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Aguahoja—a winner of Fast Company’s 2020 World Changing Ideas Awards—rethinks the paradigm of recycling.
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"Space belongs to all countries—every country deserves equal opportunities to pursue scientific achievement for societal benefit."
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Esvelt's career has gone from straight science into ethics and safety.
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The following Media Lab students joined the MIT India Initiative in Mumbai for this workshop.
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Danielle Wood's official testimony from the congressional hearing for the Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics.
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Kevin Esvelt and other experts discuss potential technological approaches to combating mosquito-borne diseases.
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Congratulations to Fluid Interfaces alum Anirudh Sharma and his spinoff Graviky Labs!
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Danielle Wood discusses the satellite technology research and other work underway in her Space Enabled research group.
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Lyme disease is the most common vector-borne infection in North America. People are infected when bitten by ticks; ticks are typically in...
Humanity is facing thorny problems on all fronts. These folks are working to solve them—and trying to avoid the unintended consequences.
Noah Wilson-Rich suggests that urban beekeeping might play a role in revitalizing both a city and a species.
Bees are dying off in record numbers, but ecologist Noah Wilson-Rich is interested in something else: Where are bees healthy and thriving?
For decades, the International Space Station (ISS) has operated as a bastion of international cooperation and a unique testbed for microg...
Summer’s great indoor-temperature debate rages on.
Elowan is a cybernetic lifeform, a plant in direct dialogue with a machine. Using its own internal electrical signals, the plant is inter...
Joi Ito calls for responsible stewardship of the commons beyond our planet.
Anirudh Sharma was at a conference in India when he noticed black particles accumulating on his white shirt.
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Living Observatory is an initiative for documenting and interpreting ecological change that will allow people, individually and collectiv...
Doppelmarsh is a cross-reality sensor data browser built for experimenting with presence and multimodal sensory experiences. Built on evo...
TurboTrack is a 3D localization system for fine-grained robotic tasks, with unique capability to localize backscatter nodes with sub-cent...
ArtBoat is a tool for communities to make collaborative light paintings in public spaces and reimagine the future of their cities. ...
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EEEeb Spring 2019: Urban OceansMarch 24, April 7 and 21, May 19, June 2 To register, please visit this lin...
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The 2017 and 2018 fires in California were the air quality equivalent of the Daiichi nuclear disaster.
Global climate change is projected to change our planet this century and beyond.
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Climate change presents a grave threat to overall human well-being, including mental health.
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If we are unable to adapt to climate change, it may amplify the marginal gap between citizen need and government assistance.
An Alternative Autonomous Revolution System design for emerging urban contexts and societal aspirationsThe Persuasive Electric Vehic...
Mission Wildlife is a research collaboration between San Diego Zoo Global and the MIT Center for Civic Media to explore the pot...
The Safecast has revolutionized citizen science.
SCHOOL, ENERGY AWARENESSUsing TerMITes in the Santa Coloma School in Andorra we want to help students understand the relation between the...
What counts here—first and last—is not so-called knowledge of so-called facts, but vision—seeing. Seeing here implies Schauen [to see] (a...
Move aside, smiley faces, clapping hands and dancing ladies. Emoji are finally ready to tackle serious issues....The project may be the f...
How well have humans adapted to the current climate, and how will we adapt to new climate complexities?This week, the Climate Conversatio...
TreeSense, a sensory VR experience that allows users to experience the full lifecycle of a tree, was featured in the Global Grad Sh...
The Synthetic Apiary proposes a new kind of environment, bridging urban and organismic scales by exploring one of the most important orga...
The Persuasive Electric Vehicle (PEV) is an agile, on-demand, shared, and functionally hybrid tricycle.
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The CityCar electric automobile, developed and prototyped by Smart Cities, is designed to meet the demand for enclosed personal mobility ...