ... of Oceanography at MIT. “The Southern Ocean is the window by which the interior of the ocean connects ... to the atmosphere above.” Marshall and Kevin Speer, a professor of physical oceanography at Florida ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/climate-window-southern-ocean3D-printed metamaterials that stretch and fail by design
metamaterials have been lightweight options designed for stiffness and strength. New research from the MIT ... Development Professor and associate professor of mechanical engineering. In an open-access paper published ... study. Carton, a former postdoc in Portela’s lab, is now an assistant research professor in mechanical ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/3d-printed-metamaterials-stretch-and-fail-designHigh-speed videos show what happens when a droplet splashes into a pool
a drop of milk in mid-splash, taken by the late MIT professor Harold “Doc” Edgerton, who invented ... ubiquitous,” says study author Lydia Bourouiba, a professor in the MIT departments of Civil and Environmental ... launch them into the air. Now MIT scientists have taken high-speed videos of droplets splashing into ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/high-speed-videos-show-what-happens-when-droplet-splashes-poolAI-enabled control system helps autonomous drones stay on target in uncertain environments
adaptation,” says Navid Azizan, who is the Esther and Harold E. Edgerton Assistant Professor in the MIT ... 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 ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/ai-enabled-control-system-helps-autonomous-drones-stay-target-uncertain-environmentsA new way to “paint with light” to create radiant, color-changing items
“MorphoChrome,” developed at MIT, pairs software with a handheld device to make everyday objects ... like personal items, clothes, and artwork. Now MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence ... intelligence of nature,” says MIT Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) PhD student ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-way-%E2%80%9Cpaint-light%E2%80%9D-create-radiant-color-changing-itemsThe Power of Salt
Latif Jameel Professor of Water and Food at MIT, along with Mostafa Sharqawy of King Fahd University of ... MIT study investigates power generation from the meeting of river water and seawater. Where the ... according to a team of mechanical engineers at MIT. The researchers evaluated an emerging method of power ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/power-saltStents inspired by paper-cutting art can deliver drugs to the GI tract
an MIT assistant professor of mechanical engineering, a gastroenterologist at Brigham and Women’s ... structures, MIT engineers and their collaborators have designed a new type of stent that could be used to ... Babaee, an MIT research scientist, is the lead author of the paper, which appears today in Nature ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/stents-inspired-paper-cutting-art-can-deliver-drugs-gi-tractPushing the limits of athletic performance
Anette (Peko) Hosoi, professor and associate department head for operations in MIT’s Department of ... says. With that insight, Hosoi founded the Sports Technology Group, now known as MIT 3-Sigma Sports ... (formerly STE@M). MIT 3-Sigma Sports aims to solve the biggest engineering problems across sports. The ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/pushing-limits-athletic-performanceFaculty Highlight: Alexie Kolpak
“The behavior is influenced, and often dominated by, the interfaces,” says MIT assistant professor of ... completed his doctoral studies at MIT with Francis Wright Davis Professor of Physics John D. Joannopoulos. ... at MIT with Department of Materials Science and Engineering Professor Jeffrey C. Grossman. Kolpak’s ...
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