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Space Sustainability Rating

The Space Sustainability RatingThe Space Sustainability Rating design team—comprised of the World Economic Forum, the European Space Agency…
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Enhancing well-being through low-frequency resonance: a parametric analysis of space geometry

Resonance at low frequencies strongly influences a room's perception of sound, which can enhance or deteriorate the acoustic experience. Pr…
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Mediated Matter

Designing for, with, and by nature
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Tapis Magique: A Choreomusical Interactive Carpet

Ancient textiles have played a major role in the social, economic, and religious structures of communities around the world. Iconic, indige…
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Candlewax Rockets: A Green Alternative for In-Space Propulsion

The Space Enabled Research Group is exploring the potential of using beeswax and candle wax as potential fuels for satellites in space. Bee…
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Camera Culture

Making the invisible visible–inside our bodies, around us, and beyond–for health, work, and connection
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TIME's 200 Best Inventions of 2023: SeedLabs MicroPET

The SeedLabs MicroPET, which began as a Media Lab collaboration, was selected to TIME's 200 Best Inventions of 2023.
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Aguahoja

Programmable Water-Based Biocomposites for Digital Design and Fabrication across ScalesAguahoja is an exploration of nature’s design space.…
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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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The negative impact of vegetarian and vegan labels: Results from randomized controlled experiments

OverviewWe found that vegan and vegetarian labels commonly found on menu items have a significantly negative impact on consumer's likelihoo…
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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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Signal Kinetics researchers win Best Paper Awards at MobiCom 2023

Signal Kinetics members Sayed Saad Afzal, Waleed Akbar, Ahmed Allam, and Fadel Adib were honored with two Best Paper Awards at MobiCom 2023.
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Curiosity Unbounded Episode 4: Build your own superpower, then share it with the world

On Curiosity Unbounded, Professor Fadel Adib, head of the Signal Kinetics group, talks to MIT President Sally Kornbluth about his work.
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Autonomous micro-mobility simulation study

What will be the impact of shared autonomous micro-mobility systems? Will autonomy make the micro-mobility systems even more attractive?&nb…
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Understanding Molecular Evolution

Humanity has harnessed evolution to sculpt domesticated animals, crops, and molecules, but the process remains a black box. Which combinati…
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Mice Against Ticks - Preventing tick-borne disease by permanently immunizing mice

Lyme disease is the most common vector-borne infection in North America. People are infected when bitten by ticks; ticks are typically infe…
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Can autonomy make bike-sharing more sustainable?

Autonomous bicycles have recently been proposed as a new and more efficient approach to bicycle-sharing systems, but how do they compare fr…
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Envirome Monitoring with CRISPR Biosensors

In recent years, there has been an increase in low-cost and open-source electronic and chemical sensors that hobbyists, concerned citizens,…
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Space Fabrics: resilient electronic textiles for distributed sensing in low Earth orbit

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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SEI Analog Environments Study: Adaptation, Collaboration, and Resilience in Extreme Environments

SEI Analog Environments StudyProject OverviewThe way humans engage with space has changed rapidly over the past 60 years, moving from a mod…
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Tidmarsh Living Observatory Portal

The Tidmarsh Living Observatory Portal is a research project that focuses on the design and fabrication of a pavilion that will genera…
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Lunar Open Architecture

Building an open, shared, and collaborative future of lunar exploration.Explore the Lunar Open Architecture (LOA) at loa.mit.edu. …
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A clean alternative to one of the world’s most common ingredients

MIT spinoff C16 Biosciences, whose founders met in the Media Lab's Revolutionary Ventures course, has developed an alternative to palm oil,
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Space Webs as Infrastructure for distributed sensor networks and other infrastructure on low gravity bodies

We study textiles and nets as a base form for growing infrastructure and allowing reconfigurable sensing on low gravity bodies (for instanc…
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Project Captivate: A wearable platform for measurement and actuation across contexts

Project Captivate have been designed to serve as an easy and reliable platform to measure physiology in the real world.  We've desig…
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Battery-free wireless underwater camera

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…
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AI Alchemy Lab

Al·che·my is the process of transformation, creation, and combination. It is in this conceptual space that we frame the convergence of huma…
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Augmented Reality with X-Ray Vision

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…
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Feet on Earth, head in the stars

These five women at the MIT Media Lab are advancing aerospace science and research, driven by a love of our home planet.
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Machine learning approach to design acoustic experiences

Machine learning in acoustics is an emerging field with great potential yet to be explored. Previous research includes predicting acoustic …
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Gridlocked: Spaceship Earth

On the Gridlocked Podcast, Media Lab Director Dava Newman and other guests discuss the climate emergency, collaboration, and adaptation.
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The company behind this bottle wants to upend the Earth-destroying, $60 billion palm oil business

Shara Ticku, CEO of MIT spinoff C16 Biosciences, whose founders met in the Media Lab's Revolutionary Ventures class, talks to Fast Company.
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Could self-driving bikes change how we use cities?

