Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
MIT.nano: Education
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- MIT.nano: Education
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- 3:51
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
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- MIT.nano will be a 200,000-square-foot research facility for nanoscale research constructed at the very heart of the MIT campus. (Learn more about MIT.nano: http://bit.ly/1mZ8CUV)
The building will house state-of-the-art cleanroom, imaging, and prototyping facilities supporting research with nanoscale materials and processes — in fields including energy, health, life sciences, quantum sciences, electronics, and manufacturing.
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- MIT.nano: An Overview
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- 4:21
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
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- MIT.nano will be a 200,000-square-foot research facility for nanoscale research constructed at the very heart of the MIT campus. (Learn more about MIT.nano: http://bit.ly/1mZ8CUV)
The building will house state-of-the-art cleanroom, imaging, and prototyping facilities supporting research with nanoscale materials and processes — in fields including energy, health, life sciences, quantum sciences, electronics, and manufacturing.
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- Observe@MIT: Observing the sky at MIT
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- 4:17
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
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- Observe@MIT is a series of astronomical observation sessions led by astronomer and planetary science lecturer Amanda Bosh. Members of the MIT community are encouraged to come and observe the sky above and learn about space and what there is to see on that particular day or night. Everyone is welcome to participate by looking through one of the telescopes and having a conversation with peers and astronomy enthusiasts alike up on the roof of building 37, on MIT's campus in Cambridge, MA.
To be alerted when there is an Observe session, join their mailing list: http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listin...
Special thanks to the Alumni Class Funds for their contribution to Observe@MIT.
Video: Melanie Gonick/MIT
Images in order of appearance: MIT Wallace Astrophysical Observatory, Ryuga Hatano, Amanda Bosh and Amanda Bosh
Notebook sketches in order of appearance: Sophia Tigges, Nilu Zhao, Nilu Zhao, Yuqi Song and Jesse Thornburg
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- How bombardier beetles bomb
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- 1:58
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- For as long as researchers have been studying the bombardier beetle they have been baffled by their ability to produce an internal explosion in their abdomen and then expel a jet of boiling, irritating liquid towards their attackers while avoiding any physical damage. Now a team of researchers at MIT, the University of Arizona, and Brookhaven Laboratory have solved the conundrum. (Learn more: http://bit.ly/1GJygo0)
Using high-speed synchrotron X-ray imaging the researchers were able to "see" the inside of the abdomens of living bombardier beetles during explosions.
Video: Melanie Gonick/MIT
X-ray imagery: Ortiz Lab
External high-speed footage: "Bombardier Beetles," ©2012 MIT Harold E. Edgerton Collection, Courtesy of MIT Museum
Still image: Charles Hedgcock and Wendy Moore
Stock media provided by Pond5.com
Music sampled from "Union Hall Melody" by Blue Dot Sessions
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- Magnifying motion
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- 1:29
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- MIT researchers have now developed a technique to "see" vibrations that would otherwise be invisible to the naked eye, combining high-speed video with computer vision techniques. (Learn more about the technique: http://bit.ly/1K8t4en)
Video produced and edited: Melanie Gonick/MIT
Crane footage: Wadhwa, Rubinstein, Durand, and Freeman
Pipe and column footage: Justin Chen
Music sampled from "Zero" by Steve Combs
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- NailO: A thumbnail-mounted wireless trackpad
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- 2:09
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- Researchers at the MIT Media Lab are developing a new, wearable device that turns the user's thumbnail into a miniature, wireless track pad. NailO was inspired by the colorful stickers that people apply to their nails as a form of self-expression and style. The researchers envision the device could be extremely personable and therefore feel more like an extension of your body. Learn more: http://mitne.ws/1Jb57SE
Video: Melanie Gonick/MIT
Additional footage and images courtesy of Cindy Hsin-Liu Kao and Artem Dementyev
Music: "Red City Theme" by Blue Dot Sessions
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- Detecting rare cancer cells with sound waves
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- 1:41
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- A team of engineers from MIT, Penn State University, and Carnegie Mellon University is developing a novel way to isolate rare circulating tumor cells using sound waves to separate them from blood cells. (Learn more: http://bit.ly/19Z5eoq)
Video produced and edited by Melanie Gonick/MIT
Additional imagery courtesy of the researchers
Music: Sampled from "Music for Manatees" by Kevin MacLeod
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- Parkinson's diagnosis by typing on a keyboard
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- 2:20
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- In a new study from MIT, researchers show how analyzing people's keystrokes as they type can reveal a great deal of information about the state of their motor function. (Learn more: http://bit.ly/1Inaj5u)
Using the researchers' algorithm for analyzing keystroke patterns could lead to the diagnosis of diseases that impair motor function, such as Parkinson's disease, much earlier than is now possible.
