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Transforming Facade Design: UHPC Takes Center Stage
As the demand for innovative and sustainable construction materials grows, Ultra High Performance Concrete (UHPC) has emerged as…
3D Scanner Selection: Nine Essential Questions to Consider
3D scanners are becoming more easily accessible, mostly for two reasons:
There are smartphone apps the can use cameras or…
Helping the transportation sector adapt to a changing world
MIT PhD student Nick Caros works with transit agencies to understand how workers’ transportation needs have changed in the age of…
MIT Libraries staff honored with 2023 Infinite Mile Awards
Twenty MIT Libraries employees were recognized with Infinite Mile Awards in June 2023 for providing valuable service to the MIT…
Brady Weissbourd named Klingenstein-Simons Fellow
Jellyfish make new neurons constantly throughout life. MIT professor Brady Weissbourd won a fellowship to explore how these tiny,…
Harnessing synthetic biology to make sustainable alternatives to…
The startup Visolis, founded by MIT alumnus Deepak Dugar, is using synthetic biology to decarbonize the production of everything…
SE Radio 573: Varun Singh on Evolution of Internet Protocols
In this episode, Varun Singh, Chief Products and Technology Officer at Daily.co, speaks with host Nikhil Krishna about the…
Addressing food insecurity in arid regions with an open-source…
MIT D-Lab and the Building Technology program released an open-source design for a novel forced-air evaporative cooling chamber…
Understanding viral justice
Author and African American studies scholar Ruha Benjamin spoke with MIT Libraries about discriminatory design in technology and…
Armando Solar-Lezama named inaugural Distinguished College of…
MIT professor Armando Solar-Lezama has been named the inaugural Distinguished College of Computing Professor. Established in the…
System tracks movement of food through global humanitarian supply…
MIT Lincoln Laboratory is developing a barcode-based system to track the movement of food items through the global humanitarian…
It takes three to tango: transcription factors bind DNA, protein, and…
Transcription factors are known to bind DNA and protein, but new research shows many of them also bind RNA. The work, from MIT…
Study finds tracking brain waves could reduce post-op complications
MIT researchers analyzed the EEG patterns of patients under general anesthesia and found brain wave signatures that could help…
Coloring outside the lines
MIT Associate Professor Mathias Kolle is diving into the microstructure of butterfly wings and other optically interesting…
AI helps household robots cut planning time in half
Researchers from MIT CSAIL came up with PIGINet, a novel machine learning-based system that improves household robots' efficiency…
Study finds ChatGPT boosts worker productivity for some writing tasks
A new MIT study highlights the potential of generative AI for certain types of writing assignments in the workplace.
Angela Koehler appointed faculty director of the Deshpande Center
Professor Angela Koehler has been appointed as the faculty director of the MIT Deshpande Center for Technological Innovation. The…
Scientists pinpoint where thousands of individual proteins are made…
A new technology called RIBOmap, developed at MIT, can give researchers valuable insight into how protein production in animal…
3 Questions: Justin Reich on the state of teacher speech in America
A new season of the podcast Teachlab from MIT Teaching Systems Lab, called “Teacher Speech and the New Divide,” explores issues…
MIT researchers to lead a new center for continuous mRNA manufacturing
A three-year research program led by faculty at MIT aims to design the world’s first fully integrated, continuous mRNA…
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