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PostMarch 17, 2025

The Science of the City: A landfill full of food is a recipe for methane

Earthmoving equipment on a landfill site

PostMarch 11, 2025

Anthro-Engineering: Decarbonization at the Million-Person Scale

Elevated photo of city street and buildings.

PostJanuary 24, 2025

How cities are weathering the climate crisis

Lawrence Vale is the co-author of the new book, “The Equitably Resilient City,” published by MIT Press.

PostJanuary 23, 2025

What happens after Utah’s coal-fired power plants close?

a solar plant being installed in front of Huntington Power Plant in Emory County, Utah

PostJanuary 10, 2025

Q&A: Examining American attitudes on global climate policies

An MIT team recently published a study on public sentiment regarding climate policy. The co-authors are (left to right) Professor Evan Lieberman, Associate Professor Volha Charnysh, PhD student Jared Kalow, and Erin Walk PhD ’24. “Our research suggests that emphasizing a bit of blaming and shaming is more powerful than more diffuse messages of shared responsibility,” Lieberman explains.

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.

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).

PostNovember 22, 2024

A vision for U.S. science success

Arati Prabhakar is President Biden’s science advisor and the head of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.

PostNovember 22, 2024

Catherine Wolfram: High-energy scholar

“One of the things that pleasantly surprised me is how tight-knit and friendly the MIT faculty all are,” says Catherine Wolfram.

PostNovember 8, 2024

Startup turns mining waste into critical metals for the U.S.

"Being able to make your own materials domestically means that you're not at the behest of a foreign monopoly," says co-founder Tomás Villalón ’14, pictured.

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