Video: Melanie Gonick/MIT
Stock media provided by Pond5.com
Music sampled from "Air Hockey Season" by Chris Zabriskie
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- Wireless brain stimulation
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- 0:41
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- Calcium-dependent fluorescence recording of neurons that have not (left) or have been (right) heat-sensitized with the capsaicin receptor TRPV1. (Learn more: http://bit.ly/19eVoPY)
When neurons are excited with an alternating magnetic field ('ON'), evoked activity captured by fluorescence spiking in the video is observed. As neural activity diminishes between 'ON' cycles, another magnetic field pulse is applied for re-excitation. Movie is 5.4 times faster than real-time.
Clip provided by the researchers.
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- Mega Menger: Building a Menger Sponge at MIT
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- 5:22
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- MIT's origami club, OrigaMIT, led the effort to build a Level 3 Menger Sponge out of folded business cards. This was part of a larger, global project sponsored by Queen Mary University of London.
A Menger Sponge is a three-dimensional fractal, which can be made by taking a cube and cutting out a square section through the center in each of the three directions; then each of the resulting smaller cubes is cut out in the same way, and so on until you've removed infinitely many pieces. The Mega Menger Project aimed to construct the largest Menger Sponge ever built using only business cards.
Mega Menger: http://www.megamenger.com/
OrigaMIT: http://origamit.scripts.mit.edu/
Video: Melanie Gonick/MIT
Music sampled from "Anders" by Blue Dot Sessions
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- Marine shells may help develop responsive, transparent displays
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- 2:12
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- Scientists at MIT and Harvard University have identified two optical structures within the blue-rayed limpet's shell that give its blue-striped appearance. Such natural optical structures may serve as a design guid for engineering color-selective, controllable, transparent displays. (Learn more: http://bit.ly/181DKNV)
Video produced and edited by Melanie Gonick
Additional footage and imagery courtesy of the researchers
Music sampled from "Hallon" by Christian Bjoerklund
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- A simple way to make and reconfigure complex emulsions
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- 3:36
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
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- MIT researchers have devised a new way to make complex liquid mixtures, known as emulsions, that could have many applications in drug delivery, sensing, cleaning up pollutants, and performing chemical reactions. (Learn more about these complex emulsions: http://bit.ly/1akhMHC)
Video: Melanie Gonick/MIT
Additional imagery courtesy of Lauren Zarzar/Vishnu Sresht/Nature
Music sampled from "Treppe 3" by Rod Hamilton
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- In the Snow: MIT Winter 2015
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- 4:22
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
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- It's been an historic winter here in Boston/Cambridge, with record snowfalls and freezing cold temperatures. Watch MIT's Norm Magnuson discusses the challenges him and his crew face during such weather and how they've been able to keep the campus up and running.
Video: Melanie Gonick, MIT News
Additional images: Dominick Reuter
Music sampled from "Backed Vibes Clean"
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- Raindrops splash down on leaves, spread pathogens among plants
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- 3:47
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
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- A team of researchers from MIT and the University of Liege, in Belgium, have shown through high-speed images of raindrops splashing down on leaves that raindrops can act as a dispersing agent of contaminated droplets from one plant to another. (More on this research at: http://bit.ly/1DdF2lB and http://lbourouiba.mit.edu)
Historical weather records suggest that rainfall may scatter rust and other pathogens throughout a plant population, the mechanism by which this occurs has not be explored, until now.
