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Researchers have developed a method that allows a 3D printer to identify the parameters of unknown materials to use algae, wood, and more.
MIT researchers identify facility-level factors that could worsen heat impacts for incarcerated people.
Over the last few decades, numerous scholars have documented the fact that in general, people of color and other socio-economically margina…
Historically, technology transfer has been associated with efforts to construct mechanisms allowing the exporting/importing of technol…
Exploring new forms of social justice through art
Data-driven strategies to meet the Dual Energy-Climate ChallengeThe global community stands at a critical juncture, facing the dual energy-…
"Autonomous operations are critical for the success, safety, and crew survival of NASA deep space missions beyond low Earth orbit, includin…
C. Paige, D.D. Haddad, Trent Piercy, J. Todd, F. Ward, A. Ekblaw, D. Newman. "Development and user study of the Operational Geology in a Virtual Environment (OGIVE) platform." Acta Astronautica, Volume 224, 2024, Pages 17-36, ISSN 0094-5765. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actaastro.2024.07.043.
Cody Paige, MIT AeroAstro Contributors: Ferrous Ward, MIT AeroAstro; Don Derek Haddad, ResEnv; Jess Todd, MIT…
HexSense is a kind of sensor node that can be ballistically deployed to the desired area and collect data of interest. Each sensor node is …
To sustain long term human presence on the moon, the problem of exposure to ionizing radiation must be addressed to protect astronauts’ lon…
The lunar Navigation and Observation Mobile Architecture Design (lunarNOMAD) is a modular inflatable mobile science laboratory. lunarNOMAD …
With the growing presence of commercial spaceflight and NASA’s Lunar Artemis program, plans to establish a permanent lunar presence are in …
With NASA planning permanent bases in space and on the moon, MIT students develop prototypes for habitats far from planet Earth.
MicroPET is an autonomous payload for enzymatic reactions and microbial cultivation with fully programmable serial passaging and sampl…
The Design
Urban populations around the world are rapidly growing. To improve livability, urban residents must reduce dependency on fossil fuels and p…
A lightweight research platform to develop autonomous technology Designed to transform bicycle-sharing systems into an on-demand mobil…
COVID-19 pandemic served as a catalyst for reimagining urban spaces and emphasized the need for walkable, life-work balanced coummunities.&…
They demonstrate the design in a paper published in PNAS Nexus.
An Alternative Autonomous Revolution System design for emerging urban contexts and societal aspirationsThe Persuasive Electric Vehicle…
Urban mobility is changing at an increasingly rapid pace. In this context, stakeholders such as governments and mobility operators ne…
Kajale, S.N., Nguyen, T., Chao, C.A. et al. Current-induced switching of a van der Waals ferromagnet at room temperature. Nat Commun 15, 1485 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-45586-4
New generative AI technologies (such as the Generative Adversarial Network, or GAN) can allow us to imagine new species. Hidden within the …
Final projects created in MAS.S66 City Sci-Fi: Speculative Movie Making Towards the Design of Ecology Futures, taught in Fall 20…
The challenge of understanding pandemics, illustrated by the recent COVID-19 outbreak, has significantly impacted global health and economi…
City Sci-fi // Fall 2023 A City Science workshopFIRST CLASS: September 13th (WED) - 2pm, E15-359Instructors:&n…
One of the six research methods used by the Space Enabled research group is creating models of complex systems by drawing on techniques fro…
On Bloomberg TV, Professor Danielle Wood talks to Romaine Bostick about the use of satellite data for environmental management.
The Space Sustainability RatingThe Space Sustainability Rating design team—comprised of the World Economic Forum, the European Space Agency…
Resonance at low frequencies strongly influences a room's perception of sound, which can enhance or deteriorate the acoustic experience. Pr…
Designing for, with, and by nature
The Space Enabled Research Group is exploring the potential of using beeswax and candle wax as potential fuels for satellites in space. Bee…
The SeedLabs MicroPET, which began as a Media Lab collaboration, was selected to TIME's 200 Best Inventions of 2023.
