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PostApril 21, 2022

Four new videos highlight the impact of the MIT Joint Program on the Scienc...

MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change
In conjunction with Earth Day 2022, the MIT Joint Program is releasing four videos that showcase its mission to advance a sustainable, prosperous world. (Source: MIT Video Productions)
PostApril 21, 2022

Given what we know, how do we live now?

MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences
Circular ripples in a pond
PostApril 20, 2022

Amy Moran-Thomas receives the Edgerton Faculty Achievement Award

MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences
The Edgerton Award Selection Committee writes that anthropologist Moran-Thomas “stands out in [her] field by bringing a humanistic approach into dialogue with environmental and science studies to investigate how bodily health is shaped by social well-being at the community level and further conditioned by localized planetary imbalances."
PostApril 15, 2022

Looking forward to forecast the risks of a changing climate

MIT News
The three leads on the Climate Grand Challenges flagship proposal "Preparing for a new world of weather and climate extremes" are (left to right) Kerry Emanuel, Miho Mazereeuw, and Paul O'Gorman.
PostApril 13, 2022

A new heat engine with no moving parts is as efficient as a steam turbine

MIT News
A thermophotovoltaic (TPV) cell (size 1 cm x 1 cm) mounted on a heat sink designed to measure the TPV cell efficiency. To measure the efficiency, the cell is exposed to an emitter and simultaneous measurements of electric power and heat flow through the device are taken.
PostApril 8, 2022

New England renewables + Canadian hydropower

MIT Energy Initiative
 “Hydropower is a more-than-hundred-year-old technology, and plants are already built up north,” says Emil Dimanchev SM ’18. “We might not need to build something new. We might just need to use those plants differently or to a greater extent.”
PostMarch 8, 2022

Toward batteries that pack twice as much energy per pound

MIT News
These discs were used for testing the researchers’ processing method for solid-electrolyte batteries. On the left, a sample of the solid electrolyte itself, a material known as LLPO. At center, the same material coated with the cathode material used in their tests. At right, the LLPO material with a coating of gold, used to facilitate measuring its electrical properties.
PostMarch 4, 2022

Q&A: Climate Grand Challenges finalists on building equity and fairness int...

MIT News
Faculty from teams in the “Building equity and fairness into climate solutions” category share their thoughts on the need for inclusive solutions that prioritize disadvantaged, minority, and indigenous populations.
PostFebruary 28, 2022

Study reveals chemical link between wildfire smoke and ozone depletion

MIT News
Smoke from bushfires blankets the southeast coastline of Australia during the wildfires in 2020.
PostFebruary 14, 2022

First-ever Climate Grand Challenges recognizes 27 finalists

MIT News
The Climate Grand Challenges competition launched in July 2020 with the goal of mobilizing the entire MIT research community around transformative projects that have the potential to make major advances in solving the big problems that stand in the way of effective global climate response.

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