Video: Melanie Gonick/MIT
High-speed splash images: Tristan Gilet and Lydia Bourouiba
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- Forces Frozen: Structures made from frozen fabrics
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- 3:21
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
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- Through the power of shape and curvature, very thin shells can achieve impressive strength and stiffness, even when they are made only from frozen water-soaked fabric. This workshop, aptly titled "Forces Frozen" seeks to push the boundaries of ice shells through design, experimentation and fabrication. (Learn more about Forces Frozen: http://forcesfrozen.tumblr.com/)
This MIT IAP workshop was sponsored by the MIT-SUTD Collaboration. (http://sutd.mit.edu/)
Video: Melanie Gonick/MIT
Still images of Heinz Isler courtesy of Safety third (https://safetythird.wordpress.com/2011/04/18/heinz-isler-ice-structures/)
Music from "Aqua 1" by Rod Hamilton
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- Predicting behavior of sickle cells
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- 2:51
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
- Description
- Patients with sickle cell disease often suffer from painful attacks known as vaso-occlusive crises, during which their sickle-shaped blood cells get stuck in tiny capillaries, depriving tissues of needed oxygen. Now, researchers from MIT, CMU and UPitt have developed a tiny microfluidic device that can analyze the behavior of blood from sickle cell patients. (Learn more: http://bit.ly/1DY0lbU)
Video Produced and Edited by Melanie Gonick/MIT
Additional footage courtesy of Ming Dao
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- Multifunctional fibers communicate with the brain
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- 2:52
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
- Description
- By producing complex multifunctional fibers that could be less than the width of a hair, MIT researchers have created a system that could deliver optical signals and drugs directly into the brain, along with a simultaneous electrical readout to continuously monitor the effects of the various inputs. (Learn more about the technology: http://bit.ly/1AGZo1l)
Video: Melanie Gonick/MIT
Animation and computer render courtesy of McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT/Sputnik Animation and Andres Canales
Music sampled from "The Dream" by Project5am
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- Rainfall can release aerosols, high-speed video shows
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- 1:30
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
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- Using high-speed cameras, MIT researchers observed that when a raindrop hits a surface, it traps tiny air bubbles at the point of contact. As in a glass of champagne, the bubbles then shoot upward, ultimately bursting from the drop in a fizz of aerosols. (Learn more: http://bit.ly/1wZYXy5)
The researchers suspect that in natural environments, aerosols may carry aromatic elements, along with bacteria and viruses stored in soil. These aerosols may be released during light or moderate rainfall, and then spread via gusts of wind.
Video produced and edited by Melanie Gonick/MIT
High-speed droplet footage by Youngsoo Joung
Rain falling and bubbles in glass footage: Pond5.com
Music sampled from "Running Waters" by Jason Shaw
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- Club Chem(istry) at MIT
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- 3:53
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
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- Within the Chemistry department at MIT a group of students, who call themselves Club Chem are ready to get you excited about science! (Learn more about Club Chem: http://web.mit.edu/clubchem/www/about.html)
Club Chem is extremely grateful to Mr. James K. Littwitz SB'42 and his wife Jane, who established an endowed fund to promote undergraduate activities within the chemistry department at MIT.
