The team says the next step is to work in human cadavers and then test the technology in a living human On earth.
when vapour escapes the leaves. The result is an array of between 500 and 5000 focussed ion beams that stream from each of the eight chips on the Cubesat when the electric field the strength
To find out if this works in practice Price and colleagues made model comet ice in the lab containing various amounts of ammonia carbon dioxide and methanol.
Advances in pre-flight automation mean that the rocket dubbed Epsilon can be ready to lift off in about a week with fewer people in mission control helping to slash costs to about $38 million per launch much cheaper than its heavier labour-intensive predecessors.
or our sun leaves the region of the sun and gets mixed in with the rest of the stuff.
if it continues to look promising we'll do more work he said. If not we'll get on the road.
"I've got students that will leave with a master's and have built and launched five
First stepsin pioneering a new field of study CPI s first challenge is to identify key research questions select appropriate methodologies to guide the work
and work with them on formulating solutions Weitzner said. In addition to research a contribution of the CPI in the long run will be to create a pipeline of students to serve as the next generation of leaders working at this intersection of technology and public policy.
What if you could bring that type of analytics to the workplace? Now MIT spinout Sociometric Solutions is developing a system it calls moneyball for business
and job satisfaction says Ben Waber Phd 11 cofounder and president of Sociometric. Individuals can use that data to boost performance
The bank wanted to know how this physical layout affected productivity and job satisfaction. Waber Pentland and other researchers developed
and got more work done more efficiently. They also found evidence of communication overload where high volumes of email due to lack of face-to-face interaction were causing some employees difficulty in concentrating
and decreasing their job satisfaction. Armed with these results the bank rearranged its layout to increase the proximity of the close-knit employees
Waber points to his firm s work with a major online travel company. While looking at the employees lunchtime interactions they discovered one of the most predictive measures of good performance was the number of people an employee ate with the more the merrier.
Waber says many of Sociometric s results point to a need for more social interaction in the workplace.
This work is very exciting because it integrates many useful capabilities in a single system:
Because of the scale of the work, Spielberg and Keating encountered some obstacles. For instance, Spielberg says,
and music that offer a form of self-expression that sometimes hard to attain in other forms of work,
or restructure your vision of how your algorithm works. You could see applications where you might cut down a whole month of work into a few days.
Bringing the outdoors in The group has explored a few such applications using the visualization system. In one scenario, the team is looking into the role of drones in fighting forest fires.
So far the work has been carried out on a model cell surface on a functionalized microscope slide
The initial work was done with flat surfaces; the team now aims to conduct studies in complex 3-D settings to make sure the process works effectively in situations that more closely resemble a real cellular environment.
Ignacio Pagonabarraga a professor of fundamental physics at the University of Barcelona who was connected not with this research says This simple synthetic system may be valuable to gain more insight into basic physical principles associated with durotaxis the mechanical sensing mechanism by
because the obvious solution doesn work.?Heejin then redesigned the device as a pretzel-shaped structure by incorporating a superelastic wire made from a special nitinol alloy.
and some of the students had done the work, collected the data to determine it was thought feasible,
As the work continues later experiments may add additional materials to the particles coating so that they interact in specific ways with molecules or structures within the cell either for diagnosis or treatment.
Christopher Murray a professor of chemistry and materials science and engineering at the University of Pennsylvania who was connected not with this research says This work exemplifies the power of using nanocrystals as building blocks for multiscale and multifunctional structures.
The work was supported by the National institutes of health the Army Research Office through MIT s Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies and the Department of energy y
But in the new work they instead used carbon nanotubes atom-thick sheets of carbon rolled into cylinders grown on the slopes of the emitters like trees on a mountainside.
We also show that they work uniformly that each emitter is doing exactly the same thing Velsquez-Garc a says.
They also showed that this approach works with commercial yeast strains and other types of alcohols including propanol and butanol
This work goes a long way to squeezing the last drop of ethanol from sugar adds Gerald Fink an MIT professor of biology member of the Whitehead Institute and the paper s other senior author.
