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PostSeptember 28, 2021

Fortune

Fortune reporter Shawn Tully writes that a new study co-authored by MIT researchers that examines the amount of e-waste Bitcoin generates. The researchers found that: “In 2020, the Bitcoin network...

PostSeptember 23, 2021

Companies hoping to grow carbon-sucking kelp may be rushing ahead of the sc...

MIT Technology Review

PostSeptember 22, 2021

Professor Emeritus Ronald Probstein, world-renowned expert in fluid mechani...

MIT News

Professor Emeritus Ronald Probstein (1928-2021)

PostSeptember 22, 2021

Institute Professor Paula Hammond named to White House science council

MIT News

Professor Paula Hammond, the head of MIT’s Department of Chemical Engineering, will serve on the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology.

In the MediaSeptember 22, 2021

Boston Globe

President L. Rafael Reif and Linda Henry, CEO of Boston Globe Media Partners, took part in a wide-ranging fireside chat during the inaugural Globe Summit, touching upon everything from the urgent need...

PostSeptember 22, 2021

Study: Global cancer risk from burning organic matter comes from unregulate...

MIT News

Whenever organic matter is burned, such as in a wildfire, a power plant, a car’s exhaust, or in daily cooking, the combustion releases polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) — a class of pollutants that is known to cause lung cancer.

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Taylor Perron receives 2021 MacArthur Fellowship

Making roadway spending more sustainable

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Fortune

Companies hoping to grow carbon-sucking kelp may be rushing ahead of the sc...

Professor Emeritus Ronald Probstein, world-renowned expert in fluid mechani...

Institute Professor Paula Hammond named to White House science council

Boston Globe

Study: Global cancer risk from burning organic matter comes from unregulate...

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