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Space Enabled

Advancing justice in Earth's complex systems using designs enabled by space
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City Science

Looking beyond smart cities
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Theme | Transformable Environments and Sensing

We are developing hyper-efficient places of living that are dynamically transformable so that compact, more affordable spaces have three ti…
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Signal Kinetics

Inventing, building, and deploying wireless sensor technologies to address complex problems in society, industry, and ecology
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City Science Network

MIT City Science has developed an international network of cooperative City Science LabsFounded a decade ago, the City Science Network conn…
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Theme | Infrastructure Hubs for Informal Settlements

How can we serve 2.5 billion people without access to centralized infrastructure for basic services?By 2050, more than 2.5 billion people a…
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Sensor platform for assessment of water usage patterns in informal settlements

Rico, A., Larson, K. & Gamboa, M. Sensor platform for assessment of water usage patterns in informal settlements. Sci Rep 13, 18958 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-46236-3
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The Power of Without

The Power of WITHOUT is a research theme in the City Science group. The theme proposes that heavy infrastructure solutions are not financia…
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Water production from air with piezoelectric ultrasound and functional polymers

In arid climates, the atmosphere is a source of water, but its extraction is energy-prohibitive.Many countries have arid climates in signi…
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Responsive Environments

Augmenting and mediating human experience, interaction, and perception with sensor networks
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Media Lab Research Theme: Life with AI

Life with AI | Designing the future of smart systems to improve the human experience
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Media Lab Research Theme: Future Worlds

Future Worlds | Design and action for the future we want to live in
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Media Lab Research Theme: Cultivating Creativity

Cultivating Creativity | Catalyzing a global movement enabling everyone to unlock and unleash their individual and collective creativity
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Media Lab Research Theme: Connected Mind + Body

Connected Mind + Body | Revolutionizing the future of mental and physical wellbeing
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Opera of the Future

Extending expression, learning, and health through innovations in musical composition, performance, and participation
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FLOW SYMPHONY

Professor Tod Machover conducted the world premiere of FLOW Symphony at Seoul Arts Center. Scored for string orchestra and electronics, FLO…
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Vibrating ceramic ring produces drinking water from humid air in few minutes

MIT engineers design a system that uses a vibrating ceramic ring to produce clean drinking water from humid air in several minutes.
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Ultrasonic device dramatically speeds harvesting of water from the air

The system can be paired with any atmospheric water harvesting material to shake out drinking water in minutes instead of hours.
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See how researchers harvest water from the air | CNN

CNN spotlights how MIT researchers developed a new ultrasonic device that can extract clean drinking water from moisture in the atmosphere.
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City Science Lab @ Guadalajara

The City Science Lab@Guadalajara is a collaboration with the University of Guadalajara (UdeG), a network composed of 15 campuses within the…
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MIT team awarded 2024 J-WAFS seed grant

Dr. Boriskina and PhD student Ikra Shuvo receive J-WAFS grant to develop energy-efficient atmospheric water harvesting technology.
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RF-EATS: Food and liquid sensing in practical environments using RFIDs

RF-EATS is a new system that can verify the authenticity of food and liquids in closed containers without opening them or requiring an…
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Scalable and Ultra-Low Power Ocean IoT

We present the design, implementation, and evaluation of 𝑈2𝐵, a technology that enables scalable ad ultra-low power ocean IoT.  At the…
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Battery-Free Underwater GPS

Can we build a battery-free underwater GPS? While underwater localization is a long-studied problem,  we seek to bring it to batt…
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Axol

A distributed sensing system for managing water resources in informal communities.
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QTY code designs for water-soluble beta-barrel transmembrane proteins

In addition to a large number of membrane proteins that comprise most alpha-helix transmembrane segments, there are also many transmembrane…
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Protein study could help researchers develop new antibiotics

Researchers created a water-soluble version of an important bacterial enzyme, which can be used in drug screens to identify new antibiotics.
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FathomNet: A global image database for enabling artificial intelligence in the ocean

Katija, K., Orenstein, E., Schlining, B. et al. FathomNet: A global image database for enabling artificial intelligence in the ocean. Sci Rep 12, 15914 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-19939-2
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MIT engineers build a battery-free, wireless underwater camera

The device could help scientists explore unknown regions of the ocean, track pollution, or monitor the effects of climate change.
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Open Ocean

Open Ocean
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Q&A: Climate Grand Challenges finalists on using data and science to forecast climate-related risk

Faculty leaders highlight innovations that can close longstanding knowledge gaps and reimagine how the world responds to the climate crisis.
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Ocean vital signs

MIT scientists hope to deploy a fleet of drones to get a better sense of how much carbon the ocean is absorbing, + how much more it can take
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The catalyzing potential of J-WAFS seed grants

Signal Kinetics head Fadel Adib and other junior faculty members talk about the ways the J-WAFS’ seed grant program has catalyzed their work
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Battery-Free Subsea Internet-of-Things

We present Piezo-Acoustic Backscatter (PAB), the first technology that enables backscatter networking in underwater environments. PAB relie…
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Why this deep-sea explorer thinks diversity is so important for science

To oceanographer Katy Croff Bell, the seas’ uncharted depths are full of opportunities to engage women and people of color in science.
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An underwater navigation system powered by sound

New approach could spark an era of battery-free ocean exploration, with applications ranging from marine conservation to aquaculture.
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How to send underwater messages without batteries

A new device extracts energy from ambient noise
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Low-cost invasive species management in coastal ecosystems: A case study in Benin

All over Africa, experts use satellite Earth Observation (EO) data for applications such as monitoring crop health or assessing the risk of…
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Underwater energy harvesting with a data-link twist

A novel acoustic-based backscatter design offers an innovative scheme for underwater energy harvesting and data transmission.
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Ufuoma Ovienmhada of MIT Media Lab Space Enabled group is using satellite data to curb the effects of invasive species in Africa

Ufuoma Ovienmhada discusses her work using satellite data to help manage invasive water hyacinth in Benin.
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MIT creates battery-free sensor for deep-sea and extraterrestrial exploration

An underwater internet of things monitoring the effects of climate change or sampling waters on distant planets
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A battery-free sensor for underwater exploration

Submerged system uses the vibration of “piezoelectric” materials to generate power and send and receive data.