After a decades-long quest, The MIT-Caltech collaboration LIGO Laboratories has detected gravitational waves, opening a new era in our exploration of the universe. Read more: http://news.mit.edu/2016/ligo-first-d… Produced by MIT Video Productions and MIT News Office Producer/Editor: Bill Lattanzi  Footage courtesy of: Hans Peter Bischof; California Institute of Technology; Jet Propulsion Laboratory; LIGO, A Passion for Understanding, by Kai Staats; MIT; National Science Foundation; Roger Smith; Virginia Trimble, widow of Joseph Weber; Wikipedia Commons Guest AuthorAll Guest Author Posts are submitted or additional content Wave Chronicle has added to the website. To be a Guest Author please visit our "Post Your Article" page.More Posts - Website

MIT scientists have come up with a theory to predict exactly how much light is transmitted through a material, given its thickness and degree of stretch. Using this theory, they accurately predicted the changing transparency of a rubber-like polymer structure as it was stretched like a spring and inflated like a balloon. (Learn more: http://news.mit.edu/2016/tune-polymer…) Video: Melanie Gonick/MIT Music sampled from, “The Zeppelin” by Blue Dot Sessions http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Blu… http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b… Guest AuthorAll Guest Author Posts are submitted or additional content Wave Chronicle has added to the website. To be a Guest Author please visit our "Post Your Article" page.More Posts - Website

For the first time, researchers at MIT have found a way to control the boiling process. The system could improve the efficiency of electric power generation and other processes. (Learn more: http://mitsha.re/TRIQl)  Turning boiling on and off on a surface with separately addressable electrodes to the tune of Ode to Joy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pf8g… Video: Melanie Gonick/MIT Additional imagery courtesy of the researchers Guest AuthorAll Guest Author Posts are submitted or additional content Wave Chronicle has added to the website. To be a Guest Author please visit our "Post Your Article" page.More Posts - Website

Buried just beneath the Earth’s surface, beneath roots and soil, is the solid bedrock of Earth’s crust. Weathering of bedrock is essential to life on Earth. Now scientists have found a way to predict the depth and extent of bedrock weathering given a location’s topography. (Learn more:http://mitsha.re/U0OX2)  Video produced and edited by Melanie Gonick/MIT Additional imagery and videos: Stephen Martel, Seulgi Moon and Taylor Perron Music sampled from “After Midnight” by Maxim Komyshev http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Max… http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b… Guest AuthorAll Guest Author Posts are submitted or additional content Wave Chronicle has added to the website. To be a Guest Author please visit our "Post Your Article" page.More Posts - Website

For the first time, researchers have achieved defect healing and marked strengthening through cyclic deformation in nanoscale structures. The novel method is called “cyclic healing.” (Learn more: http://mitsha.re/TGuIP) Video produced and edited by Melanie Gonick/MIT Additional footage courtesy of the researchers  Music sampled from “Curious by Jon Luc Hefferman http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Jon… http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b… Guest AuthorAll Guest Author Posts are submitted or additional content Wave Chronicle has added to the website. To be a Guest Author please visit our "Post Your Article" page.More Posts - Website

Using ultrasound waves, researchers have found a way to enable rapid delivery of drugs to the gastrointestinal (GI) tract. This approach could make it easier to deliver drugs to patients suffering from GI disorders. (Learn more: http://mitsha.re/TGzKW) Video produced and edited by Melanie Gonick/MIT Animation courtesy of the researchers Music sampled from “Water & Spirit” by James Joshua Otto http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Jam… http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b… Guest AuthorAll Guest Author Posts are submitted or additional content Wave Chronicle has added to the website. To be a Guest Author please visit our "Post Your Article" page.More Posts - Website