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PostJanuary 8, 2026

Decoding the Arctic to predict winter weather

MIT Civil and Environmental Engineering

Judah Cohen’s model won first place for the fall season in the 2025 AI WeatherQuest subseasonal forecasting competition. The winning model combined machine-learning pattern recognition with the same Arctic diagnostics Cohen has refined over decades. The model detected a potential cold surge in mid-December for the U.S. East Coast weeks before such signals typically arise. The forecast was widely publicized in the media in real-time.

PostJanuary 8, 2026

Eighteen MIT faculty honored as “Committed to Caring” for 2025-27

The 2025-27 Committed to Caring honorees include: (top row, l-r) Iwnetim Abate, Abdullah Almaatouq, Marc Baldo, Anantha Chandrakasan, Anna-Christina Eilers, and Herbert Einstein; (second row, l-r)) Dennis Freeman, Daniel Hidalgo, Erin Kara, Laura Lewis, Lina Necib, and Sara Prescott; (third row, l-r) Ellen Roche, Loza Tadesse, Haruko Murakami Wainwright, Fan Wang, Forest White, and Bin Zhang.

PostJanuary 6, 2026

Positioning Massachusetts as a hub for climate tech and economic developmen...

MIT Energy Initiative

Emily Reichert, CEO of the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center, explained how her organization is coupling economic development and innovation for clean energy and climate tech.

PostJanuary 5, 2026

New research may help scientists predict when a humid heat wave will break

MIT scientists have identified a key atmospheric condition that determines how hot and humid midlatitude regions like the Midwest can become — and how intense related storms may be.

PostDecember 22, 2025

MIT in the media: 2025 in review

PostDecember 22, 2025

Study: More eyes on the skies will help planes reduce climate-warming contr...

“With more ‘eyes’ on the sky, we could start to see what a contrail’s life looks like,” says Prakash Prashanth.

PostDecember 18, 2025

Building reuse into the materials around us

Metallurgist Diran Apelian led the Department of Materials Science and Engineering’s Wulff Lecture on Nov. 19, urging researchers to engineer reuse and recycling into materials from the start.

PostDecember 17, 2025

Post-COP30, more aggressive policies needed to cap global warming at 1.5 C

PostDecember 16, 2025

Nuno Loureiro, professor and director of MIT’s Plasma Science and Fusion ...

Nuno Loureiro

PostDecember 16, 2025

How cement “breathes in” and stores millions of tons of CO₂ a year

MIT Concrete Sustainability Hub

New York City is built with millions of metric tons of concrete and other cement-based materials, which gradually absorb and store carbon dioxide from the air over the lifetimes of buildings and infrastructure.

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