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Schematic shows Odyssey IV, a small, inexpensive, MIT-designed robotic submarine that can hover in place like a helicopter.

MIT's new underwater robot can hover in place

Odyssey IV could be a boon for oil explorers, archaeologists and more

September 25, 2008

MIT senior Christopher Love and colleagues are working to find out whether energy from trees can be used to prevent forest fires. Love works here with a test tree behind the copper-plated insulated door of MIT's Faraday cage.

Preventing forest fires with tree power

Sensor system runs on electricity generated by trees

September 23, 2008

$25K X-Prize offered for best 'green idea' video

September 16, 2008

From left, Travis Franck, John Reilly, Valerie Karplus and Noelle Selin, all of the Center for Global Change Science at MIT, pose with their bicycles on Memorial Drive. The four will be part of an MIT group partaking in a ride for climate change awareness from New York City to Washington, D.C.

Weather cycles: Group gears up for climate change awareness ride

September 8, 2008

MIT tests self-propelled cage for fish farming

September 2, 2008

An MIT project aimed at monitoring owls in their natural environment is growing into an international collaboration on how to use widespread networks of citizen-scientists to gain new insights into a wide variety of species.

Call of the wild

MIT project aims to understand owls and other wildlife

August 22, 2008

Understanding climate change complacency

Sloan's Sterman sees flawed reasoning at root of problem

August 20, 2008

MIT honored for green initiatives

Named one of Kaplan's top 25 environmentally friendly schools

August 6, 2008

The Federal Creosote Superfund site in New Jersey during 2002 cleanup efforts.

Superfund may not be so super

Cleanups don't seem to be worth the cost, according to MIT study

August 5, 2008

MIT graduate students are working on a thermoelectric system that could make MIT's cogeneration plant even more efficient.

MIT students seek to harness waste heat

Device could make MIT's cogeneration plant even more efficient

July 24, 2008

MIT graduate student Tijs Van Maasakkers, right, examines one of the water lines near Durban, South Africa.

MIT students help cities plan for changing climate

South Africa trip prompts work on online tool with global application

July 22, 2008

MIT expert: Don't count on long-term success in climate policy

Says policy-making requires ambitious short-term goals

July 11, 2008

Flexible design in airports essential for courting low-cost airlines

June 18, 2008

Matt Ritter, Doug Wood, Spencer Ahrens and Micah Sze mount one of the 10-inch by 12-foot mirror panels in place.

MIT prototype solar dish passes first tests

Low-cost system could revolutionize global energy production

June 18, 2008

Diagram shows the structure of a histidine kinase (blue ribbons) and its target response regulator (green ribbons). The specificity of the interaction between the two proteins is primarily determined by the orange and red amino acid residues.

MIT researchers unravel bacteria communication pathways

June 12, 2008

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