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PostFebruary 7, 2025

Cleaning up critical minerals and materials production, using microwave pla...

6K’s microwave plasma technology, called UniMelt, uses beams of tightly controlled thermal plasma to melt or vaporize precursor materials into particles with precise sizes and crystalline phases. Pictured is a photo from 6K’s factory showing some of its large plasma equipment.

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 13, 2025

Study shows how households can cut energy costs

Giving people better data about their energy use, plus some coaching, can help them substantially reduce their consumption and costs, according to a study by MIT researchers in Amsterdam.

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.

PostJanuary 7, 2025

How hard is it to prevent recurring blackouts in Puerto Rico?

Hurricane Maria ravaged this neighborhood in Vega Alta, Puerto Rico.

PostJanuary 6, 2025

MIT welcomes spring 2025 Environmental Solutions Journalism Fellows

PostJanuary 3, 2025

At MIT, Clare Grey stresses battery development to electrify the planet

Dame Clare Grey, Royal Society research professor and the Geoffrey Moorhouse-Gibson Professor of Chemistry at Cambridge University, delivered the 2024 Mildred S. Dresselhaus Lecturer on Nov. 18.

PostDecember 25, 2024

How Utah’s Christmas Festival has buoyed a changing coal community

Residents and visitors watch as the city float drives by in the annual light parade in Helper, Utah.

PostDecember 23, 2024

Utah’s coal mines can’t find enough workers

Dillion Grimmett, a coal miner who works at Gentry, sits in the mine’s main office entryway.

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