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PostOctober 21, 2020

Engineers design a heated face mask to filter and inactivate coronaviruses

A team of researchers from MIT now hopes to go one step further than conventional masks that filter out viruses and create a mask that inactivates viruses using heat.

PostOctober 14, 2020

MIT.nano receives LEED Platinum certification

PostOctober 14, 2020

Solar-powered system extracts drinkable water from “dry” air

A prototype of the new two-stage water harvesting system (center right), was tested on an MIT rooftop. The device, which was connected to a laptop for data collection and was mounted at an angle to face the sun, has a black solar collecting plate at the top, and the water it produced flowed into two tubes at bottom.

PostAugust 28, 2020

The Timing and Effectiveness of Subsidies for Agricultural Technology Adopt...

Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL)

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PostAugust 10, 2020

3 Questions: Asegun Henry on five “grand thermal challenges” to stem th...

MIT’s Asegun Henry on tackling five “grand thermal challenges” to stem the global warming tide: “Our mission here is to save humanity from extinction due to climate change.”

PostAugust 6, 2020

When the chemical industry met modern architecture

MIT graduate student Jessica Varner has explored how the chemical industry wooed the building and construction industry with new synthetic materials at the turn of the 20th century. The result, she writes in her dissertation, was “one of the most successful, and toxic, material transformations in modern history.”

PostJuly 22, 2020

Environmental Technologies in Buildings

Photo of a modern house with movable wooden slat panels to shade large exterior windows.

PostJuly 22, 2020

Chemists make tough plastics recyclable

Thermoset polymers, found in car parts and electrical appliances, have to be durable and heat-resistant, but typically cannot be easily recycled or broken down after use. MIT chemists have now developed a way to modify thermoset plastics that allows them to be more easily broken down without compromising their mechanical strength.

PostJuly 7, 2020

Innovations in environmental training for the mining industry

MINE Program students and other program participants at a hackathon in Salvador, Brazil, are pictured here before the Covid-19 pandemic interrupted such gatherings.

PostApril 3, 2020

Explained: Cement vs. concrete — their differences, and opportunities fo...

After water, concrete is the most consumed material on Earth. Researchers in the MIT Concrete Sustainability Hub study how to reduce its impact.

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