Special thanks to the Office of Engineering Outreach Programs' STEM Mentoring Program for connecting Club Chem with local middle school students excited about science and engineering. (Learn more about the STEM program: http://mit.edu/stem)
Video: Melanie Gonick/MIT
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- Recycling old batteries into solar cells
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- 3:14
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
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- A system proposed by researchers at MIT would recycle materials from discarded car batteries — a potential source of lead pollution — into new, long-lasting solar panels that provide emissions-free power. (Learn more: http://bit.ly/VzcyA8)
Video courtesy of the researchers
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- Detecting gases wirelessly with a smartphone
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- 1:37
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
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- MIT chemists have devised a new way to wirelessly detect hazardous gases and environmental pollutants, using a simple sensor that can be read by a smartphone. (Learn more about the sensor: http://bit.ly/1IuHPsp)
Video: Melanie Gonick/MIT
Additional footage provided by: ImagesFX Post, LLC
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- Splash! at MIT
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- 3:26
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
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- For one weekend each November, thousands of High School students flood MIT's campus to take classes taught by MIT students on anything and everything. (Learn more about Splash!: http://bit.ly/1Auycoj)
Video: Melanie Gonick/MIT
Music sampled from "Divider" by Chris Zabriskie
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- Complex 3-D DNA structures
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- 2:10
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
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- MIT biological engineers have created a new computer model that allows them to design the most complex three-dimensional DNA shapes ever produced, including rings, bowls, and geometric structures such as icosahedrons that resemble viral particles. (Learn more: http://mitne.ws/1yOHBaZ)
Video produced and edited by Melanie Gonick, MIT News
Computer renderings courtesy of Dr. Keyao Pan (LCBB)/Nature Communications
3D structural predictions were generated using CanDo by Dr. Stavros Gaitanaros (LCBB) based on sequence designs provided by Fei Zhang (Hao Tan Lab at Arizona State University).
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- Reading robots' minds
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- 3:30
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
- Description
- A new visualization system developed by MIT researchers, combines ceiling-mounted projectors with motion-capture technology and animation software to project a robot's intentions in real time. (Learn more about the system: http://bit.ly/1thQBSQ)
The researchers say the system may help speed up the development of self-driving cars, package-delivering drones, and other autonomous, route-planning vehicles.
Video: Melanie Gonick, MIT News
Additional footage and computer animations: Shayegan Omidshafiei
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- MIT Admissions Blogs
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- 5:48
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
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- For the past decade, the MIT Admissions Blogs have been a leader in student blogging. The blogs are written by MIT students and are completely uncensored.
MIT bloggers offer thoughts on anything from something that might interest a prospective student to how to handle the Institute's intense workload to much quirkier topics like how many cats live in dorms at one time or how to set a world record in the game of Mattress Dominos.
MIT Admissions: http://mitadmissions.org
Video: Melanie Gonick, MIT News
Music sampled from "Raro Bueno" by Chuzausen
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- Controllable nanoparticles
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- 2:01
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
- Description
- New technology developed by MIT and several other institutions could make it possible to track the position of nano particles as they move within the body or inside a cell. (Learn more about this technology: http://bit.ly/1rj5AHI)
At the same time, the nano particles could be manipulated precisely by applying a magnetic field to pull them along and control where they go.
Video produced and edited by Melanie Gonick/MIT News
Video clips courtesy of Ou Chen and Hendrik Herrman
Music sampled from "Amalgam" by BlacKisS
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- Untangling coiled cables
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- 3:03
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
- Description
- Engineers at MIT, along with computer scientists at Columbia University, have developed a method that predicts the pattern of coils and tangles that a cable may form when deployed onto a rigid surface. (Learn more about the method: http://bit.ly/1BDn5sh)
The research combined laboratory experiments with custom-designed cables, computer-graphics technology used to animate hair in movies, and theoretical analyses.
Video: Melanie Gonick, MIT News
Coiling experiment videos: Jawed, Da, Grinspun & Reis
Animated hair simulation: Weta Digital
Music sampled from "Casual Graphic Designer" by Bacalao
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- New drug-delivery capsule may replace injections
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- 1:36
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
- Description
- Researchers at MIT and Massachusetts General Hospital have devised a novel drug capsule coated with tiny needles that can inject drugs directly into the lining of the stomach after the capsule is swallowed. (Learn more about the capsule: http://mitsha.re/1qV6JVM)
Video: Carl Magnus Schoellhammer and Gio Traverso
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- MIT Haystack Observatory
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- 6:01
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
- Description
- MIT Haystack Observatory has existed for more than 50 years and conducts ground-breaking research in atmospheric science, astronomy, geodesy and related fields. (Learn more: http://www.haystack.mit.edu/)
Haystack scientists use radio waves to remotely observe everything from the upper atmosphere to the outer reaches of the universe.
