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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…
Zero-trust architecture may hold the answer to cybersecurity insider threats
For years, organizations have taken a defensive “castle-and-moat” approach to cybersecurity, seeking to secure the perimeters…
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…
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…
Study: Immigrants in the U.S. are more likely to start firms, create jobs
Immigrants to the U.S. are more likely to start businesses than native-born Americans are, according to…
From seawater to drinking water, with the push of a button
MIT researchers have developed a portable desalination unit, weighing less than 10 kilograms, that can remove…
“Spring-loaded” system pops phosphorus into molecular rings
MIT chemists have devised a new chemical reaction that allows them to synthesize a phosphorus-containing ring,…
Engineers enlist AI to help scale up advanced solar cell manufacturing
Perovskites are a family of materials that are currently the leading contender to potentially replace today’s…
Engineered bacteria could help protect “good” gut microbes from antibiotics
Antibiotics are life-saving drugs, but they can also harm the beneficial microbes that live in the…