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Postdoc Michele Bustamante wins Congressional Fellowship for her research analyzing supply risks and cost dynamics for key metals in high technology.
Postdoc Michele Bustamante wins Congressional Fellowship for her research analyzing supply risks and cost dynamics for key metals in high technology.
Analysis points the way to energy-efficient systems that take a location-specific approach to cooling and dehumidifying places where people live and work.
Water-starved areas could find new sources by desalinating water that’s much less salty than seawater.
MIT-developed process could offer nontoxic alternative to environmentally harmful chemicals.
Study highlights economic losses for participating countries.
Following the Paris accord could reduce risk of severe water-access problems, researchers find.
Study finds reduction in sulfur emissions from power plants.
Gasoline-alcohol engines for heavy-duty trucks could produce a meaningful improvement in global air quality.
Professor emeritus and former U.S. energy secretary reflects on recent meeting with Pope Francis and energy and finance leaders.
Technology captures water evaporating from cooling towers; prototype to be installed on MIT’s Central Utility Plant.
Tata Center for Technology and Design program "aims to close the gap between ideas and implementation," says program director Jason Prapas.
The open innovation program convenes Solve at MIT, three days of workshops, lectures, and discussions to advance global solutions.
Graduate student Tiziana Smith studies links between water availability and crop yields in the world’s most populous country.
MIT senior research scientist is one of six U.S. scientists to join French President Emmanuel Macron's "Make Our Planet Great Again" program.
Eleven principal investigators from six MIT departments will receive grants totaling over $1.3 million, overhead free, for research on food and water challenges.