When it comes to water use, most of us think of the water we drink. But industrial uses for things like manufacturing a…
Last year the Earth exceeded 1.5 degrees Celsius of warming above preindustrial times, a threshold beyond which wildfi…
In 2014, a team of MIT students in course 15.366 (Climate and Energy Ventures) developed a plan to commercialize MIT re…
When Youyeon Choi was in high school, she discovered she really liked “thinking in geometry.” The shapes, the dimension…
Buildings cost a lot these days. But when concrete buildings are being constructed, there’s another material that can m…
Materials like car tires, human tissues, and spider webs are diverse in composition, but all contain networks of interc…
Artificial intelligence has become vital in business and financial dealings, medical care, technology development, rese…
Ammonia is the most widely produced chemical in the world today, used primarily as a source for nitrogen fertilizer. It…
In a two-part series, MIT News explores the environmental implications of generative AI. In this article, we look at w…
Three MIT students — Yutao Gong, Brandon Man, and Andrii Zahorodnii — have been awarded 2025 Schwarzman Scholarships an…
