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Recyclable Yarn
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MIT mechanical engineers hope to reduce textile waste with their elastic yarn, which is akin to spandex but much easier to recycle. “You just melt it in a barrel with a heater, and then you extrude and spin it into fibers,” says graduate student SeongHyeon Kim. “It’s like a spaghetti machine.”
3 Questions: Neural transparency and the future of AI design
Assistant Professor Pat Pataranutaporn describes a new interface that lets everyday users glimpse inside an AI's neural network before their chatbot ever says a word.
Breathable hydrogel could be a step toward self-cooling wearables // Vice
MIT researchers developed a breathable hydrogel material that is “packed with microscopic air tunnels inspired by the way human lungs move oxygen” to help heat and sweat to escape. “The material proved to be about 10 times more breathable than conventional hydrogels and retained about 95 percent of its airflow even after being stretched 10,000 times.”