Video: Melanie Gonick/MIT
Additional footage courtesy of NASA
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- GelSight sensor gives robots touch
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- 1:45
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
- Description
- Researchers at MIT and Northeastern University have equipped a robot with a novel tactile sensor that lets it grasp a USB cable and insert it into a USB port. (Learn more about the sensor: http://bit.ly/1uNmcft)
Video: Melanie Gonick, MIT News
Computer renderings courtesy of Rui Li
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- Synthetic squid skin
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- 1:42
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
- Description
- Cephalopods, which include octopuses, squid, and cuttlefish, are among nature’s most skillful camouflage artists, able to change both the color and texture of their skin within seconds to blend into their surroundings — a capability that engineers have long struggled to duplicate in synthetic materials. (Learn more: http://mitsha.re/1o3Ensl)
Now, a team of researchers has come closer than ever to achieving that goal, creating a flexible material that can change its color or fluorescence and its texture at the same time, on demand, under remote control.
Video: Melanie Gonick, MIT News
Synthetic skin simulations courtesy of the researchers
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- MIT Robotic Cheetah
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- 2:34
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
- Description
- MIT researchers have developed an algorithm for bounding that they've successfully implemented in a robotic cheetah. (Learn more: http://mitsha.re/YCipV)
The MIT Cheetah 2 contains the custom electric motor designed by Jeffrey Lang, the Vitesse Professor of Electrical Engineering at MIT and the amplifier designed by David Otten, a principal research engineer in MIT’s Research Laboratory of Electronics.
This work was supported by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.
Video: Melanie Gonick/MIT
Additional footage: Hae-Won Park and José-Luis Olivares
Stock media provided by Pond5.com
Music sampled from "Spooky" by Alastair Cameron
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- Wrinkles in time
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- 0:33
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
- Description
- MIT researchers have identified a mechanism by which tiny, millimeter-wide wrinkles embedded within ancient rocks may have formed. (Learn more about the mechanism:http://bit.ly/1wIwMaQ)
In this controlled experiment, you can see the formation of ridges. Wave conditions were kept constant during the experiment, and the view is centered in the middle of the tank where orbital amplitudes are about 10 mm. Microbial mat fragments were added to the tank approximately half an hour into the experiment. Note that sediments do not move in the absence of mat fragments, and that ridges form in about 1 hour.
Video courtesy of the researchers.
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- Grabbing space debris
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- 2:12
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
- Description
- MIT researchers tested an algorithm for gauging the rotation of objects in zero gravity using only visual information, aboard the International Space Station (Learn more about the experiment: http://bit.ly/1osvusc)
Understanding how objects are spinning in space, where their centers of mass are, and how their mass is distributed is crucial to any space mission. From cleaning up debris to landing a demolition crew on a comet.
Here we see the tracked features and dense reconstructed model for three tests on the ISS where the object is spinning about the major, minor and intermediate axes respectively.
Video courtesy of the researchers.
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- Corals as engineers
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- 1:44
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
- Description
- Scientists at MIT and the Weizmann Institute of Science (WIS) in Israel have found that corals, long believed to be passive organisms relying entirely on ocean currents to deliver nutrients, are actually quite active, engineering their environment producing strong swirls of water that draw nutrients toward the coral, while driving potentially toxic waste products away. (Learn more: http://bit.ly/1ufbfTB)
Video produced and edited by Melanie Gonick, MIT News
Video clips in order of appearance: "Vortical ciliary flows actively enhance mass transport in reef corals",Orr H. Shapiro, Vicente I. Fernandez, Melissa S. Garren, Jeffrey S. Guasto, François P. Debaillon-Vesque, Esti Kramarski-Winter, Assaf Vardi, Roman Stocker, PNAS, 2014; DOI number 10.1073/pnas.1323094111
"Coral cilia", Orr Shapiro, Assaf Vardi, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel; Vicente Fernandez, Roman Stocker, MIT, USA.
"Vortical ciliary flows actively enhance mass tra...
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- Sorting cells with sound waves
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- 1:48
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
- Description
- Researchers from MIT, Pennsylvania State University, and Carnegie Mellon University have devised a new way to separate cells by exposing them to sound waves as they flow through a tiny channel. (Learn more about the device: http://bit.ly/1wwDlxV)
Their device, about the size of a dime, could be used to detect the extremely rare tumor cells that circulate in cancer patients’ blood, helping doctors predict whether a tumor is going to spread.