Industrial relevancebefore yeast begin their work producing ethanol the starting material usually corn must be broken down into glucose.
By combining this work with our previously published high-throughput screening system we are able to create a drug-discovery pipeline with efficiency we had imagined never before adds Tsung-Yao Chang a recent MIT Phd recipient and one of the paper s lead authors.
#Jeff Karp an associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical school who was not part of the research team says this work is an excellent example of harnessing a multidisciplinary team to partner complementary technologies for the purpose of solving a unified problem.
The material works as part of a solar-thermophotovoltaic (STPV) device: The sunlight s energy is converted first to heat
This work shows the potential of both photonic engineering and materials science to advance solar energy harvesting says Paul Braun a professor of materials science and engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign who was involved not in this research.
however the work here is one of the most important steps in that process. The group is now working to optimize the system with alternative metals.
The work was supported by the Solid-state Solar Thermal energy Conversion Center and the U s. Department of energy y
This is a finding of fundamental importance in the biology of pancreatic cancer says David Tuveson a professor at the Cancer Center at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory who was involved not in the work.
The findings may also allow scientists to pursue new treatments that would work by targeting tumor metabolism
Because of its small size and unique propulsion mechanism which leaves no visible wake the robots could in theory be concealed in clumps of algae or other camouflage.
Ultrasound however works only when the emitter is in direct contact with the object to be scanned
but in ongoing work Bhattacharyya and Asada are exploring mechanical systems that would create hydrodynamic buffers of just the right depth to enable the robot to perform ultrasound scans without surface contact.
Last month Lu s lab reported a different approach to combating resistant bacteria by identifying combinations of genes that work together to make bacteria more susceptible to antibiotics.
Cutting out resistancemost antibiotics work by interfering with crucial functions such as cell division or protein synthesis. However some bacteria including the formidable MRSA (methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus)
This work represents a very interesting genetic method for killing antibiotic-resistant bacteria in a directed fashion
but it doesn t necessarily tell you why they work well Lu says. This is a high-throughput technology for uncovering genetic combinations that look really interesting
and learn how it works. Video: Melanie Gonick/MIT Toward the ultimate gaitthe act of running can be parsed into a number of biomechanically distinct gaits from trotting
This work was supported by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency g
#Making drones more customizable A first-ever standard perating systemfor drones, developed by a startup with MIT roots, could soon help manufacturers easily design
Sure enough, the team earned second-to-last place. ut we learned that black-box solution didn work
hobbyists built computers using software that didn work with different computers. At the same time, powerful mainframes were only available to a select few
These initial concepts using the whole room as a digital workplace became the foundation for g-speak. really wanted to get the ideas out into the world in a form that everyone could use,
and leave a really compact core of user-interface ideas we have today. After years of writing custom projects for clients on g-speak,
when the work was done and is now at Northeastern University and Giovanni Resta a researcher at Santi s home institution the Institute for Informatics and Telematics.
who was involved not in this work. In this study, the researchers first tested the system with plastic beads, finding that it could separate beads with diameters of 9. 9 and 7. 3 microns (thousandths of a millimeter) with about 97 percent accuracy.
algorithms can do less work and hence finish more quickly. hese days, with cloud technology, storing lots of data is no big deal.
along with Leurent who actually started FEA work with Patera group back in 2000 earned a Deshpande innovation grant for their upercomputing-on-a-smartphoneinnovation. hat was a trigger,
But it was good to have that solid footing in academic work that we could build on
The team work clearly demonstrates that lead recovered from old batteries is just as good for the production of perovskite solar cells as freshly produced metal.
I think the work demonstrated here can resolve a major issue of industrial waste, and provide a solution for future renewable energy.
