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PostJune 27, 2025

Nth Cycle is bringing critical metals refining to the U.S.

A rendering of Nth Cycle's modular refining system called "The Oyster."

PodcastMay 29, 2025

E6: Dealing with dead batteries

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PostDecember 13, 2024

In a unique research collaboration, students make the case for less e-waste...

Left to right: Anastasia Duncan, Chris Rabe, and Jasmin Liu stand at the loading dock of MIT's Stata Center, where students and faculty go "crufting." Rabe facilitated an interdisciplinary working group of undergraduate and graduate students known as SERC Scholars to co-author a case study on the electronic hardware waste life cycle and climate justice.

PostNovember 1, 2024

As a closed Utah uranium mill seeks state approval to reopen, taxpayers are...

PostNovember 21, 2023

Merging science and systems thinking to make materials more sustainable

Through teaching, research, and coalition building, professor of materials science and engineering Elsa Olivetti’s lifelong passion for sustainability bolters MIT’s efforts to combat climate change.

PostOctober 19, 2023

3 Questions: What should scientists and the public know about nuclear waste...

Haruko Wainwright, an MIT assistant professor of nuclear science and engineering and of civil and environmental engineering, has organized an MIT workshop which aims to help nuclear engineers, policymakers, and academics learn about approaches to communicating accurate information about the management of nuclear waste.

PostDecember 17, 2021

Selective separation could help alleviate critical metals shortage

Pictured are rare earth oxides of neodymium, praseodymium, and dysprosium – all critical components for magnets – that have been processed with sulfidation technology. The violet regions are neodymium-rich sulfide, the green regions are praseodymium oxysulfide, and the orange regions are dysprosium rich sulfides and oxysulfides.

PostJuly 27, 2021

Investigating materials for safe, secure nuclear power

A longstanding interest in radiation’s effects on metals has drawn Michael Short into new areas such as nuclear security and microreactors.

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