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The Space Enabled research group at the MIT Media Lab is seeking participants for a paid study on the impacts of social distancing policies…
Optically transparent and structurally sound, glass has played a significant role in the evolution of product and architectural design acro…
Ancient yet modern, enclosing yet invisible, glass was first created in Mesopotamia and Ancient Egypt 4,500 years ago. Precise recipes for…
Vespers is a collection of masks exploring what it means to design (with) life. From the relic of the death mask to a contemporary living d…
Biodiversity on planet Earth is under momentous threat, with extinction rates estimated between 100 and 1,000 times their pre-human level. …
Spinoff OPT Industries is scaling up production of novel metamaterials, such as swabs for Covid-19 testing.
Part of a collaboration between the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence, the Lab’s Community Biotechnology Initiative, and MilliporeSigma
Ramesh Raskar discuses potential approaches to creating apps that can leverage citizen engagement to improve government responses to crises.
Vida OverviewThe Space Enabled research group at the MIT Media Lab is leading a US-based team of innovators from East Carolina University (…
Kevin Esvelt calls on the research community to build defenses against future pandemics, not attempt to discover viruses that cause them.
Academic research groups, especially the ones directed by new junior faculty, are under pressure to produce high-quality work timely while …
Research finds Covid-19-related lockdowns led to a marked reduction in walking in lower-income areas of major metropolises.
Boston.com reports on research conducted by Human Dynamics head Sandy Pentland, visiting professor Esteban Moro, and collaborators.
By leveraging algorithms and unorthodox data sources, an MIT researcher has made Valencia a Covid-19 data pioneer
Dr. Oliver co-led team VALENCIA IA4COVID19’s Grand Prize-winning entry to the XPRIZE Pandemic Response Challenge.
John Ellis talks to Affective Computing head Rosalind Picard about making AI and computers more emotionally intelligent.
The team talks to CBS Boston about their work on a low-cost tabletop device that can quickly detect SARS-CoV-2 using a saliva sample.
Segregation is hurting our societies and especially our cities. But economic inequality isn't just limited to neighborhoods. The restaurant…
The tabletop diagnostic yields results in an hour and can be programmed to detect variants of the SARS-CoV-2 virus.
How data from Access MIT informs flexible, sustainable commutes as staff returns to campus.
D. Adjodah, et al (2021) Association between COVID-19 Outcomes and Mask Mandates, Adherence, and Attitudes, PLOS ONE, doi: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0252315
We extend previous studies on the impact of masks on COVID-19 outcomes by investigating an unprecedented breadth and depth of health outcom…
Kevin Esvelt, master's student Anika Ullah, and other experts talk about bi-directional contact tracing, privacy, and halting Covid-19.
What are radically sustainable methods for knitting, making and building in the age of the Anthropocene? How can humankind and members of o…
Novel technologies for additive manufacturing are enabling design and production at nature’s scale. We can seamlessly vary the physical pro…
Beast is an organic-like entity created synthetically by the incorporation of physical parameters into digital form-generation protocols. A…
French for "single shell," Monocoque stands for a construction technique that supports structural load using an object's external skin. Con…
Raycounting is a method for generating customized light-shading constructions by registering the intensity and orientation of light rays wi…
Kent Larson considers the societal stressors caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and those that the world will face post-pandemic.
Its potential here on Earth has much more widespread benefit potential, particularly in the era of COVID-19.
Dr. Jifei Ou, who received his PhD and graduated from the Tangible Media group in 2019, started a company called OPT Industries, Inc.,…
MIT spinout OPT Industries uses novel additive manufacturing systems to create intricately-designed products.
An MIT research team is using supercomputers to help develop a drug to treat the disease caused by the novel coronavirus.
Countries and cities around the world have resorted to unprecedented mobility restrictions to combat COVID-19 transmission. Here we exploit…
Heroy Samuel, Loaiza Isabella, Pentland Alex and O’Clery Neave 2021COVID-19 policy analysis: labour structure dictates lockdown mobility behaviourJ. R. Soc. Interface.182020103520201035 http://doi.org/10.1098/rsif.2020.1035
Online platform harnesses collective intelligence to accelerate recovery from Covid-19 and prepare for future disease outbreaks.