Programmable Water-Based Biocomposites for Digital Design and Fabrication across ScalesAguahoja is an exploration of nature’s design space.…
OverviewWe found that vegan and vegetarian labels commonly found on menu items have a significantly negative impact on consumer's likelihoo…
The Power of WITHOUT is a research theme in the City Science group. The theme proposes that heavy infrastructure solutions are not financia…
Signal Kinetics members Sayed Saad Afzal, Waleed Akbar, Ahmed Allam, and Fadel Adib were honored with two Best Paper Awards at MobiCom 2023.
On Curiosity Unbounded, Professor Fadel Adib, head of the Signal Kinetics group, talks to MIT President Sally Kornbluth about his work.
What will be the impact of shared autonomous micro-mobility systems? Will autonomy make the micro-mobility systems even more attractive?&nb…
Humanity has harnessed evolution to sculpt domesticated animals, crops, and molecules, but the process remains a black box. Which combinati…
Lyme disease is the most common vector-borne infection in North America. People are infected when bitten by ticks; ticks are typically infe…
In recent years, there has been an increase in low-cost and open-source electronic and chemical sensors that hobbyists, concerned citizens,…
Overview: The outermost skin of a space-based structure is designed using materials known to protect against the harsh elements of space. S…
SEI Analog Environments StudyProject OverviewThe way humans engage with space has changed rapidly over the past 60 years, moving from a mod…
The Tidmarsh Living Observatory Portal is a research project that focuses on the design and fabrication of a pavilion that will genera…
Building an open, shared, and collaborative future of lunar exploration.Explore the Lunar Open Architecture (LOA) at loa.mit.edu. …
MIT spinoff C16 Biosciences, whose founders met in the Media Lab's Revolutionary Ventures course, has developed an alternative to palm oil,
We study textiles and nets as a base form for growing infrastructure and allowing reconfigurable sensing on low gravity bodies (for instanc…
Project Captivate have been designed to serve as an easy and reliable platform to measure physiology in the real world. We've desig…
More than 95% of the ocean has never been observed by humans, even though the ocean plays the largest role in the world's climate system, h…
Al·che·my is the process of transformation, creation, and combination. It is in this conceptual space that we frame the convergence of huma…
X-AR is an augmented reality (AR) system that gives humans "X-Ray Vision" X-AR is a new AR headset that enables users to see things th…
These five women at the MIT Media Lab are advancing aerospace science and research, driven by a love of our home planet.
Machine learning in acoustics is an emerging field with great potential yet to be explored. Previous research includes predicting acoustic …
On the Gridlocked Podcast, Media Lab Director Dava Newman and other guests discuss the climate emergency, collaboration, and adaptation.
Shara Ticku, CEO of MIT spinoff C16 Biosciences, whose founders met in the Media Lab's Revolutionary Ventures class, talks to Fast Company.
Kent Larson, head of the Media Lab’s City Science group, and PhD student Naroa Coretti Sánchez talk about the group's work and philosophy.
Berke, A., & Larson, K. (2023). The negative impact of vegetarian and vegan labels: Results from randomized controlled experiments with US consumers. Appetite. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.appet.2023.106767
An astronaut's ability to leverage the sense of touch is substantially reduced when wearing a protective, pressurized spacesuit. We imagine…
This class is a hands-on workshop on fiction narrative and movie making.
Reid, Jack (2023). Using Earth Observation-Informed Modeling to Inform Sustainable Development Decision-Making (Doctoral dissertation). Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Situated VR: Towards a Congruent Hybrid RealityThe vision of Extended Reality (XR) systems is living in a hybrid reality or "Metaverse" wh…
Media Lab collaborators show that debris from urban beehives can be used to profile the microbiome of a city.
This collaboration explores the intersection of plants and tech, from WALL-E to Media Lab alum Harpreet Sareen’s Cyborg Botany projects.
Slice of MIT profiles David Heller, co-founder of C16 Biosciences and producer of an environmentally friendly palm oil substitute.