We study textiles and nets as a base form for growing infrastructure and allowing reconfigurable sensing on low gravity bodies (for instanc…

Can we enable social connectivity between astronauts and people on Earth through an embodied agent?Astronauts actively communicate with the…

The Scratch Team invited young people from around the world to create Scratch projects designed specifically to be played in zero grav…

The brain uses space to index, organize, and retrieve memories. However, our sense of space depends on our perception of gravity. We p…

Each new technology forces us to confront who we are as humans.  As technological innovations in deep space exploration keep advancing…

Today, the environments that humans occupy in space are designed for survival. Humans are carefully shuttled to and from space, and during …

This project seeks to examine the effects of altered gravity on an individual’s physiology during parabolic flight. Specifically, we will c…

Expansion microscopy (ExM) is a new imaging modality developed by MIT Media Lab's Synthetic Neurobiology group. ExM allows biomolecules to …

Structurally, zero gravity means that we do not have to contend with architecture's greatest arch-nemesis, gravity. This opens up a new wor…

Gravity anchors all existence on Earth.It pulls a chaotic world to one single point in every moment of life. Even though gravity is everywh…

The future of human life outside of Earth will heavily depend on the ability to fabricate and manufacture things. Yet fabrication in space …