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Radiofungi: Biological Pigments for Radioprotection

A major concern for manned missions is space radiation. Ionizing radiation is known to pose both acute and chronic risks to many organism...
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Poetic Justice

Exploring new forms of social justice through art
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Argus: Water monitoring through nanosensors inside living plants

Our traditional manufacturing, fabrication, and electronics have been centered around synthetic and completely artificial techniques. Com...
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Piccolo Kitchen

This project aims to create a modular platform for exploring micro-kitchens that are culture specific. Cooking is a personal experience t...
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How to Maximize the Future Kitchen, Even in Small Spaces

Suleiman Alhadidi talks with The Spoon Tech about the future kitchen:"We talk a lot about the appliances that go into the future kitchen ...
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ZG Stardust

How might zero gravity space affect silk spinning, and what benefits might such material properties provide for digital fabrication and a...
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Aguahoja

Programmable Water-Based Biocomposites for Digital Design and Fabrication across ScalesAguahoja is an exploration of nature’s design spac...
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Totems

Biodiversity on planet Earth is under momentous threat, with extinction rates estimated between 100 and 1,000 times their pre-human level...
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SpaceSkin: Aerospace-grade electronic textiles for distributed sensing on persistent orbital structures

The outermost skin of a space-based structure is designed using materials known to protect against the harsh elements of space. Simultane...
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INSPIRE

INSPIRE: Intelligence Never Seeks Perfection, Instead Requires Effort.Stories help us expand our sense of what's possible: by hearing fro...
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The QTY code: A simple tool for protein design

Structure and function studies of membrane proteins, particularly G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) and multipass transmembrane protein...
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Designing humanity’s future in space

The Space Exploration Initiative’s latest research flight explores work and play in zero gravity
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Cities WITHOUT—City Science Summit 2019

The third City Science Summit, kicked off October 1, 2019 in the HafenCity district of Hamburg.
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Out for blood: the fight against the planet’s deadliest creature

Kevin Esvelt and other experts discuss potential technological approaches to combating mosquito-borne diseases.
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A tailored, electronic textile conformable suit for large-scale spatiotemporal physiological sensing in vivo

The rapid advancement of electronic devices and fabrication technologies has further promoted the field of wearables and smart textiles. ...
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Chapter 18: Flexible and Stretchable Devices for Human-Machine Interfaces

Wicaksono, I., Dagdeviren, C., “Chapter 18: Flexible and Stretchable Devices for Human-Machine Interfaces," Handbook of Flexible and Stretchable Electronics, CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group 2019.
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The Interplanetary Cookbook

The MIT Media Lab Space Exploration Initiative is developing “The Interplanetary Cookbook”—a collection of thought-provoking recipes, too...
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Conformable Decoders

Converting the patterns of nature and the human body into beneficial signals and energy
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QTY code designed thermostable and water-soluble chimeric chemokine receptors with tunable ligand affinity

Rui Qing, Qiuyi Han, Michael Skuhersky, Haeyoon Chung, Myriam Badr, View ORCID ProfileThomas Schubert, and Shuguang Zhang. PNAS first published November 27, 2019 (https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1909026116). Edited by Alan R. Fersht, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom, and approved October 30, 2019 (received for review May 24, 2019).
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Thinking Cap

Peoples' mindsets, meaning their beliefs about their own intellectual abilities, affect their effort and thereby their performance on tas...
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SuperGlue Kinesics

The relationship between news content and its presentation has been a long-studied problem in the communications domain. Often, chan...
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Wearable Lab on Body: Combining Sensing of Biochemical and Digital Markers in a Wearable Device

P. Pataranutaporn, A. Jain, C. M. Johnson, P. Shah and P. Maes, "Wearable Lab on Body: Combining Sensing of Biochemical and Digital Markers in a Wearable Device," 2019 41st Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), Berlin, Germany, 2019, pp. 3327-3332. doi: 10.1109/EMBC.2019.8857479
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Envirome Monitoring with CRISPR Biosensors

Environmental DNA monitoring has become a standard part of building a picture of our envirome. Unfortunately, most methods of microbial i...
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AttentivU: An EEG-Based Closed-Loop Biofeedback System for Real-Time Monitoring and Improvement of Engagement for Personalized Learning

Nataliya Kosmyna, Pattie Maes. AttentivU: An EEG-Based Closed-Loop Biofeedback System for Real-Time Monitoring and Improvement of Engagement for Personalized Learning. Sensors 2019, 19, 5200.
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An exercise at Kennedy School explores the dangers if large sums could be secretly sent to hostile nations

Neha Narula and Gary Gensler joined other experts to explore the potential impacts of digital currencies on national and global security.
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This MIT engineer built his own bionic leg

Everett Lawson and Matt Carney worked with Biomechatronics group head Hugh Herr to fit Everett with a bionic prosthesis.
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SpaceTouch