The work, which also included research scientist Jifa Qi, graduate student Matthew Klug and postdoc Xiangnan Dang, was supported by Italian energy company Eni through the MIT Energy Initiative y
and this work goes a long way in showing that this is achievable. RNA therapies are very flexible
The new work is similar but a network of electrical leads rather than an oven or hot plate delivers heat to the robot s joints to initiate folding.
In prior work Rus Demaine and Wood developed an algorithm that could automatically convert any digitally specified 3-D shape into an origami folding pattern.
and computer science at the University of California at Berkeley who has been following the MIT and Harvard researchers work.
The work was funded by the National Science Foundation the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Research at Harvard and the Air force Office of Scientific research h
but also light much as window blinds tilt to filter the sun. Researchers say the work could lead to waterproofing and anti-glare applications such as smart windows for buildings and cars.
Zhu chose to work with materials that move in response to a magnetic field. Others have designed such magnetically actuated materials by infusing polymers with magnetic particles.
and even the leaves of a potted plant. The researchers will present their findings in a paper at this year Siggraph
In ongoing work, the researchers have begun trying to determine material and structural properties of objects from their visible response to short bursts of sound.
The work might enable new kinds of biomedical or microfluidic devices or solar panels that could automatically clean themselves of dust and grit.
Neelesh Patankar a professor of mechanical engineering at Northwestern University who was involved not in this work says this research introduces a new class of approach for droplet-based microfluidic platforms
He adds This work cleverly combines low-hysteresis droplet movement with low-magnetic-field-driven droplet propulsion to achieve impressive capabilities.
The work was supported by the MIT-KFUPM Center for Clean water and Clean energy y
#Light pulses control graphene s electrical behavior Graphene, an ultrathin form of carbon with exceptional electrical optical and mechanical properties, has become a focus of research on a variety of potential uses.
The researchers say the work could aid the development of new light detectors with ultrafast response times and high sensitivity across a wide range of light frequencies from the infrared to ultraviolet.
"The work is interesting because it presents a systematic study of the doping dependence of the low energy dynamics
The work received support from the U s. Department of energy and the National Science Foundation n
#Vision-correcting displays 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.
MIT researchers explain how their vision-correcting display technology works. The key thing is they seem to have cracked the contrast problem Dainty adds.
In 2006 el Kaliouby came to the Media Lab to work with Picard to expand
Already Affectiva has conducted pilot work for online learning where it captured data on facial engagement to predict learning outcomes.
Stanley s commitment to support the work of the Broad Institute will consist of annual gifts during his lifetime followed by a bequest with a total current value exceeding $650 million.
Taking prior gifts into account Stanley s philanthropy in support of the Broad Institute s work totals more than $825 million.
The structure works much like a sponge that, when placed in water on a hot,
The device worn around one s wrist works essentially like two extra fingers adjacent to the pinky and thumb.
As a user works with the robot it could learn to adapt to match his
Chuanhua Duan an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at Boston University who was involved not in this research says This work provides a new approach for energy harvesting
#These work well but only over very short distances so they re nearly touching Soljacic says.
You can have a charging surface wherever you go from a kitchen counter to your workplace to airport lounge
That works well when the oil and water are already large globs of stuff already partly separated Varanasi says.
The new work is described in a paper in the journal Advanced Materials by MIT Pedro Reis and former MIT postdocs Denis Terwagne (now at the Université Libre de Bruxelles in Belgium) and Miha
Terwagne says that making the morphable surfaces for lab testing required a great deal of trial-and-error work that ultimately yielded a simple and efficient fabrication process. his beautiful simplicity to achieve a complex functionality is used often by nature,
and engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign who was involved not in this work,
. When two cores need to communicate, theye granted exclusive access to the bus. But that approach won work as the core count mounts:
so the snoopy protocol still works. The hierarchy is shuffled during every interval, however, to ensure that in the long run,
a Phd student in mechanical engineering at MIT and lead author of the research papers. ee proved that the concept works.
