Making hydropower plants more sustainable

Growing up on a farm in Texas, there was always something for siblings Gia Schneider ’99…

Making hydrogen power a reality

For decades, government and industry have looked to hydrogen as a potentially game-changing tool in the…

Donald Sadoway wins European Inventor Award for liquid metal batteries

MIT Professor Donald Sadoway has won the 2022 European Inventor Award, in the category for Non-European…

The race is on for the world’s first electric air taxi

An Indian startup has joined the race to fly the world’s first electric air taxi. In…

MIT J-WAFS announces 2022 seed grant recipients

The Abdul Latif Jameel Water and Food Systems Lab (J-WAFS) at MIT has awarded eight MIT…

Energy storage important to creating affordable, reliable, deeply decarbonized electricity systems

In deeply decarbonized energy systems utilizing high penetrations of variable renewable energy (VRE), energy storage is…

Solar-powered desalination device wins MIT $100K competition

The winner of this year’s MIT $100K Entrepreneurship Competition is commercializing a new water desalination technology.…

MIT Climate “Plug-In” highlights first year of progress on MIT’s climate plan

In a combined in-person and virtual event on Monday, members of the three working groups established…

MIT expands research collaboration with Commonwealth Fusion Systems to build net energy fusion machine, SPARC

MIT’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center (PSFC) will substantially expand its fusion energy research and education…

Given what we know, how do we live now?

To truly engage the climate crisis, as so many at MIT are doing, can be daunting…