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Overview: The outermost skin of a space-based structure is designed using materials known to protect against the harsh elements of space. S…
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Our Oceans IoT technologies enable new applications in climate and ecological monitoring, aquaculture, energy, and robotic navigation. …
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Mental Machine: Labour in the Self Economy, 2022, is a live performance by Kawita Vatanajyankur made in collaboration with Pat Patara…
By Rachel Bellisle
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SpaceHuman is a soft robotics device designed to facilitate the exploration of environments with reduced gravity in a view of democratizati…
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Living Observatory is an initiative for documenting and interpreting ecological change that will allow people, individually and collectivel…
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How did life originate? Nobody knows. Life might not even be native to our Earth - it might have come from asteroids or the interstellar me…
By Somayajulu Dhulipala and Manwei ChanAs humanity explores deeper into space, long-duration missions will require horticulture activities …
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The Tidmarsh Living Observatory Portal is a research project that focuses on the design and fabrication of a pavilion that will genera…
Life on Mars, if it exists, could have been transferred between Earth and Mars due to meteorite impacts. The Search for Extra-Terrestrial G…
Have you ever wondered what a friend would do if she was in your decision-making situation? Or thought about where a family membe…
View the main City Science Andorra project profile.Research in dynamic tools, mix users (citizens, workers) amenities, services, and land u…
We propose an improved private count-mean-sketch data structure and show its applicability to differentially private contact trac…
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Resilience Across Scales is a research theme that encompasses the work of a few Media Lab Principal Investigators and their research groups…
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Split Learning: Distributed deep learning without sharing raw data Project Page: https://splitlearning.github.io/Abstract: C…
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As of August 2020, Ring has active partnerships with over 1400 law enforcement agencies across the US. These partnerships allow law enforce…