The company has code libraries for each type of equipment it works with such as air handlers, chillers,
While this analysis still leaves open questions about the precise structure of eumelanin molecules, Buehler says,
The new work, he says, rovides a somewhat unexpected answer to this conundrum. The researchersapproach, he says,
The work was funded partly by the U s. Department of energy through the Center for Excitonics at MIT
While many studies have identified drugs that work well together, a 2012 paper from Yaffe lab was the first to show that the timing of drug administration can dramatically influence the outcome.
the wiresconnections get switched around so that the second drug works in a much more effective way.
The work was funded by the National institutes of health, the Center for Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence, the Koch Institute Frontier Research Program supported by the Kathy and Curt Marble Fund for Cancer Research,
The excited electron brings some energy along and leaves some behind, so that both molecules give off electrons.
This work was performed in the Center for Excitonics, an Energy Frontier Research center funded by the U s. Department of energy.
Keeping every tenth sensor won t work: It s the regularity of the distances between sensors that leads to aliasing.
In the near term, the work could lead to educational tools that identify errors in studentsreasoning
the new work is in the field of emantic parsing, or translating natural language into a formal language such as arithmetic or formal logic.
He and his colleagues plan to build on this work by expanding their studies to other parts of the brain,
Such a test could also be used to predict patientsresponse to chemotherapy drugs, which often work by damaging cancer cellsdna,
It s a mark of the groundbreaking work Herr has done at the MIT Media Lab over the past two decades.
But ultimately the work of both Biom and Herr s group at MIT he says aims to help revolutionize the idea of personal bionics blurring the lines between electromechanics and the human body.
David Lidzey a professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Sheffield who was involved not in this work calls the research a really impressive demonstration of a direct measurement of the diffusion of triplet excitons and their eventual trapping.
The work was supported by the U s. Department of energy and by the National Science Foundation and used facilities of the Eni-MIT Solar Frontiers Center r
The new work is a follow-up to research by Grossman and his team three years ago,
based on computer analysis. But translating that theoretical work into a practical material proved daunting: In order to reach the desired energy density the amount of energy that can be stored in a given weight
The interactions between azobenzene molecules on neighboring CNTS make the material work, Kucharski says. While previous modeling showed that the packing of azobenzenes on the same CNT would provide only a 30 percent increase in energy storage,
an assistant professor of chemistry at the University of North carolina who was involved not in this work. He adds that the resulting increase in energy storage density s surprising and remarkable. his result provides additional motivation for researchers to design more
The work was supported by BP though the MIT Energy Initiative and the U s. Department of energy Advanced Research Projects Agency Energy n
a professor of biologically inspired engineering at Harvard university who was involved not in the research. here are several striking features of this work,
Gita Gopinath, an economics professor at Harvard university, calls the work terrific paperthat adds new information to the field. hat we did not know,
and Neiman take the same view in the paper. uture work should focus on understanding what determines when prices behave like those documented here
This work shows that CRISPR can be used successfully in adults and also identifies several of the challenges that will need to be addressed moving forward to the development of human therapies says Charles Gersbach an assistant professor of biomedical engineering at Duke university who was not part of the research team.
Nevertheless this work is an exciting first step to using modern gene-editing tools to correct the devastating genetic diseases for
The work is described in a paper appearing this week in the journal Science, written by MIT graduate student Yichen Shen, professor of physics Marin Soljacic,
Previous work had demonstrated ways of selectively reflecting light except for one precise angle, but those approaches were limited to a narrow range of colors of light.
But for this approach to work it is essential to limit the heat and light lost to reflections,
The work was supported in part by the Army Research Office, through MIT Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies,
In future work, they hope to examine larger sets of neurons in hopes of finding some of these other neuron types.
I think this is really fantastic work that represents a great integration of synthetic biology and materials engineering says Lingchong You an associate professor of biomedical engineering at Duke university who was not part of the research team.
wait for the phages to do their work, and run the sample through a machine that detects any light emitted.
where a 15-person team now works on research and development and small-scale manufacturing. After leading the startup through technological implementation,
That works really really well as long as the world is pretty predictable. If you re in a world that is not which to be honest is everywhere outside a factory situation then you start to lose some of your advantage.
