Two teams led by MIT researchers were selected in December 2023 by the U.S. National Science…
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Shining a light on oil fields to make them more sustainable
Operating an oil field is complex and there is a staggeringly long list of things that…
Think globally, rebuild locally
Building construction accounts for a huge chunk of greenhouse gas emissions: About 36 percent of carbon…
Moving past the Iron Age
MIT graduate student Sydney Rose Johnson has never seen the steel mills in central India. She’s…
Q&A: A blueprint for sustainable innovation
Atacama Biomaterials is a startup combining architecture, machine learning, and chemical engineering to create eco-friendly materials…
Cobalt-free batteries could power cars of the future
Many electric vehicles are powered by batteries that contain cobalt — a metal that carries high…
AI meets climate: MIT Energy and Climate Hack 2023
The MIT Energy and Climate Hack brought together participants from myriad fields and disciplines to develop rapid,…
Merging science and systems thinking to make materials more sustainable
For Professor Elsa Olivetti, tackling a problem as large and complex as climate change requires not…
How to decarbonize the world, at scale
The world in recent years has largely been moving on from debates about the need to…
Cleaning up one of the world’s most commonly used substances
This past July, in the dusty basement of a building in Seattle, Washington, about 60 tons…