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This Rice University Professor Developed Cancer-Detection Technology

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Richards-Kortum is a professor of bioengineering at Rice University , in Houston, and codirector of the Rice360 Institute for Global Health Technologies , which is developing affordable medical equipment for underresourced hospitals. in 1990, she joined the University of Texas at Austin as a professor of biomedical engineering.

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BMW and MIT Self-Assembly Lab collaborate to design the first printed inflatable material; liquid printed pneumatics

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This commission is on display for the first time during the exhibition The Future Starts Here , which explores the power of design in shaping the world of tomorrow, at V&A museum in London. Interiors could even take on malleable, modular uses. —Martina Starke, head of BMW Brand Vision and BMW Brand Design at BMW Group.

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This Durable Strand of Jelly Can Block Pain

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When researchers Xinyue Liu and Siyuan Rao first began their collaboration at MIT, they treated this question literally. Broadly, hydrogels are soft networks of polymers and water, such as tofu or jelly. said Rao, a neuroscientist now at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Our body is also made of hydrogels.

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MIT team outlines path to low-cost solar-to-fuels devices; the artificial leaf

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A team of researchers at MIT has described a framework for efficiently coupling the power output of a series-connected string of single-band-gap solar cells to an electrochemical process that produces storable fuels. Watson Research Center) and former MIT graduate student Casandra Cox (now at Harvard). Source: Winkler et al.

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Robert Kahn: The Great Interconnector

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In 1965, Larry Roberts, then at the MIT Lincoln Laboratory , connected one computer in Massachusetts to another in California over a telephone line. He was off to Princeton University in the autumn of 1961, returning to Bell Labs for the next few summers. 1962 and Ph.D. There were 30 or 40 nodes on the ARPANET at the time.

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