Energy savings in black and white
MIT students develop concept for color-changing roof tiles that absorb heat in winter, reflect it in summer.
How to limit risk of climate catastrophe
Comprehensive analysis of the odds of climate outcomes under different policy scenarios shows significant benefits from early actions.
Used frying oil to power MIT shuttles
Student biodiesel group cooks up its first batches of fuel made from recycled oil from campus dining facilities
Hidden waves pack a big punch
Thomas Peacock sheds light on an odd but powerful phenomenon of sea and sky
Concentrating emissions
Ahmed Ghoniem of mechanical engineering leads an MIT effort to make coal plants cleaner by using a pressurized combustion system to capture carbon dioxide.
Cement’s basic molecular structure finally decoded
Robustness comes from messiness, not a clean geometric
arrangement
Andrew Whittle to head Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
A geotechnical engineer who served on the
panel reviewing the hurricane protection systems in New Orleans
following Hurricane Katrina is the new head
of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering.
A hard rain's gonna fall
Climate change will yield more extreme rainfall, according to a new analysis.
Community garden taking bloom at MIT
MIT's community garden has taken bloom on the roof of the West Garage and along the side of the Albany Street garage. In the pilot program's inaugural year, 32 community members participated with approximately 55 plots.
Cutting CO2 emissions from existing coal plants
MIT Energy Initiative report details findings of symposium, identifies next steps
Taking the heat off
Biomimetic-engineering design can replace spaghetti tangle of nanotubes in thermal material