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PostFebruary 6, 2025

Seeking climate connections among the oceans’ smallest organisms

By combining measurements that he takes in the ocean with experiments in his MIT lab, Andrew Babbin is working to understand the connections between microbes and nitrogen in the ocean.

PostJanuary 12, 2025

Designing tiny filters to solve big problems

“I would love to see a world where we could eliminate thermal separations, and where heat is no longer a problem in creating the things that we need and producing the energy that we need,” Zachary Smith says.

PostJanuary 3, 2025

An abundant phytoplankton feeds a global network of marine microbes

Prochlorococcus tend to shed their molecular baggage at night. For a microbe called SAR11, the researchers found that the nighttime snack acts as a relaxant of sorts.

PostDecember 18, 2024

Surface-based sonar system could rapidly map the ocean floor at high resolu...

MIT Lincoln Laboratory

Left to right: Stephen Murray, Jason Valenzano, David Kindler, Paul Ryu, and Andrew March deploy their 8 m × 8 m sonar array test bed, held together by a metal frame, in Boston Harbor for sea tests.

PostDecember 4, 2024

A new catalyst can turn methane into something useful

MIT chemical engineers designed a two-part catalyst that can convert methane gas to useful products. The catalyst consists of iron-modified aluminum silicate plus an enzyme called alcohol oxidase (enzyme not pictured).

PodcastNovember 25, 2024

Rising to the climate challenge

MIT Energy Initiative

PodcastNovember 25, 2024

Decarbonizing energy: The government’s role

MIT Energy Initiative

PostNovember 20, 2024

Reality check on technologies to remove carbon dioxide from the air

MIT Energy Initiative

Pictured are two of the four absorber units at Climeworks’ direct air capture and storage plant, Orca, in Hellisheidi, Iceland. Each absorber unit can remove about 1,000 tons of carbon dioxide per year.

PodcastNovember 20, 2024

Making the case for climate optimism

MIT Energy Initiative

Illustrations of energy infrastructure and type saying Making the case for climate optimism.

PostNovember 14, 2024

Dancing with currents and waves in the Maldives

Underwater structures created by MIT’s Self-Assembly Lab and Invena, an organization based out of the Maldives.

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