Much like Middle Eastern oil production in the 1970s, China today dominates the global refinement of critical metals th…

Evelyn Wang ’00 knows a few things about engineering solutions to hard problems. After all, she invented a way to pull …

More than half of the nation’s 623,218 bridges are experiencing significant deterioration. Through an in-field case stu…

MIT has again been named the world’s top university by the QS World University Rankings, which were announced today. Th…

Research has shown that large language models (LLMs) tend to overemphasize information at the beginning and end of a do…

MIT’s Environmental Solutions Initiative (ESI), a pioneering cross-disciplinary body that helped give a major boost to …

The long-term aspirational goal of the Paris Agreement on climate change is to cap global warming at 1.5 degrees Celsi…

Today, 2.2 billion people in the world lack access to safe drinking water. In the United States, more than 46 million p…

As the frequency and severity of extreme weather events grow, it may become increasingly necessary to employ a bolder a…

MIT has an unparalleled history of bringing together interdisciplinary teams to solve pressing problems — think of the …

MIT has an unparalleled history of bringing together interdisciplinary teams to solve pressing problems — think of the …

Fusion energy has the potential to enable the energy transition from fossil fuels, enhance domestic energy security, an…

The accumulation of microplastics in the environment, and within our bodies, is an increasingly worrisome issue. But pr…

Hydrogen has the potential to be a climate-friendly fuel since it doesn’t release carbon dioxide when used as an energy…

For weeks, the whiteboard in the lab was crowded with scribbles, diagrams, and chemical formulas. A research team acros…

This spring, 25 MIT students and a postdoc traveled to Washington, where they met with congressional offices to advocat…