Out of sight and out of mind, sewage can actually tell us a lot about health
PhD student Mariana Matus studies human waste to understand individual and community health.
PhD student Mariana Matus studies human waste to understand individual and community health.
New research indicates marine plankton are not only more diverse than previously thought, but also profoundly affected by their environment.
New research from MIT and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution reveals a hidden deep-ocean carbon cycle.
Partnership with MGH, other institutions to foster regional ecosystem for rapidly evolving field.
Two new technologies could enable novel strategies for combating drug-resistant bacteria.
With an infusion of funds from the Simons Foundation, a collaboration between MIT researchers and colleagues will break new ground in the study of marine microbes.
Close analysis of bacteria in the human digestive tract reveals links to diet and other lifestyle factors.
MIT study finds ocean bacteria follow predictable patterns of daily activity.
MIT finding could one day lead to new approaches for manufacturing biofuels.
Program encourages new approaches to grand challenges in energy, environment, and sustainable materials and cities.
Novel system devised by MIT spinout Cambrian Innovation uses microbes to treat, extract power from wastewater.
One species, a few drops of seawater, hundreds of coexisting subpopulations.
Methane-producing microbes may be responsible for the largest mass extinction in Earth’s history.
In surprising new discovery, scientists show that microbes are more likely to adhere to tube walls when water is moving.