This semester, MIT D-Lab students built prototype solutions to help farmers in Afghanistan, people living in informal s…

Long before she stepped into a lab, Ananda Santos Figueiredo was stargazing in Brazil, captivated by the cosmos and fee…

Long before she stepped into a lab, Ananda Santos Figueiredo was stargazing in Brazil, captivated by the cosmos and fee…

Batteries are nearing their limits in terms of how much power they can store for a given weight. That’s a serious obsta…

Separating crude oil into products such as gasoline, diesel, and heating oil is an energy-intensive process that accoun…

We’ve all felt the sting of guilt when fruit and vegetables go bad before we could eat them. Now, researchers from MIT …

Removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere efficiently is often seen as a crucial need for combatting climate change, …

Life is a little brighter in Kapiyo these days. For many in this rural Kenyan town, nightfall used to signal the end t…

Pavements form the backbone of our built environment. In the United States, almost  2.8 million lane-miles , or about 4…

The winner of this year’s MIT $100K Entrepreneurship Competition is helping advanced therapies reach more patients fast…

MIT faculty and researchers receive many external awards throughout the year. The MIT School of Engineering periodicall…

It’s been a scientific truth so universally acknowledged that it’s taught in classrooms and repeated in pop-science vid…

As the world struggles to reduce climate-warming carbon emissions, India has pledged to do its part, and its success is…