Innovation+Inventions – MIT Spectrum

Student Sam Chin experiments with melted sugar. Image: John Werner

Spring 2016

The Incredible, Edible Pneumatic Interface

Birds With Backpacks Monitor London’s Air Quality

New Tool Makes Webpages Load 34 Percent Faster

The platform for testing macroscopic heat release. A heating element is used to provide sufficient energy to trigger the solar thermal fuel materials, while an infrared camera monitors the temperature. The charged film (right) releases heat enabling a higher temperature relative to the uncharge film (left). Image: Courtesy of the researchers

Solar Heat on Demand

Spectrum’s Most-Read of 2015

MIT Hong Kong Innovation Node Slated to Launch in 2016

Continuum

Targeting the Future of Food

Fall 2015

Solar Breakthroughs, Powered by MIT

Fall 2015

“Solving Problems, Together, for the Betterment of Humankind”

Fall 2015

Sparking a New Generation of Power

Scores of young alumni are dreaming up fresh ways to harness nuclear, wind, and solar power; optimize our use of fossil fuels; and support development of energy solutions.