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Researchers discovered that thin layers of phytoplankton form where strong variations in flow velocity cause the cells to overturn. These flow conditions form a watery trap: phytoplankton can swim in but not out.

Stuck in the middle

MIT research explains how thin layers of tiny organisms form at sea; work could help predict harmful algal blooms like red tide

February 19, 2009

The figures show melanin production by Escherichia coli expressing a heterologous tyrosinase enzyme.Â Figure A is production with supplementation of the substrate (tyrosine) and Figure B is with endogenous production of the substrate (tyrosine) by 5 different engineered strains.

Enlisting microbes to solve global problems

Researchers harness bacteria to produce energy, clean up environment

February 17, 2009

Who's the best recycler of all?

January 30, 2009

Surviving without growing

Jay Forrester, the father of system dynamics, talks about sustainability and organizational decision making

January 30, 2009

A better way to pinpoint underground oil reserves

CEE mapping technology could make extraction more efficient

January 16, 2009

Executive vice-president and treasurer, and co-chair of the Campus Energy Task Force Theresa Stone spoke at the "Come Walk the Talk...on Energy" marking the beginning of energy week to launch Greening MIT, a community campaign for responsible use of energy and natural resources on campus.

Going green saves MIT green

January 13, 2009

Patrick J. McGovern Professor of Information Systems in the School of Management and Director of CCI Thomas W. Malone.

Putting heads (and computers) together to solve global problems

MIT's Center for Collective Intelligence (CCI) looks to take advantage of strength in numbers

January 13, 2009

MIT civil and environmental engineering student Mustafa Dafalla '09 gathers water samples at a pond in Niger to check for malaria larvae.

How to fight malaria by changing the environment

Leveling land can help control disease's spread, computer modeling finds

December 19, 2008

Water supplies could be strongly affected by climate change

Changes in rainfall can be amplified, up or down, in changes to aquifers

December 18, 2008

MITEI, Total announce energy research collaboration

December 18, 2008

Schematic of an oscillating water column. Waves enter through a subsurface opening into the chamber with air trapped above. The wave action causes the captured water column to move up and down, pushing the trapped air into an electricity-generating turbine. The turbine turns continuously, despite the changing direction of the air stream as the waves come in and out.

Catch the wave

Researchers eye clean energy possibilities along Portuguese coast

December 17, 2008

Roman Stocker holds the small microbial ecosystem he developed.

A plankton-eat-plankton world

Tiny ecosystem may shed light on key ocean microbes and their role in influencing climate

December 15, 2008

Saturation maps from a numerical simulation of the proposed model show that the flow dynamics and the distinctive saturation overshoot at the tip of the fingers agree with experimental observations.

Researchers finger the cause of 'gravity fingers'

December 12, 2008

Ayr Muir '00, SM '01 at his food truck, the Clover Food Lab, which is the newest addition to MIT's food truck population on Carleton Street. The Clover Food Lab is an all-vegetarian, eco-friendly mobile eatery.

Alumnus returns to open eco-friendly truck

December 8, 2008

MIT Sloan students are finalists in X-Prize video contest

Online votes will determine winner in ideas for new 'green' prize

November 20, 2008

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