Camera Culture head Ramesh Raskar talks to Rashmi Mohan about his interdisciplinary research and entrepreneurial endeavors.
MIT biologist Kevin Esvelt discusses the biology of the pandemic and how gain-of-function research jeopardizes public safety.
N. Oliver, et al.(2020) Mobile phone data for informing public health actions across the COVID-19 pandemic life cycle, Science Advances, pp.1-10. DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abc0764
CIS research affiliate describes his goals in creating a webinar series exploring sustainable development in Africa.
CNBC talks to Neha Narula and other experts about the growing interest in central bank digital currencies.
This project aims to explore how the Covid-19 pandemic might have further increased social inequalities by impacting those who were …
MIT students on a mission to tackle the education crisis created by Covid-19The US school system is struggling to support all of its studen…
An MIT-developed vaccination card aims to cut through vaccine distribution chaos while preserving patient privacy.
How Canan Dagdeviren helped her students and members of the Conformable Decoders group adjust to working remotely
Esvelt and Lipsitch lay out a path for slowing the spread of B.1.1.7, and ensuring that we're better prepared for future pandemics.
Designed for mass manufacture and rapid deployment, we are building an open hardware, reusable, sterilizable, modular, and filter-media agn…
We propose an improved private count-mean-sketch data structure and show its applicability to differentially private contact trac…
DAMS: Meta-estimation of private sketch data structures for differentially private COVID-19 contact tracing, Praneeth Vepakomma, Subha Nawer Pushpita and Ramesh Raskar, PPML (Privacy Preserving Machine Learning workshop) at NeurIPS
Regular disinfection of hands and frequently touched surfaces is a critical factor in preventing the spread of infectious diseases and diso…
Chatterjee, P., Ponnapati, M., Kramme, C. et al. Targeted intracellular degradation of SARS-CoV-2 via computationally optimized peptide fusions. Commun Biol 3, 715 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-020-01470-7
Computational modeling yields a protein fragment that could bind to coronavirus spike proteins and destroy them.
It was believed that functionalities of G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) require full-length sequences which are negated by residue dele…
Unexpected findings in chemokine receptors once believed to be non-functional open up new fields of scientific inquiry.
Expert panelists discuss lessons learned from COVID-19 and progress made to better prepare our public health systems.
MIT hosts kickoff event of Massachusetts STEM Week — a statewide virtual celebration of K-12 education.
An inventor of CRISPR-based gene drive has some advice to improve science, ethics, and the life-saving potential of these technologies.
Three most promising PPE solutions selected by expert judges on MIT Pandemic Response CoLab.
Tulle-like DefeXtiles can be 3D printed with no custom software or hardware.
Papers from SafePaths: https://github.com/PrivateKit/PrivacyDocumentsSafe Paths is an MIT-led, free, open source technology that …
Split Learning: Distributed deep learning without sharing raw data Project Page: https://splitlearning.github.io/Abstract: C…
Meeting up with holographic versions of distant colleagues is a great change from flat, boring video calls
Website created as a rapid response to Covid-19 yields unexpected insights into what’s possible for reaching learners at a distance.
Read the FAQ that accompanies the op-ed by Kevin Esvelt and Carolyn P. Neuhaus, which answers questions about the research they're proposing
We don’t know, but the idea is hardly crazy—and if the answer is yes, we could save many lives long before a vaccine arrives
The purpose of the studio is to design and launch new online learning programs for the Lab itself and the communities we work with.
Revealing insights into the human condition and repairing brain disorders via novel tools for mapping and fixing brain computations
CabildoxLatAm: A space for digital participation in Latin AmericaIn the face of the challenges that have emerged and been exacerbated&…
The exhibition has now become a part of the MoMA's ‘Virtual Views’ program due to the pandemic.
Donald Trump and the coronavirus are all-consuming topics. What will happen to the rest of the world’s issues?