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Financial impacts of ‘cap and trade’
Analysis shows that, contrary to some claims, proposed legislation to limit carbon emissions would not disadvantage those with lower incomes.
Media Lab Complex formally opens this week
MIT community is invited to a free open house on Friday, followed by a public conference with architect Fumihiko Maki the following day.
A silver lining to the Copenhagen cloud?
Though widely seen as a failure, December’s climate conference may actually have set the world on the right path, panelists suggest
A greener way to get electricity from natural gas
A proposed system would use solid-oxide fuel cells to produce power without sending CO2 into the atmosphere. But can it compete with conventional power plants?
One word: bioplastics
At a new plant in Iowa, MIT-rooted technology will use bacteria to turn corn into biodegradable plastics.
3 MIT faculty named HHMI Early Career Scientists
New program aims to give researchers flexibility in pursuing potentially transformative ideas
