Students in "Chocolate Scupture" sponsored by the Lab for Chocolate Science enjoy working with molten raw materials. Left to right: Shan Shan Mou, a Harvard senior; Jon Chu (S.B. 2003); Chris Walsh, a junior in brain and cognitive sciences; and Beth Baniszewski, a junior in mechanical engineering.
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A version of this article appeared in MIT Tech Talk on February 4, 2004.
MIT spinout Electrified Thermal Solutions has developed an electrically conductive firebrick that stores heat at high enough temperatures to power industrial processes.