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PostOctober 3, 2025

Secretary of Energy Chris Wright ’85 visits MIT

U.S. Secretary of Energy Chris Wright ’85 visited the MIT campus on Sept. 29. Wright earned a BS in mechanical engineering and spent two and a half years pursuing graduate studies in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science before leaving to become an entrepreneur in the energy industry.

PostOctober 2, 2025

Lincoln Lab unveils the most powerful AI supercomputer at any US university...

MIT Lincoln Laboratory

System Engineer Antonio Rosa inspects equipment in the Lincoln Laboratory Supercomputing Center .

PostOctober 2, 2025

A simple formula could guide the design of faster-charging, longer-lasting ...

An artist's depiction of lithium ions moving from an electrolyte solution to a cobalt-oxide electrode, with color-coded spheres representing the different chemical constituents.

PostOctober 1, 2025

Concrete “battery” developed at MIT now packs 10 times the power

An electron-conducting carbon concrete (ec³)-based arch structure integrates supercapacitor electrodes for dual functionality. The prototype demonstrates both structural load bearing and the ability to power an LED, with the light’s intensity varying under applied load, highlighting the potential for real-time structural health monitoring via the supercapacitor.

PostOctober 1, 2025

Palladium filters could enable cheaper, more efficient generation of hydrog...

Palladium plug membrane at the end of the membrane fabrication process (left). Dashed green lines outline the membrane. Scanning electron microscopy image of the membrane shows the palladium plugs embedded inside the pores of the silica support (right).

PostSeptember 30, 2025

Responding to the climate impact of generative AI

“We are on a path where the effects of climate change won’t be fully known until it is too late to do anything about it,” says Jennifer Turliuk MBA ’25, who is working to help policymakers, scientists, and enterprises consider the multifaceted costs and benefits of generative AI. “This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to innovate and make AI systems less carbon-intense.”

PostSeptember 25, 2025

From Tank to Odometer: Winners and Losers from a Gas-to-VMT Tax Shift

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heavy traffic on a US expressway

PostSeptember 25, 2025

AI system learns from many types of scientific information and runs experim...

The CRESt user interface allows researchers to chat with the platform and tell it to deliver promising material recipes, start sample preparation, or perform image analysis on SEM images.

PostSeptember 23, 2025

MIT’s work with Idaho National Laboratory advances America’s nuclear in...

Collaboration between researchers at MIT and the Idaho National Laboratory has led to new fuels, next-generation reactor designs, and progress toward the first reactor in space.

PostSeptember 22, 2025

Power-outage exercises strengthen the resilience of US bases

MIT Lincoln Laboratory

Lincoln Laboratory researchers Jean Sack (left) and Christopher Lashway have conducted dozens of Energy Resilience Readiness Exercises at military installations across the nation and abroad.

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