Pesticide innovation takes top prize at Collegiate Inventors Competition
Vishnu Jayaprakash SM '19, PhD '22 won for the AgZen-Cloak, an invention that makes pesticides stick to crops, minimizing pollution and water waste.
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Vishnu Jayaprakash SM '19, PhD '22 won for the AgZen-Cloak, an invention that makes pesticides stick to crops, minimizing pollution and water waste.
Relying on evaporation and radiation — but not electricity — the system could keep food fresh longer or supplement air conditioning in buildings.
The grant will enable pilot-scale water treatment systems to be built and tested using sustainable hydrogel microparticles.
The Jameel Index for Food Trade and Vulnerability — a project supported by Community Jameel — will study the implications of climate change on food security as they relate to trade.
The grants total over $1 million in support of research that addresses issues in the water and food sectors.
Researchers build a portable desalination unit that generates clear, clean drinking water without the need for filters or high-pressure pumps.
Students are driving innovative research to promote water and food security for all.
Study finds genome loops don’t last long in cells; theories of how loops control gene expression may need to be revised.
Mary Gehring is using her background in plant epigenetics to grow climate-resilient crops.
MIT chemical engineers create affordable, sustainable soap-based system to eliminate emerging micropollutants in water.
A delegation from MIT traveled to Glasgow for COP26, where international negotiators sought to keep global climate goals on track.
Announced at the UN Climate Change Conference, the initiative aims to make food systems more resilient and sustainable by better connecting research to practice.
Researchers argue the plant could provide multiple benefits for California, including desalinated water and clean hydrogen fuel.
This robotic arm fuses data from a camera and antenna to locate and retrieve items, even if they are buried under a pile.
MIT professors Dave Des Marais and Caroline Uhler combine plant biology and machine learning to identify genetic roots of plant responses to environmental stress.