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The Space Exploration Initiative’s latest research flight explores work and play in zero gravity
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Space Exploration Initiative
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The Telemetron was created in response to a call from the MIT Media Lab’s Space Exploration Initiative.
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Xin Liu discusses the Space Exploration Initiative's upcoming arts exhibition at Ars Electronica
Reimagining research for life in space
The Scratch Team invited young people from around the world to create Scratch projects designed specifically to be played in zero gr...
The widespread synthesis of common organic building blocks in space could have biased life beyond Earth towards chemical similarities to ...
Can we enable social connectivity between astronauts and people on Earth through an embodied agent?Astronauts actively communicate with t...
Each new technology forces us to confront who we are as humans. As technological innovations in deep space exploration keep advanci...
Expansion microscopy (ExM) is a new imaging modality developed by MIT Media Lab's Synthetic Neurobiology group. ExM allows biomolecules t...
The brain uses space to index, organize, and retrieve memories. However, our sense of space depends on our perception of gravity. We...
Research projects deployed in zero gravity, November 2017.