Video produced and edited by Melanie Gonick, MIT News
Video clips provided by Ming Dao
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- ALS Ice Bucket Challenge: MIT President L. Rafael Reif
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- 5:11
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
- Description
- This morning, MIT President L. Rafael Reif accepted a double #IceBucketChallenge from Harvard President Drew Faust and the MIT Edgerton Center. The ice bucket challenge is raising funds to help scientists research the causes of and potential treatments for ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig's disease.
President Reif invited the MIT community to participate, and he dedicated the event to Karolina Fraczkowska '01, whose husband recently died of the disease.
Reif now challenges Shruti Sharma, president of the MIT Undergraduate Association; Kendall Nowocin, president of the MIT Graduate Student Council; Thomas Rosenbaum, president of the California Institute of Technology; Christina Paxson, president of Brown University; and Nicholas Dirks, chancellor of UC Berkeley.
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- LLRISE: Building radars at Lincoln Laboratory
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- 4:21
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
- Description
- The Lincoln Laboratory Radar Introduction for Student Engineers (LLRISE) program is a summer workshop teaching students how to build small radar systems. (Learn more about LLRISE and Lincoln Laboratory: http://goo.gl/Q52pGc)
This summer STEM program is a two-week residential project-based enrichment program for outstanding students going into their senior year of high school.
Throughout LLRISE students will be challenged to build a Doppler and range radar by using creative problem-solving strategies. This hands-on program allows students to work in a state-of-the-art laboratory with scientists and engineers who are experts in their field.
Video: Melanie Gonick, MIT News
Additional footage: Trevor Chamberlain, Lincoln Laboratory
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- Magnetic Hair
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- 1:29
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
- Description
- MIT engineers have fabricated a new elastic material coated with microscopic, hairlike structures that tilt in response to a magnetic field. (Learn more about these structures: http://bit.ly/1y2E8SX)
Depending on the field's orientation, the microhairs can tilt to form a path through which fluid can flow; the material can even direct water upward, against gravity.
Video produced and edited by Melanie Gonick/MIT News
Video clips courtesy of the researchers
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- Surfaces can control what's on them
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- 0:44
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
- Description
- Researchers at MIT and in Saudi Arabia have developed a new way of making surfaces that can actively control how fluids or particles move across them. (Learn more about these "active" surfaces: http://bit.ly/1nOQzAD)
The work might enable new kinds of biomedical or microfluidic devices, or solar panels that could automatically clean themselves of dust and grit.
Video produced and edited by Melanie Gonick
Footage courtesy of the researchers
Music sampled from: "Light Thought var 2" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
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- Vision Correcting Displays
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- 2:29
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
- Description
- Researchers at the MIT Media Laboratory and the University of California at Berkeley have developed a new display technology that automatically corrects for vision defects — no glasses (or contact lenses) required. (Learn more about the display: http://bit.ly/1s6xeuR)
Video: Melanie Gonick, MIT News
Additional footage and artist renderings courtesy of Gordon Wetzstein
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- Bamboo Engineering
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- 2:41
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
- Description
- MIT scientists, along with architects and wood processors from England and Canada, are looking for ways to turn bamboo into a construction material more akin to wood composites, like plywood. (Learn more: http://bit.ly/WCNN7e)
Such bamboo products are currently being developed by several companies; the MIT project, lead by professor Lorna Gibson, intends to gain a better understanding of these materials, so that bamboo can be more effectively used.
Video: Melanie Gonick, MIT News
Additional footage courtesy of MyBoringChannel and Frank Ross
(http://myboringchannel.com/)
Music sampled from: Radio Silence
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Artist/Composer: Schemawound
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- Gold nanoparticles easily penetrate cells
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- 1:21
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
- Description
- A new study from MIT materials scientists reveals that a special class of tiny gold particles can easily slip through cell membranes, making them good candidates to deliver drugs directly to target cells.
