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PostMarch 31, 2026

Climate change may produce “fast-food” phytoplankton

As sea surface temperatures rise over the next century, phytoplankton in polar regions will adapt to be less rich in proteins, heavier in carbohydrates, and lower in nutrients overall. “We’re moving in the poles toward a sort of fast-food ocean,” says MIT postdoc Shlomit Sharoni.

PostMarch 30, 2026

MIT researchers use AI to uncover atomic defects in materials

“There are many good defects, but if there are too many, performance can degrade. This opens up a new paradigm in defect science,” says Mingda Li.

PostMarch 27, 2026

MIT hackathon tackles real-world challenges in Ukraine

“The most important outcome is the community that emerged,” says Svetlana Boriskina, a principal research scientist at MIT and director of the Multifunctional Metamaterials Laboratory in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. “These teams built tools — but they also built relationships that will carry this work forward.”

PostMarch 25, 2026

Why solid-state batteries keep short-circuiting

Researchers used a new visual technique to measure stress in a material as a dendrite crack grows. Here, the four graphs have the same data with different color schemes. Brighter colors correspond to higher stress, and a bowtie-shaped pattern can be seen at the crack tip.

PostMarch 24, 2026

A complicated future for a methane-cleansing molecule

MIT researchers developed a model to study how some natural, methane-cleansing molecules known as the “atmosphere’s detergent” will shift in a changing climate.

PostMarch 23, 2026

Investigating Antarctic ice shelf melting with global navigation satellite ...

The calving front of the Ross Ice Sheet in western Antarctica

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