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MIT’s thriving maker culture is on display in ABC network’s “BattleBots” competition.
Portable sensor detects trace amounts of gluten in food at restaurants.
Workshop led by scientist and photographer Felice Frankel teaches researchers how to translate experiments into captivating images.
New book by Senseable City Lab researchers presents vision of data-driven urban design.
Blanche Staton will serve as interim graduate dean.
Prof. Neil Gershenfeld speaks with Adam Shaw of BBC Horizons about how the fabrication labs he started at the MIT Center for Bits and Atoms have spread around the world. Gershenfeld explains that Fab Labs “are places where ordinary people can go and they can turn data into things and things into data,” adding that they are part of the maker revolution.
The curved origami sculptures created by Prof. Erik Demaine and his father Martin Demaine are featured in the exhibit “Above the Fold: New Expressions in Origami,” writes Solvej Schou for the Associated Press. The father-son duo use math algorithms to solve paper-folding problems. "Our work grows directly out of our decades collaborating together in mathematics and sculpture," explains Prof. Demaine.
Graduate student Jamison Go, who was inspired to become an engineer by watching the show “BattleBots,” is now part of one of four MIT teams competing on the program, writes Jordan Graham for The Boston Herald. “It feels like I’m completing a cycle. To compete on a show which initially inspired me to become an engineer is amazing,” says Go.
Tests in mice show the vaccines work against Ebola, influenza, and a common parasite.
September ozone hole has shrunk by 4 million square kilometers since 2000.
Microscopy technique allows scientists to pinpoint RNA molecules in the brain.
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