Video produced and edited by Melanie Gonick, MIT News
Computer simulations courtesy of Reid Van Lehn
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- 7 Finger Robot
- Runtime
- 2:44
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
- Description
- Researchers at MIT have developed a robot that enhances the grasping motion of the human hand. (Learn more: http://bit.ly/1tdPd2t)
The device, worn around one's wrist, works essentially like two extra fingers adjacent to the pinky and thumb. The robot, which the researchers have dubbed "supernumerary robotic fingers," or "SR fingers," consists of actuators linked together to exert forces as strong as those of human fingers during a grasping motion.
Video: Melanie Gonick, MIT News
Additional footage courtesy of Faye Wu
- Title
- Squishy Robots
- Runtime
- 2:39
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
- Description
- A new phase-changing material built from wax and foam developed by researchers at MIT is capable of switching between hard and soft states. (Learn more: http://mitne.ws/1wlz4bn)
Robots built from this material would be able to operate more like biological systems with applications ranging from difficult search and rescue operations, squeezing through rubble looking for survivors, to deformable surgical robots that could move through the body to reach a particular point without damaging any of the organs or vessels along the way.
Video: Melanie Gonick, MIT News
Additional video clips courtesy of Nadia Cheng
- Title
- Oil and water
- Runtime
- 0:26
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
- Description
- Tiny droplets of water, colored blue, are suspended in oil on top of a membrane developed by the MIT team. (Full description at: http://mitne.ws/1lvM4F6)
Thanks to the membrane's tiny pores, with a special coating that attracts water and repels oil, the droplets shrink as they pass through the membrane, ultimately leaving just pure oil behind. A similar membrane with a different coating can do the reverse, allowing oil droplets to pass while blocking water.
Video courtesy of the researchers.
- Title
- Mathematics at MIT
- Runtime
- 4:43
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
- Description
- Mathematics has played an important part at MIT since the founding of the Institute. Mathematics occupies a core intellectual position at MIT, an institution that is well known for its leadership in Science and Engineering. (Learn more about the MIT Mathematics: http://math.mit.edu/index.php)
Video: Melanie Gonick, MIT News
Music sampled from: Her breath (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/arizono_kazuhiro/EPV_070/)
Artist/Composer: Arizono Kazuhiro
http://soundcloud.com/arizono-kazuhiro
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/legalcode
- Title
- Morphable surfaces at MIT
- Runtime
- 0:28
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
- Description
- In the lab, the morphable surface developed by the team can have its surface texture changed at will simply by changing the pressure inside, using a pump. When the inside reassure is reduced, the flexible material shrinks, but the outer layer, being stiffer, gets wrinkled as it shrinks, just like a plum drying in the sun to become a prune. Unlike a prune, the material can immediately bounce back to a smooth state when the pressure increases, providing a fully controllable surface texture.
Read more: http://newsoffice.mit.edu/2014/morphable-surfaces-could-cut-air-resistance
Video: Denis Terwagne and Pedro Reis, MIT
- Title
- All in the Family: One family, eight employees, 85+ years of service
- Runtime
- 4:05
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
- Description
- Beginning his career at MIT Lincoln Laboratory in 1959, Leon Belanger was the first of his family to work at MIT. Over years he has watched family member after family member after family member follow in his footsteps. Eight members of Leon's family have been employees by MIT in one capacity or another, totaling to almost a century of service between them.
Video: Melanie Gonick, MIT News
Still Images: Courtesy of MIT Lincoln Laboratory and Mark Belanger
Music: July.#4 (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/arizono_kazuhiro/EPV_070/)
Artist/Composer: Arizono Kazuhiro
http://soundcloud.com/arizono-kazuhiro
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/legalcode
- Title
- African Darter Wing Feather Immersed in Water and Oil
- Runtime
- 0:27
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
- Description
- Wing feather of an African Darter (Anhinga ruff) is immersed in water (dyed blue) and oil (dyed red). As the feather is pushed down into the liquids, it repels the water (as shown by the downward curve of the water surface), while its surface is wetted by the oil (as shown by the upward curvature).
Video: Justin Kleingarter and Siddarth Srinivasan
