Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Uploads Play all

• 28:53

  • Play next
  • Play now

  Bengt Holmström wins Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences (full press conference) - Duration: 28 minutes.

  • 12 hours ago
  • 869 views

  Bengt Holmström, an influential MIT economist and long-time faculty member, has been named a winner of the 2016 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, for his work ...

  • CC
• 1:45

  • Play next
  • Play now

  Brain Matters - Duration: 105 seconds.

  • 1 week ago
  • 1,402 views

  How do we learn about our environment from the experiences of others? What circuits in the brain prompt us to avoid something bad, or drive us toward something good? Stephen A. Allsop PhD ’16, a st...

  • CC
• 2:39

  • Play next
  • Play now

  Furry Wetsuits - Duration: 2 minutes, 39 seconds.

  • 1 week ago
  • 63,394 views

  Inspired by hairy, semiaquatic mammals such as beavers and sea otters, a group of MIT engineers are fabricating fur-like rubbery pelts learn how these mammals stay warm and even dry while diving un...

  • CC
• 2:15

  • Play next
  • Play now

  CarbonCounter: Online app allows consumers to research low-emissions vehicles - Duration: 2 minutes, 15 seconds.

  • 2 weeks ago
  • 4,048 views

  A group of MIT researchers took a detailed look at 125 U.S. auto models and found those emitting less carbon are the least expensive to drive overall. Their CarbonCounter app allows you to look up ...

  • CC
• 5:16

  • Play next
  • Play now

  Ingegneria Classica (Classical Engineering) - Duration: 5 minutes, 16 seconds.

  • 3 weeks ago
  • 2,922 views

  The Roman Empire was the high-tech hub of its day. In the summer of 2016, students from MIT went on a field trip to understand why — and to put that knowledge to work on the future.

  • CC
• 6:34

  • Play next
  • Play now

  MIT Monkey Ballers build a plane for Red Bull Flugtag 2016 - Duration: 6 minutes, 34 seconds.

  • 1 month ago
  • 21,985 views

  Red Bull Flugtag is an annual event in which competitors attempt to fly a homemade aircraft off a platform 33 feet in the air. This year, Flugtag came to Boston and the MIT Monkey Ballers entered t...

  • CC
• 5:02

  • Play next
  • Play now

  Seeing the unseen: Thank you to those who keep MIT running - Duration: 5 minutes, 2 seconds.

  • 1 month ago
  • 12,321 views

  The MIT Department of Facilities supports the Institute 24/7. Thank you to everyone who works to keep MIT running smoothly.
  
  Video: Melanie Gonick/MIT
  
  Campus blueprints: Branden M. Etheridge
  Kill...
• 1:38

  • Play next
  • Play now

  Making droplets stick - Duration: 98 seconds.

  • 1 month ago
  • 14,839 views

  When farmers spray their fields, a significant portion of the spray bounces right off the plants and lands on the ground. But now, by using a clever combination of two inexpensive, polymer additive...

  • CC
• 2:11

  • Play next
  • Play now

  Brain imaging at multiple size scales - Duration: 2 minutes, 11 seconds.

  • 2 months ago
  • 13,510 views

  MIT researchers have developed a new technique for imaging brain tissue at multiple scales, allowing them to peer at molecules within cells or take a wider view of the long-range connections betwee...

  • CC
• 3:21

  • Play next
  • Play now

  Are musical tastes cultural or hardwired in the brain? - Duration: 3 minutes, 21 seconds.

  • 3 months ago
  • 19,677 views

  A new study out of MIT and Brandeis University suggests musical preferences are cultural in origin and not hardwired in the brain. (Learn more: http://mitsha.re/G24M302dDA9)
  
  Video: Melanie Gonick/...

  • CC
• 1:53

  • Play next
  • Play now

  New hydrogel that doesn't dry out - Duration: 113 seconds.

  • 3 months ago
  • 16,969 views

  Engineers at MIT have found a way to prevent hydrogels from dehydrating, with a method that binds hydrogels to elastomers such as rubber and silicone. (Learn more: http://news.mit.edu/2016/tough-hy...

  • CC
• 3:34

  • Play next
  • Play now

  MIT.nano: Innovation - Duration: 3 minutes, 34 seconds.

  • 3 months ago
  • 6,299 views

  MIT is constructing, at the heart of the campus, a new 200,000-square-foot center for nanoscience and nanotechnology. This advanced facility will be a place for tinkering with atoms, one by one—and...

  • CC

• View all