On May 10, 1985, a tricked-out van drove south on US Route 1 in Pawcatuck, Connecticut, on a sunny spring day. Every .01 miles, a 35-?millimeter movie camera mounted on the dashboard... Read more »
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“Normal” leaves a lot of people out, and it isn’t, by itself, an inherent good. In this issue of MIT Technology Review, you’ll read important stories of ongoing issues around accessibility. Lorena... Read more »
Madaline Zannes, IRL.COURTESY OF MADALINE ZANNES Qualifications needed: Technically, none; the metaverse isn’t an actual jurisdiction. There’s no “metaverse law,” and it’s not an area that lawyers can be licensed in—at least... Read more »
A nanoparticle sensor developed by Professor Sangeeta Bhatia, SM ’93, PhD ’97, and colleagues including former MIT postdoc Liangliang Hao, now an assistant professor at Boston University, could make it possible to detect and... Read more »
We must understand systemic inequalities so we can understand why and how to correct them. From both stories, we see how exclusion is less productive than inclusion. Leaving up barriers to women’s... Read more »
Using drop casting, in which a drop of liquid containing a suspension of the desired materials is deposited on a surface, dean of engineering Anantha Chandrakasan and his colleagues produced tags less... Read more »
In tests, 26 times more of a drug passed through pig skin than was possible without ultrasonic assistance. Meanwhile, researchers led by Ana Jaklenec and Institute Professor Robert Langer, ScD ’74, of... Read more »
Video of water spreading through the specialized sandgrouse feathers, under magnification, shows the uncoiling and spreading of the feather’s barbules as they become wet. MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY, HARVARD UNIVERSITY Using scanning electron microscopy,... Read more »
“Today, most robots are wheeled. But imagine that there’s a disaster scenario, flooding, or an earthquake, and we want robots to aid humans in the search-and-rescue process. We need the machines to... Read more »