In an article for Science examining the latest research on surface tension, Elizabeth Pennisi highlights work by Professor Lydia Bourouiba to understand how airborne pathogens take flight. Through her work, Bourouiba hopes to find new ways to curb the spread of disease.
A new project from the MIT Media Lab attempts to quantify a person’s fame, writes Dwight Garner in The New York Times Magazine. “For now, you are legitimately famous, the M.I.T. team has decided, if a Wikipedia page under your name exists in more than 25 languages,” Garner reports.
“A team of engineers at the university's Distributed Robotics Laboratory has developed a soft robot fish, which is not only capable of taking evasive manoeuvres at remarkable speed, but is also entirely self-contained and autonomous,” writes Wired’s Nicholas Tufnell of a new soft robotic fish developed at MIT.
Space.com’s Katia Moskvitch writes that a team led by MIT Professor Jeffrey Hoffman has suggested new, cost-efficient techniques for establishing gas stations in space. The stations would be used to fuel future missions to the Moon.
MIT Professor John Hansman talks with Bloomberg Businessweek about the disappearance of Malaysian Airlines Flight 370 in this video interview.
Harvard Gazette correspondent Chuck Leddy reports on a recent speech by Susan Hockfield, MIT President Emerita, during a packed session at Harvard's John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum. She discussed the power of technology’s ongoing convergence.
Boston Magazine reporter Steve Annear spotlights the new soft robotic fish developed at MIT. “The life-like machine is so realistic—in both shape and feel—that it mimics the movements of a real underwater creature to a T. In a way, it even has built-in gills to help it survive,” writes Annear.
Amina Khan highlights the new soft robotic fish developed by MIT researchers in the Los Angeles Times. Khan explains that the design of the fish takes its cues from nature, while the specially designed motors allow the fish to move at high speeds and perform sharp turns.
Bloomberg Businessweek’s Tom Moroney reports on a new soft robotic fish developed by MIT researchers. The fish, he writes, “can shake its booty on computer command and escape from an anxious angler’s grip nearly as fast as the real thing.”
MIT's Daniel Weitzner joins a panel on the PBS NewsHour to discuss the Internet, 25 years after the introduction of the World Wide Web.
MIT Professor Seth Lloyd writes about the field of quantum biology in this piece that appeared on PBS.org.
“Investors are more likely to put money into a business idea pitched by a man than a woman, according to a study published by researchers from Harvard, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Wharton School,” writes Matt Clinch for CNBC.
Klint Finley, a reporter for Wired, reports on Open Ephys, a project for sharing open-source neuroscience hardware designs founded by MIT and Brown University researchers.
New research from MIT shows that investors are more likely to select business concepts pitched by men, in particular attractive men, as opposed to women, reports Richard Valdmanis for Reuters.
Shivang Dave and a team of MIT students have developed a new device that could improve eye care in India’s urban slums by quickly and cheaply providing prescriptions for eyeglasses, reports Frank Olito for The Boston Globe.