Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Extreme Materials
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- Extreme Materials
- Runtime
- 1:19
- Date posted
- 17 years ago
- Description
- Video: Melanie Gonick; computer simulation: Michael Demkowicz; additional images: Amit Misra / Los Alamos National Laboratory.
Assistant professor in MIT's Department of Materials Science and Engineering Michael Demkowicz designs materials meant to withstand high temperature, high stress and radiation damage.
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- A new type of Electric Vehicle
- Runtime
- 1:02
- Date posted
- 17 years ago
- Description
- Video: Melanie Gonick
In 16 hours, MIT's Electric Vehicle Team completed all of the major dismantling for their new, rapid-charge electric car.
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- Braille labelmaker demonstration
- Runtime
- 1:41
- Date posted
- 17 years ago
- Description
- Video: Melanie Gonick
Karina Pikhart, '09, demonstrates the 6-dot braille labelmaker.
- Title
- A labelmaker for the blind
- Runtime
- 3:20
- Date posted
- 17 years ago
- Description
- Video: Melanie Gonick; additional images: Karina Pikhart.
Karina Pikhart '09 and classmates designed a machine to make braille labels.
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- Underground methane
- Runtime
- 0:14
- Date posted
- 17 years ago
- Description
- This video shows underground methane gas invading fine-grain sediment (shown in yellow) by creating a fracture, as predicted by Jain and Juanes' grain scale model. Blue circles represent pore spaces where the gas has invaded. The maroon lines indicate compressive forces between sediment grains. The video shows that the network of compressive forces changes drastically with the evolution of the fracture. The green lines indicate tension between grains, caused by capillary forces that hold the grains together. The network of tension forces also changes with time, as the gas invades the sediment. Video / Ruben Juanes and Antone Jain, MIT
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- Robots swim with the fishes
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- 0:14
- Date posted
- 17 years ago
- Description
- A team of MIT researchers has built a school of swimming robo-fish designed to more easily maneuver into areas where traditional underwater autonomous vehicles can't go.
For more information, read the full story at web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2009/robo-fish-0824.html
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- Community Gardens - color
- Runtime
- 1:06
- Date posted
- 17 years ago
- Description
- Video: Melanie Gonick
MIT's community gardens, a pilot program spearheaded by MIT Police Sgt. Cheryl Vossmer and Libraries Administrative Assistant and Public Service Support Associate Ryan Gray, has taken bloom on the roof of the West Garage and along the side of the Albany Street garage. 32 community members participated in the program this year with approximately 55 boxes, and have already harvested crops including tomatoes, eggplants, peppers, herbs and more.
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- Hammer retreival, Apollo 16
- Runtime
- 0:52
- Date posted
- 17 years ago
- Description
- Apollo space suits self-support in lunar gravity. Credit: NASA/Ken Glover, ALSJ.
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- Robo-fish
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- 0:06
- Date posted
- 17 years ago
- Description
- Flow visualization (color alterations of fluorescent die movie) of small size caranguiform prototype (bass), swimming frequency = 1 Hz.
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- Hills and Valleys
- Runtime
- 0:41
- Date posted
- 17 years ago
- Description
- Computer model developed by Taylor Perron and colleagues shows how evenly-spaced ridges and valleys form over time as a result of erosion and the slumping of soil.
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- C. elegans responding to a touch stimulus
- Runtime
- 0:11
- Date posted
- 17 years ago
- Description
- C. elegans responding to a touch stimulus
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- Extreme materials
- Runtime
- 0:16
- Date posted
- 17 years ago
- Description
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- Ultracool subdwarfs: A digital universe simulation
- Runtime
- 1:59
- Date posted
- 17 years ago
- Description
- Simulation of the orbit of the ultracool subdwarf LSR 1610-0040 around the Milky Way, as visualized using Digital Universe. The simulation goes from 500 million years in the past to 500 million years in the future at a rate of 12 million years per second. In the middle, the motion slows down by a factor of 100 as the star passes by the Sun. Small clusters of stars indicate the locations of globular clusters, while the wire mesh surfaces in the center of the Milky Way indicate the approximate extents of the Bulge and Bar.
Animation credit: Prof. Adam Burgasser (MIT) and the Digital Universe/American Museum of Natural History, with thanks to Brian Abbott for assistance in creating the animation file.
More information on this result can be found at
http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2009/wild-rides-0609.html
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- Formation of a 'phantom traffic jam'
- Runtime
- 0:41
- Date posted
- 17 years ago
- Description
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- Frank Gertler discusses Mena, new cancer test possibilities
- Runtime
- 2:01
- Date posted
- 18 years ago
- Description
- MIT biology professor Frank Gertler discusses the Mena protein, and a test developed with two colleagues that could help doctors precisely identify which breast cancer patients should receive aggressive therapy, thereby sparing many women at low risk for metastatic disease from undergoing unnecessary and potentially dangerous treatment.
