IDEAS Global Challenge rewards inventions with social impact
At annual event, 10 teams split $92,500 in prize money for designing innovations that improve lives worldwide.
Deriving a theory of defects
Mingda Li seeks to harness atomic irregularities in materials for improved energy applications.
Gauging the effects of water scarcity on an irrigated planet
Study projects likely impacts on food prices, bioenergy production, and deforestation.
3Q: John Heywood on the future of the internal combustion engine
Professor of mechanical engineering explains the importance of advancing internal combustion engines and offers his take on recent EPA rollbacks.
MIT Clean Energy Prize rewards student innovation
Robust batteries, solar refrigeration, UV membrane cleaner, and smart factory technologies take home $140,000 in prize money.
Fine-tuning fusion
Postdoc Theresa Wilks finds home on the west coast, helming an MIT collaboration with the DIII-D tokamak fusion reactor.
3Q: Juliana Mitkiewicz on sustainable development and empowering women in developing countries
Former MIT D-Lab visiting graduate student is helping local communities address environmental challenges, improve regional economies, and promote gender equality.
Carbon taxes could make significant dent in climate change, study finds
Several different carbon-pricing approaches would help reduce emissions, and some would be fair as well, researchers report.
Photonic communication comes to computer chips
Startup’s optoelectronic chips could reduce energy usage by up to 50 percent in data centers while increasing computing speeds.
With buildings and infrastructure, it pays to take a life-cycle perspective
Concrete Sustainability Hub research shows life-cycle thinking has long-term environmental and economic payoffs.
Engineers turn plastic insulator into heat conductor
Technique could prevent overheating of laptops, mobile phones, and other electronics.
3 Questions: Innovating for the clean energy economy
Daniel Kammen of the University of California at Berkeley discusses current efforts in clean energy innovation and implementation, and what's coming next.
A new way to find better battery materials
Design principles could point to better electrolytes for next-generation lithium batteries.
MIT hosts Saudi-U.S. innovation forum
Gathering focuses on spurring new directions for economic development.
Yuriy Roman: A chemical engineer pursuing renewable energy
MIT professor devises new ways to generate useful chemicals and fuels from renewable resources.