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Monitoring sleep positions for a healthy rest

September 11, 2020

MIT researchers have developed a wireless, private way to monitor a person’s sleep postures — whether snoozing on their back, stomach, or sides — using reflected radio signals from a small device mounted on a bedroom wall. The device, called BodyCompass, is the first home-ready, radio-frequency-based system to provide accurate sleep data without cameras or sensors attached to the body, according to Shichao Yue, who will introduce the system in a presentation at the UbiComp 2020 conference on Sept....

As information flows through brain’s heirarchy, higher...

September 10, 2020

To produce your thoughts and actions, your brain processes information in a hierarchy of regions along its surface, or cortex, ranging from “lower” areas that do basic parsing of incoming sensations to “higher” executive regions that formulate your plans for employing that newfound knowledge. In a new study, MIT neuroscientists seeking to explain how this organization emerges report two broad trends: In each of three distinct regions, information encoding or its inhibition was associated with a similar tug of...

MIT-led team to develop software to help...

September 10, 2020

On a moonless night on Aug. 28, 1859, the sky began to bleed. The phenomenon behind the northern lights had gone global: an aurora stretching luminous, rainbow fingers across time zones and continents illuminated the night sky with an undulating backdrop of crimson. From New England to Australia, people stood in the streets looking up with admiration, inspiration, and fear as the night sky shimmered in Technicolor. But the beautiful display came with a cost. The global telegraph system...

Covid-19 scientific leaders share expertise in new...

September 10, 2020

As the Covid-19 pandemic swept across the globe, bringing everyday life to a screeching halt, researchers at MIT and its affiliates ramped down much of their lab work and stopped teaching classes in person, but refused to come to a standstill. Instead, they changed tacks and took action investigating the many unknowns of Covid-19 and the virus that causes it (SARS-CoV-2), organizing pandemic responses, and communicating with the public and each other about what they knew. One result of...

A primer on viruses, vaccines, and therapies

September 10, 2020

Since the novel coronavirus SARS-Cov-2 emerged late last year, it has been virtually impossible to consume any news without encountering stories about the virus and how it spreads, potential treatments, and the development of new vaccines. This deluge of news can be overwhelming, especially for those who aren’t well-versed in virology or immunology. To help equip people to interpret the new information we learn about SARS-Cov-2 every day, Arup Chakraborty, the Robert T. Haslam Professor in Chemical Engineering at...

How hunting helped shape elite society

September 10, 2020

The Frankish king Charlemagne led armies in battle, united much of medieval Europe under his rule, and was crowned emperor by the pope. Nonetheless, he also had enough time on his hands to become an avid hunter, pursuing deer, wild boars, birds, and other game, often in forests and walled parks near his palaces. This was no idle hobby. For Charlemagne, hunting had numerous benefits, according to MIT historian Eric Goldberg. For one thing, Charlemagne used the practice to...

Four from MIT awarded 2021 New Horizons...

September 10, 2020

Three MIT faculty members and one alumna have been named winners of prizes awarded by the Breakthrough Prize Foundation, which honor early-career achievements in the fields of physics and mathematics. Physicists Tracy Slatyer and Netta Engelhardt will each receive the 2021 New Horizons in Physics Prize, an award of $100,000 that recognizes promising junior researchers who have produced important work in their field. Mathematicians Lisa Piccirillo and Nina Holden PhD ’18 will each receive the 2021 Maryam Mirzakhani New...

Digitizing supply chains to lift farmers out...

September 10, 2020

Millions of cocoa farmers live in poverty across western Africa. Over the years, these farmers have been forced to contend with geopolitical instability, predatory loan practices, and a general lack of information that hampers their ability to maximize yields and sell crops at fair prices. Other problems, such as deforestation and child labor, also plague the cocoa industry. For the last five years, however, cocoa supply chains in villages around the Ivory Coast, Cameroon, and Ghana have been transformed. A suite...

Instrumentation in a pandemic: How the Department...

September 9, 2020

Under regular circumstances, the Department of Chemistry’s Instrumentation Facility (DCIF) is a 24/7 operation that services nearly 100 individual research labs from not only the MIT community, but external universities and corporations alike, at a rate of approximately 300 users a month. In 2018, the DCIF benefited immensely from the generous support of alumni and friends who contributed to a fundraising drive to replace and renew outdated equipment in the facility. When the Covid-19 pandemic forced all on-campus activity to...

3D printing a miniature magnetic pump

September 9, 2020

A new miniature pump — compact, valveless, and operated magnetically — demonstrates the broad capabilities of devices manufactured by 3D printing. Measuring only 1 centimeter in volume, the pump was fabricated in 75 minutes in a single process using multiple materials that cost less than $3.89 per unit. It can move both liquids and gases using less power and experiencing less clogging than standard manufactured pumps of this size. One of the pump designs is the first demonstration of...

Winners of 2020 Teaching With Digital Technology...

September 9, 2020

On July 30, faculty and instructors across MIT were honored for their outstanding achievements in teaching with digital technology in an online ceremony hosted by Dean for Digital Learning Krishna Rajagopal and Vice Chancellor for Undergraduate and Graduate Education Ian A. Waitz. The student-nominated Teaching with Digital Technology Awards, co-sponsored by MIT Open Learning and the Office of the Vice Chancellor, celebrate Institute faculty and instructors who have made innovative, effective use of technology for teaching and learning. Launched in...

Velcro-like food sensor detects spoilage and contamination

September 9, 2020

MIT engineers have designed a Velcro-like food sensor, made from an array of silk microneedles, that pierces through plastic packaging to sample food for signs of spoilage and bacterial contamination. The sensor’s microneedles are molded from a solution of edible proteins found in silk cocoons, and are designed to draw fluid into the back of the sensor, which is printed with two types of specialized ink. One of these “bioinks” changes color when in contact with fluid of a...

MIT Media Lab charts a course for...

September 9, 2020

On a typical day, light floods through much of the MIT Media Lab building, with its see-through exterior, multistory atriums, and glass-walled interior workspaces. For the last year, members of the Media Lab community have been developing a community dialogue with the aim of making the lab’s culture and administration as transparent as its physical setting. Indeed, the Media Lab, known globally as an innovation center, is now involved in another innovation, this time an internal-facing one. It is...

School of Science grows by 10

September 8, 2020

Despite the upheaval caused by the coronavirus pandemic, 10 new faculty members have joined MIT in the departments of Biology; Chemistry; Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences; Mathematics; and Physics. The School of Science welcomes these new faculty, most of whom began their appointment July 1, amidst efforts to update education and research plans for the fall semester. They bring exciting and valuable new areas of strength and expertise to the Institute. Camilla Cattania is an earthquake scientist. She uses...

Modeling the impact of testing, tracing, and...

September 8, 2020

Testing, contact tracing, and quarantining infected people are all tools in the effort to mitigate the spread of Covid-19. So are mask-wearing and social distancing. But what impact does each have? A study co-authored by MIT researchers finds that robust testing, contact tracing, and quarantining by household can keep cases within the capacity of the health-care system — preventing a “second wave” — while allowing for the reopening of some economic activities. The paper, published Aug. 5 in Nature...

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