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This 3D printer doesn’t gloss over the...

December 2, 2020

Shape, color, and gloss. Those are an object’s three most salient visual features. Currently, 3D printers can reproduce shape and color reasonably well. Gloss, however, remains a challenge. That’s because 3D printing hardware isn’t designed to deal with the different viscosities of the varnishes that lend surfaces a glossy or matte look. MIT researcher Michael Foshey and his colleagues may have a solution. They’ve developed a combined hardware and software printing system that uses off-the-shelf varnishes to finish objects...

3 Questions: Hessam AzariJafari on mitigating climate...

December 1, 2020

Extreme heat events — like those seen in California in 2020 — are expected to worsen over the century due to climate change and urban heat islands (UHIs). Cities will likely experience the brunt of those effects. To help cities mitigate UHI and extreme heat, MIT Concrete Sustainability Hub postdoc Hessam AzariJafari is studying one of the most abundant urban surfaces: pavements. He has found that it’s possible to significantly lower urban air temperatures and greenhouse gas emissions by...

Study examines role of mobile health technology...

December 1, 2020

A 60-person task force, including MIT Lincoln Laboratory researchers, has published a study reviewing mobile health (mHealth) technologies and examining their use in monitoring and mitigating the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic. They found that mHealth technologies are viable options to monitor Covid-19 patients and predict symptom escalation for earlier intervention. The study, “Can mHealth Technology Help Mitigate the Effects of the COVID 19 Pandemic?”, is published in the IEEE Open Journal of Engineering in Medicine and Biology. The...

Sensing the body at all scales

December 1, 2020

Sensors that track everything from infection in the lungs to WiFi usage on a busy university campus are poised to enhance our understanding of, and approach to improving, human health at many levels — a trend that has been accelerated by the challenges of the Covid-19 pandemic, researchers and experts said at the 2020 SENSE.nano Symposium. Videos from the event are now available online, so anyone can view the presentations and panel discussions featuring leaders from research and industry,...

Leveraging the power of neurodiversity

December 1, 2020

How does a small startup go head to head with the country’s largest IT consulting firms, growing rapidly and securing clients like AIG, Berkshire Hathaway, and WarnerMedia in the process? For the quality engineering startup Ultranauts, the answer lies in the power of its cognitively diverse workforce. More than 75 percent of the company’s employees are on the autism spectrum, allowing Ultranauts to tap into the unique strengths of each team member as it helps large enterprises and mature startups...

Fikile Brushett is looking for new ways...

December 1, 2020

Fikile Brushett, an MIT associate professor of chemical engineering, had an unusual source of inspiration for his career in the chemical sciences: the character played by Nicolas Cage in the 1996 movie “The Rock.” In the film, Cage portrays an FBI chemist who hunts down a group of rogue U.S. soldiers who have commandeered chemical weapons and taken over the island of Alcatraz. “For a really long time, I really wanted to be a chemist and work for the...

Slowing the spread of Covid-19

November 30, 2020

An air of uncertainty descended on MIT’s campus in early March. Whispers and rumors about campus closing down swirled in the hallways. Students convened en masse on Killian Court to dance, hug, and cry as they were told they had until the end of the week to vacate campus. Within days, the Infinite Corridor’s usual stream of activity and noise was silenced. While MIT’s dorms and classrooms became unnervingly quiet, there was a thrum of activity among faculty and...

Expressing our immigration stories

November 30, 2020

The first issue of Rooted: A Sense of Belonging pays tribute to individual immigration stories through a collection of art, poems, and photos. Each piece breathes life into raw and personal accounts of adversity, resilience, and pride of Asian American and Pacific Islander heritage. “Our contributors have poured their dreams, hardships, and success into artistic expression,” says Olivia Yao ’20, magazine editor and recent MIT alum. “I encourage everyone to read every single piece in this publication. Embrace their...

An escape route for seafloor methane

November 30, 2020

Methane, the main component of natural gas, is the cleanest-burning of all the fossil fuels, but when emitted into the atmosphere it is a much more potent greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide. By some estimates, seafloor methane contained in frozen formations along the continental margins may equal or exceed the total amount of coal, oil, and gas in all other reservoirs worldwide. Yet, the way methane escapes from these deep formations is poorly understood. In particular, scientists have been...

3 Questions: Joshua Cohen on the qualities...

November 30, 2020

Joshua Cohen, a member of the MIT Task Force on the Work of the Future Research Advisory Board and a distinguished senior fellow in law, philosophy, and political science at the University of California at Berkeley recently wrote a research brief, “Good Jobs,” that describes the qualities inherent in “good jobs” and how they fit into a larger world of education, training, consumption, finance, firm organization, and worker representation. Here, Cohen describes some of the main takeaways from his brief,...

Computer-aided creativity in robot design

November 30, 2020

So, you need a robot that climbs stairs. What shape should that robot be? Should it have two legs, like a person? Or six, like an ant? Choosing the right shape will be vital for your robot’s ability to traverse a particular terrain. And it’s impossible to build and test every potential form. But now an MIT-developed system makes it possible to simulate them and determine which design works best. You start by telling the system, called RoboGrammar, which...

3 Questions: Using fabric to “listen” to...

November 25, 2020

Earlier this month a team of MIT researchers sent samples of various high-tech fabrics, some with embedded sensors or electronics, to the International Space Station. The samples (unpowered for now) will be exposed to the space environment for a year in order to determine a baseline for how well these materials survive the harsh environment of low Earth orbit. The hope is that this work could lead to thermal blankets for spacecraft, that could act as sensitive detectors for...

Second annual MIT Science Bowl Invitational takes...

November 24, 2020

Researchers in the Baker group at MIT are studying the mechanisms of proteins that catalyze protein unfolding, which often involves large conformational changes. Which technique can be used to actively monitor these protein conformational changes? A) Förster Resonance Energy Transfer B) Fluorescence In Situ Hybridization C) Fluorescence Recovery After Photobleaching D) Mass Spectrometry If you chose A, you might have stood a chance at the second annual MIT Science Bowl Invitational. On Nov. 7, 192 high school students logged...

Center to advance predictive simulation research established...

November 24, 2020

Understanding the degradation of materials in extreme environments is a scientific problem with major technological applications, ranging from spaceflight to industrial and nuclear safety. Yet it presents an intrinsic challenge: Researchers cannot easily reproduce these environments in the laboratory or observe essential degradation processes in real-time. Computational modeling and simulation have consequently become indispensable tools in helping to predict the behavior of complex materials across a range of strenuous conditions At MIT, a new research effort aims to advance...

Six MIT faculty elected 2020 AAAS Fellows

November 24, 2020

Six MIT faculty members have been elected as fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). The new fellows are among a group of 489 AAAS members elected by their peers in recognition of their scientifically or socially distinguished efforts to advance science. A virtual induction ceremony for the new fellows will be held on Feb. 13, 2021. Nazli Choucri is a professor of political science, a senior faculty member at the Center of International Studies (CIS), and...

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