See the full story at http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2009/cancer-test-0324.html
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- Terrafugia's 'Transition' - First flight
- Runtime
- 0:46
- Date posted
- 18 years ago
- Description
- A prototype of what is being touted as the worlds first practical flying car took to the air for the first time this month, a milestone in a project started four years ago by students in MITs Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics.
At 7:40 a.m. on March 5, the winged car taxied down a runway in Plattsburgh, N.Y., took off, flew for 37 seconds and landed further down the runway — a maneuver it would repeat about a half dozen times over the next two days. In the coming months the company, a Woburn-based startup called Terrafugia, will test the plane in a series of ever-longer flights and a variety of maneuvers to learn about its handling characteristics.
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- MIT team unveils new solar car
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- 0:57
- Date posted
- 18 years ago
- Description
- MITs Solar Electric Vehicle Team, the oldest such student team in the country, unveiled its latest high-tech car on Friday, Feb. 27 in Lobby 13.
The new vehicle, Eleanor, is equipped with wireless links so lead and chase vehicles will be able to monitor every aspect of the cars electrical performance in real time. Its batteries have enough energy, when fully charged, to get the car from Boston to New York City without need of sunlight.
Read more about it here: http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2009/solar-car-adv-0225.html
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- Nano origami
- Runtime
- 0:55
- Date posted
- 18 years ago
- Description
- In this video, flaps of a polymer sheet are folded into a corner of a cube. An external magnetic field interacts with a current flowing through wires embedded in the sheet, causing the sheets to fold up.
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- Plasma Rocket (coke bottle)
- Runtime
- 0:14
- Date posted
- 18 years ago
- Description
- The testing of a prototype plasma rocket being developed at MIT that is much smaller than other rockets of its kind and runs on gases that are much less expensive than conventional propellants. This test involved a used coke bottle.
READ THE FULL STORY at web.mit.edu/newsoffice
VIDEO CREDIT: Oleg V. Batishchev
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- Plasma rocket
- Runtime
- 0:09
- Date posted
- 18 years ago
- Description
- The testing of a prototype plasma rocket being developed at MIT that is much smaller than other rockets of its kind and runs on gases that are much less expensive than conventional propellants. (WARNING: audio is loud)
READ THE FULL STORY at web.mit.edu/newsoffice
VIDEO CREDIT: Oleg V. Batishchev
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- The bicilavadora in Peru
- Runtime
- 0:50
- Date posted
- 18 years ago
- Description
- MIT students and residents of an orphanage in Peru work on, and try out, the bicilavadora — a cheap, reliable washing machine powered by bicycle parts. The device can be constructed mostly using parts and tools that are readily available almost everywhere in the developing world.
Video: Gwyndaf Jones
Read more on the bicilavadora at: http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2009/itw-bicilavadora-0219.html
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- Science in the Kitchen at MIT
- Runtime
- 1:13
- Date posted
- 18 years ago
- Description
- On the sixth-floor of a building at MIT, students are busy measuring flour, melting chocolate and beating eggs. But theyre not just trying to satisfy a sweet tooth — they're doing science.
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- MIT's Stefan Helmreich on his book "Alien Ocean"
- Runtime
- 1:04
- Date posted
- 18 years ago
- Description
- When anthropologist Stefan Helmreich decided to study scientists who chase some of the world's smallest creatures in some of the world's most forbidding places, his research took an unexpected twist. An interview with Helmreich on why the ocean can be so "alien."
View the full story at http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2009/alien-ocean-0205.html
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- Physical Heart, Virtual Body
- Runtime
- 3:18
- Date posted
- 18 years ago
- Description
- Produced by Amit Zoran, Marco Coppiardi and Paula Aguilera. © MIT Media Lab.
The Chameleon Guitar -- so named for its ability to mimic different instruments -- is an electric guitar whose body has a separate central section that is removable. This inserted section, the soundboard, can be switched with one made of a different kind of wood, or with a different structural support system, or with one made of a different material altogether. Then, the sound generated by the electronic pickups on that board can be manipulated by a computer to produce the effect of a different size or shape of the resonating chamber.
Read more about it here: http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2009/chameleon-guitar-0203.html
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- MIT professor Charles Stewart on race and the 2008 election
- Runtime
- 0:43
- Date posted
- 18 years ago
- Description
- MIT Professor Charles Stewart discusses how race played a roll in the election of Barack Obama, but in a way you might not expect.
Read more about it here: http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2009/racialpolarization-0120.html
