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PostMay 30, 2025

$MIT engineers developed a membrane, pictured, that filters the components of crude oil by their molecular size, an advance that could dramatically reduce the amount of energy needed for crude oil fractionation.$

PostMay 22, 2025

Study: Climate change may make it harder to reduce smog in some regions

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A modeling study shows that global warming will likely make it harder to reduce ground-level ozone, a respiratory irritant that is a key component of smog, by cutting nitrogen oxide emissions.

PostMay 22, 2025

New landfill rules were supposed to cut methane. Michigan’s still falling...

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A large red truck drops off trash into a pile on the South Kent County Landfill.

PostMay 21, 2025

Startup enables 100-year bridges with corrosion-resistant steel

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“Across the U.S., the typical bridge deck lasts about 30 years on average — we’re enabling 100-year lifetimes,” says Allium Engineering co-founder and CEO Steven Jepeal PhD ’21.

PostMay 16, 2025

A day in the life of MIT MBA student David Brown

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MIT Sloan MBA student David Brown, the co-founder of Helix Carbon, walks through Kendall Square in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

PostMay 7, 2025

A sustainable future is possible for Houston—local officials just have li...

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An overhead view of N Green River Dr. in Houston.

PostMay 1, 2025

SLB joins the MIT.nano Consortium

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Left to right: Lalitha Venkataramanan, scientific advisor and SLB research center manager; Kelly Gavin, MIT.nano consortium manager; Vladimir Bulović, MIT.nano director and the Fariborz Maseeh (1990) Professor of Emerging Technologies at MIT; and Smaine Zeroug, research director and SLB ambassador to MIT.

PodcastApril 24, 2025

Removing fossil fuels from industrial processes

MIT Energy Initiative

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Study: Climate change may make it harder to reduce smog in some regions

New landfill rules were supposed to cut methane. Michigan’s still falling...

Startup enables 100-year bridges with corrosion-resistant steel

A day in the life of MIT MBA student David Brown

A sustainable future is possible for Houston—local officials just have li...

SLB joins the MIT.nano Consortium

Removing fossil fuels from industrial processes

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