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Merging AI and Underwater Photography
The LOBSTgER research initiative at MIT Sea Grant explores how generative AI can expand scientific storytelling by building on field-based photographic data.
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Fluid Evolution
High-speed videos of a droplet splashing into a pool could help predict how rainstorms and irrigation systems may impact watery surfaces and aerosolize surface particles in agricultural runoff.
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Inspired by Nature
A new medical device that can stick to soft surfaces inside the GI tract is based on the ‘suction cup’ organ evolved by remora, a group known as suckerfish that use it to hitch rides on other animals.
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Explore MechE Classes
Discover both undergraduate and graduate mechanical engineering classes at MIT on our updated Class Offerings page.
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Spectacular crack patterns
A new study by Paul Lilin and Irmgard Bischofberger, rationalizes the spectacular crack patterns formed by drying drops of a colloidal suspension by considering the energy released by each successive crack.
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