An astronaut's ability to leverage the sense of touch is substantially reduced when wearing a protective, pressurized spacesuit. We imagi...
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Wearable Lab on Body

Wearables are being widely researched for monitoring individual's health and wellbeing. Current generation wearable devices sense an indi...
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Space/Craft

Space/Craft explores sculpting in zero gravity. Making artistic works by hand is a fundamentally human act, but how will it transfor...
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FLAPS: Folded Lightweight Actuated Positioning System for CubeSat Deployables

Mechanical actuators for deployable systems on satellites are often complex, expensive, only designed for a single use, and too large or ...
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ELI: Electronic Life-detection Instrument

Life on Mars, if it exists, could have been transferred between Earth and Mars due to meteorite impacts. The Search for Extra-Terrestrial...
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Microgravity Rowing

In microgravity, the removal of constant loading on the skeleton leads to loss of bone density and muscle mass. In order to counteract th...
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Molecular Gastronomy in Zero G

“Molecular Gastronomy in Zero G” explores the artistic and technical aspect of preparing food in space. Studying how food is created...
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Orbit Weaver Suit

​​​​​​​​​The Orbit Weaver Suit for zero gravity was designed by Media Lab Director's Fellow Andrea Lauer in collaboration with ...
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Dressing Audio Technologies: In/Visibility and Civic Resistance in the Age of Surveillance Capitalism

The fourth industrial revolution has brought new meanings to surveillance in the digital age. In recent years, we have seen the rise of s...
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Colloidal Luminaries for Architectural Lighting

Nina M. Lutz and V. Michael Bove. 2019. Colloidal Luminaries for Architectural Lighting. In Proceedings of the 6th ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Buildings, Cities, and Transportation (BuildSys '19). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 387-388. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3360322.3361014
Academic Paper, Nov. 2019
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Massively Multiplayer Operas: Interactive Systems for Collaborative Musical Narrative

Su, D. (2019). Massively Multiplayer Operas: Interactive Systems for Collaborative Musical Narrative. Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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AMAI: Adaptive Music for Affect Improvement

Su, D., Picard, R., Liu, Y. "AMAI: Adaptive Music for Affect Improvement." Proceedings of the 44th International Computer Music Conference (ICMC), Daegu, Korea, August 2018.
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SpeechBlocks

SpeechBlocks is a medium that allows children (4-5 years old) to engage in open-ended play with writing. They can build arbitrary composi...
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Moon Village

In 2015, the director general of the European Space Agency (ESA), Jan Wörner, introduced the concept of the “Moon Village.” Inspired by t...
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How to foster innovation in your workplace

Here are proven thought starters for creating a business culture that nurtures disruptive change
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Is biohacking ethical? It’s complicated. A new Netflix series explains why.

Unnatural Selection tackles tough questions about CRISPR gene editing, designer babies, and more.
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Building a more honest internet

What would social media look like if it served the public interest?
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Space Exploration Initiative

Space Exploration Initiative
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New method visualizes groups of neurons as they compute

Fluorescent probe could allow scientists to watch circuits within the brain and link their activity to specific behaviors.
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Tools for mapping the molecular architecture and wiring of the brain

Complex biological systems such as brain circuits are extended 3-D structures made out of nanoscale building blocks such as proteins, RNA...
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AIR-INK wins 2019 Solve Circular Economy Challenge

Produced by Media Lab spinoff Graviky Labs, AIR-INK was developed by Fluid Interfaces alum Anirudh Sharma.
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Mapping the brain at high resolution

New 3D imaging technique can reveal, much more quickly than other methods, how neurons connect throughout the brain.
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Zach Lieberman joins MIT Media Lab

New adjunct associate professor combines fine arts and coding.
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Lifelong Kindergarten

Engaging people in creative learning experiences
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Creative Learning in Brazil / Aprendizagem Criativa no Brasil

The Lemann Creative Learning Program is a collaboration between the MIT Media Lab and the Lemann Foundation to foster creative learning i...
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Desafio Aprendizagem Criativa Brasil 2019

ATENÇÃO: Saiu o resultado do Desafio Aprendizagem Criativa Brasil 2019! Clique aqui para conhecer os fellows e o...
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Desafio Aprendizagem Criativa Brasil 2020

O Desafio de Aprendizagem Criativa Brasil é o programa de fellowship da Rede Brasileira de Aprendizagem Criativa. Ele tem como objetivo f...
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Future Sketches

Exploring the essence of code as a creative medium
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City Science

Looking beyond smart cities
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This gene technology could change the world. Its maker isn’t sure it should.

How does one scientist deal with the potential ramifications of his own creation?
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Zero Gravity Flight 2019

This mission included participation from several departments at MIT and outside collaborators from across the globe.
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Mollastica - From Deep Sea to Deep Space

Impenetrable darkness, extreme pressure, cold water, and disorienting equilibrium. Deep sea creatures live in a world that is closer to o...