Staring into the vortex
MIT researchers describe factors governing how oceans and atmospheres move heat around on Earth and other planetary bodies.
MIT researchers describe factors governing how oceans and atmospheres move heat around on Earth and other planetary bodies.
The average power of waves hitting a coastline can predict how fast that coast will erode.
Scientists reveal the genes and proteins controlling the chemical structures underpinning paleoclimate proxies.
Maike Sonnewald adapts a method that identifies areas of the global ocean with similar physics, revealing global dynamical regimes.
Institute Professor honored for discovering Prochlorococcus, the most abundant photosynthesizing organism on Earth.
Visiting Assistant Professor Maryam Rashed Alshehhi models a region with freshwater shortages, oil spills, and frequent dust storms.
Scientists and engineers will collaborate in a new Climate Modeling Alliance to advance climate modeling and prediction.
Carl Wunsch continues to expand his foundational framework for understanding the behavior of worldwide oceans as a whole.
Long-term melting may lead to release of huge volumes of cold, fresh water into the North Atlantic, impacting global climate.
Model of nutrient recycling may explain longstanding mystery.
In a novel system developed by MIT researchers, underwater sonar signals cause vibrations that can be decoded by an airborne receiver.
Ryan Eustice PhD '05 and his team at the Toyota Research Institute are using artificial intelligence technologies to develop a car incapable of causing accidents.
Interactions among microorganisms account for nitrite accumulation just below the sunlit zone, with implications for oceanic carbon and nitrogen cycling.
MIT anthropologist is researching how scientists understand waves.
The unusual characteristics of these abundant, bacteria-killing viruses could lead to evolutionary insights.