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PostFebruary 6, 2025

Seeking climate connections among the oceans’ smallest organisms

By combining measurements that he takes in the ocean with experiments in his MIT lab, Andrew Babbin is working to understand the connections between microbes and nitrogen in the ocean.

PostJanuary 3, 2025

An abundant phytoplankton feeds a global network of marine microbes

Prochlorococcus tend to shed their molecular baggage at night. For a microbe called SAR11, the researchers found that the nighttime snack acts as a relaxant of sorts.

PostDecember 18, 2024

Surface-based sonar system could rapidly map the ocean floor at high resolu...

MIT Lincoln Laboratory

Left to right: Stephen Murray, Jason Valenzano, David Kindler, Paul Ryu, and Andrew March deploy their 8 m × 8 m sonar array test bed, held together by a metal frame, in Boston Harbor for sea tests.

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 14, 2024

Dancing with currents and waves in the Maldives

Underwater structures created by MIT’s Self-Assembly Lab and Invena, an organization based out of the Maldives.

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.

PostNovember 1, 2024

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

PostOctober 23, 2024

Study: Marshes provide cost-effective coastal protection

Graduate student Ernie I. H. Lee uses drone imaging and machine learning to help map salt marsh species, plant height, and shoots per bed area.

PostOctober 8, 2024

Utah has the last conventional uranium mill in the country. What does it do...

Utah has the last conventional uranium mill in the country. What does it do?

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