At the end of the day it s about making the economics work to compete against the price of fuel Hynes says adding We re able to do a lot with a little.
The diagnostic which works much like a pregnancy test could reveal within minutes based on a urine sample
The new work could have implications for the study of marine ecosystems and for our understanding of how infections take hold in medical devices.
The program links MIT teachers and mentors to Tibetan community programs through Skype supplemented by regular travel by Dalai lama Center staff alumni and students who among other work teach weeklong leadership
and spread information about those that work well so that others can benefit from the lessons learned.
because they have spent so much money on developing drugs that don work. They end up focusing somewhere else.
whether a drug works a reduction of 70 percent that Krebs says would translate to a similar reduction in time and cost.
To determine whether a drug works, the FDA will often look to a study effect size.
However, it works too slowly to keep up with the brain millisecond-by-millisecond dynamics. Another imaging technique, known as magnetoencephalography (MEG), uses an array of hundreds of sensors encircling the head to measure magnetic fields produced by neuronal activity in the brain.
but Cichy et al. come closer to characterizing the dynamic emergence of representational geometries across stages of processing in humans than any previous work.
The MIT researchers are now using representational similarity analysis to study the accuracy of computer models of vision by comparing brain scan data with the modelspredictions of how vision works.
who won the 2007 Lemelson-MIT Student Prize for his work (providing $30, 000 that further funded APA prototyping).
such as legal and financial work, and doing business with the government. isa gave us a lot of those nuts
as well as for first responders. here a broad spectrum of users people who use rope access as part of their work for
Indeed, prior work by Finkelstein, Baicker, and others on Oregon lottery applicants showed that people who obtain Medicaid increase their use of primary and preventive care.
which makes empirical work all the more important. Other scholars in the field say the study opens the way for further scrutiny of emergency room use.
who was involved not in this work, says this study valuates a number of examples of policies that contribute to a portfolio effort of reducing greenhouse gas emissions,
and it works much more reliably than lidar in bright sunlight when ambient light can yield misleading readings.
and techniques is really unique in the work going on at MIT right now. What more, the basic technology needed for the team approach is very similar to that already being shipped in devices such as the new version of Kinect,
Similarly, the veins of nasturtium leaves, unlike those of most leaves, are on top, where they serve to break up droplets that land there.
and nasturtium leaves faster than they bounced off lotus leaves, which are considered often the old standardof nonwetting surfaces.
Howard Stone, a professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at Princeton university who was involved not in this work,
In addition to nuclear safety systems, this work has important implications for systems such as steam generators, industrial boilers, fire suppression,
The work builds on previous research showing that when a particle is confined in a narrow channel,
Why is this work important? A: It is agreed generally that present-day science and exploration missions to deep space are constrained by the amount of data they can get back to Earth.
The work pens up a new avenue for optical manipulation of quantum states of matter,
says, he importance of this work is difficult to overestimate. He says it pens new avenues not only for optical control of topological states,
Typically during the first few sessions, the robot does most of the work moving the patient ankle back and forth and side to side, loosening up the muscles, ind of like a massage,
Many other robotic therapies are designed to do most of the work for the patient in an attempt to train the muscles to walk.
hich are highly relevant to many ankle injuries including the common ankle sprain. n intriguing extension of this work is that it may be possible to train individuals to activate their ankle musculature in a way that helps reduce the chance of injury,
For now, the team will continue its work in rehabilitation, using the Anklebot to train patients to walk
In prior work Najim Dehak a research scientist in the Spoken language Systems Group and one of the new paper s co-authors had demonstrated a technique for reducing the number of variables required to describe the acoustic signature of a particular speaker
To get a sense of how the technique works imagine a graph that plotted say hours worked by an hourly worker against money earned.
I think that was the significant contribution of Stephen s work k
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