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.
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The negative impact of vegetarian and vegan labels: Results from randomized controlled experiments with US consumers

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
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SpaceTouch

An astronaut's ability to leverage the sense of touch is substantially reduced when wearing a protective, pressurized spacesuit. We imagine…
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MAS.S64 - City Sci-fi: Speculative Movie Making Towards the Design of Future Cities

This class is a hands-on workshop on fiction narrative and movie making.
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Using Earth Observation-Informed Modeling to Inform Sustainable Development Decision-Making

Reid, Jack (2023). Using Earth Observation-Informed Modeling to Inform Sustainable Development Decision-Making (Doctoral dissertation). Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Towards a Congruent Hybrid Reality without Experiential Artifacts

​Situated VR: Towards a Congruent Hybrid RealityThe vision of Extended Reality (XR) systems is living in a hybrid reality or "Metaverse" wh…
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How’s Your City Doing? Ask the Honeybees.

Media Lab collaborators show that debris from urban beehives can be used to profile the microbiome of a city.
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From Spinach-Sent Emails to 'WALL-E': Where Plants and Technology Intersect

This collaboration explores the intersection of plants and tech, from WALL-E to Media Lab alum Harpreet Sareen’s Cyborg Botany projects.
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Brewing Palm Oil from Yeast

Slice of MIT profiles David Heller, co-founder of C16 Biosciences and producer of an environmentally friendly palm oil substitute.
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Two Mobility Futures 0∞

Two Mobility Futures 0∞ is a research project that encompasses storytelling, a democratic decision making platform, a city model, and an im…
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Translating the Music of Trees Into the Sounds of Opera

The tech-forward composer Tod Machover has made a chamber opera of Richard Powers’s novel “The Overstory,” featuring Joyce DiDonato.
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‘Overstory Overture’ – Tod Machover’s upcoming music magic at Lincoln Center

Tod Machover, head of Opera of the Future, talks about his career, his creative approach, and his latest work, "Overstory Overture".
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Q&A: Tod Machover on “Overstory Overture,” his new operatic work

Tod Machover, head of the Media Lab’s Opera of the Future group, talks to MIT News about his new operatic work, "Overstory Overture.".
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Trash to Treasure: Using text-to-image models to inform the design of physical artefacts

Does using text-to-image models like Stable Diffusion in the creative process affect what people make in the physical world?
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Why are we sending a plastic-eating enzyme to space?

A collaboration with researchers from the Space Exploration Initiative is investigating biological processes to upcycle plastics.
Inventing the future of digitally augmented objects and environments.
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MIT Media Lab graduates share their entrepreneurial journey during 2022 Newhall Lecture

Alumni Nan-Wei Gong and Anirudh Sharma will deliver the 2022 C. Ashton Newhall Endowed Lecture at Elon University.
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Palm oil is in almost everything, and it’s devastating rainforests. This Bill Gates-backed company used microbes to create an alternative

C16 Biosciences, whose founders met in the Media Lab's Revolutionary Ventures course, is producing a substitute for palm oil.
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Labby wants to make milk healthier and cows happier with better sensors

Media Lab spinoff Labby is developing tools to improve the quality of milk and the health of dairy cows.
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Breathing Architecture

Ekene Ijeoma's Breathing Pavilion installation explores the power and meaning of breath.
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Unconventional Investigations: Google's Chrisoula Kapelonis on a Human-Centric Approach, Interfaces for Living, and the Effects of Space

Chrisoula Kapelonis discusses the Media Lab's impact on her current work at the intersection of technology and built environment.
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Can autonomy make bicycle-sharing systems more sustainable? An environmental impact analysis

Naroa Coretti Sanchez, Luis Alonso Pastor, Kent Larson, Can autonomy make bicycle-sharing systems more sustainable? An environmental impact analysis, Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment, Volume 113, 2022, 103489, ISSN 1361-9209, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trd.2022.103489
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Battery-free wireless underwater camera featured as a research highlight in Nature Electronics

The Signal Kinetics lab's underwater camera project was chosen as a research highlight in the current issue of Nature Electronics
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Lunar Sensor Net

We are leveraging current Wireless Sensor Network technology to develop an easily deployable, and inexpensive wireless sensor (LunarWSN) ne…
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Dava Newman and Moriba Jah named to Commercial Space Transportation Advisory Committee (COMSTAC)

Committee members provide information, advice and recommendations to the FAA and DOT.
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NASA funds three projects to study orbital debris, including a collaboration between Profs. Danielle Wood, Moriba Jah, and Richard Linares

Orbital debris consists of human-made objects orbiting Earth that no longer serve a purpose.
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Scalable Cooperation

Reimagining human cooperation in the age of social media and artificial intelligence
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Open Ocean

Open Ocean
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Open Agriculture (OpenAg)

Open Agriculture Initiative (OpenAg)
Center for Civic Media
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Civic Media

Creating technology for social change
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Object-Based Media

Changing storytelling, communication, and everyday life through sensing, understanding, and new interface technologies
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Big Ocean, Big Data

More ocean data has been collected in the last two years than in all previous years combined, and we are on a path to continue to break tha…
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2018 GSC Graduate Teaching Award

Neil Gaikwad, a PhD student at the Media Lab, has received the GSC Graduate Teaching Award, an Institute Award presented annually to one MI…
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Foundations Provide Crucial Support for Novel Ideas

In MIT Spectrum, Gladys Ngetich of the Space Enabled research group discusses her passion for math and physics and her road to MIT.