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The funding would support conservation efforts in the Chagrin River Floodplain, reduce single-use plastics and introduce students to new trash-cleanup technology.
MIT researchers developed a new approach to building deformable underwater robots, using simple repeating substructures. The team demonstrated the new system in two different example configurations, one like an eel and the other a wing-like hydrofoil.
The funds are part of the $1.7-trillion federal government omnibus funding bill for fiscal year 2023.
A new analysis considers natural fluctuations and predictability to evaluate which parts of an ecosystem are most threatened by climate change and other disturbances.
An MIT team has come up with a predictive way of evaluating ecosystems to rank the relative vulnerabilities of different species, and to detect species that are under threat but could otherwise go unnoticed.