Operating an oil field is complex and there is a staggeringly long list of things that…
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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…
Jackson Jewett wants to design buildings that use less concrete
After three years leading biking tours through U.S. National Parks, Jackson Jewett decided it was time…
Technologies for water conservation and treatment move closer to commercialization
The Abdul Latif Jameel Water and Food Systems Lab (J-WAFS) provides Solutions Grants to help MIT…
Harnessing synthetic biology to make sustainable alternatives to petroleum products
Reducing our reliance on fossil fuels is going to require a transformation in the way we…
A clean alternative to one of the world’s most common ingredients
Never underestimate the power of a time crunch. In 2016, MIT classmates David Heller ’18, Shara…
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…
Using soap to remove micropollutants from water
Imagine millions of soapy sponges the size of human cells that can clean water by soaking…
Q&A: More-sustainable concrete with machine learning
As a building material, concrete withstands the test of time. Its use dates back to early…