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Center for Integrated Photonic SystemsA major MIT initiative to engage industry, CIPS was created to provide leadership and direction for research and development in photonics; to foster a...
This alumna climbed Mt. EverestValerie Hovland '98 documented the adventure.
Center of Mass TrajectoryOdd-shaped objects with their centers of mass marked by orange paint are thrown. While the objects appear to follow very wobbly trajectories when view...
Subatomic cloud chamber
Video: Eli Sidman; additional Editing: Melanie Gonick
Subatomic particles such as cosmic ray muons, alpha particles, and high energy electrons are striking our bodies all the time. In the cloud chamber, these particles ionize air molecules, creating delicate cloud trails by condensing supersaturated alcohol vapor.
- Center for Integrated Photonic Systems
- A major MIT initiative to engage industry, CIPS was created to provide leadership and direction for research and development in photonics; to foster a...
- This alumna climbed Mt. Everest
- Valerie Hovland '98 documented the adventure.
- Center of Mass Trajectory
- Odd-shaped objects with their centers of mass marked by orange paint are thrown. While the objects appear to follow very wobbly trajectories when view...
- Solar energy research
at MIT - Professor of Chemical Engineering Paula Hammond discusses the Institute's concerted effort.
- Chandra X-ray observatory
- Since its launch in 1999, the Chandra X-ray Observatory has been NASA's flagship mission for X-ray astronomy, taking its place in the fleet of "Great ...
- Stata bioswale
- MIT mitigates stormwater runoff from the Stata Center through an innovative, state-of-the art (for an urban area) stormwater control and treatment sys...
- Thought
for food - Heather Paxson, an associate professor in MIT's Department of Anthropology, discusses what makes an artisan cheese.
- It's chain reaction time!
- In 2008, more than 1,300 people came to MIT's Rockwell Cage Gymnasium to participate in MIT's 11th Annual Friday After Thanksgiving Chain Reac...
- What can
we do? - Aimed at both experts and the public, the Climate Collaboratorium provides a forum for discussing, testing and selecting models, plans and arguments a...
- Muriel Médard
- Professor Médard on what it's like at MIT's Research Laboratory of Electronics.
- Audio, visual
- Metropath(ologies) is an installation about living in a world overflowing with information and non-stop communication.
- Electrochromic windows
- In this design, the relationship between both the active and passive elements of the architecture are programmed as an interactive system where each c...
