Explained: Radiative forcing
When there’s more energy radiating down on the planet than there is radiating back out to space, something’s going to have to heat up
Action needed to save climate, create jobs
MIT Energy Conference speakers see need to boost clean-energy businesses through a price on carbon and incentives for manufacturing
Communications Forum on The Culture Beat and New Media
Featuring Bill Marx, Douglas McLennan, moderated by David Thorburn
A silver lining to the Copenhagen cloud?
Though widely seen as a failure, December’s climate conference may actually have set the world on the right path, panelists suggest
Carl Kaysen, MIT professor emeritus and national security expert, dies at age 89
As an adviser under President Kennedy, he helped negotiate a key nuclear test ban treaty.
3 Questions: David Mindell on Obama’s NASA proposal
MIT space researcher predicts that if adopted, Obama’s proposed budget and policy will lead to more joint human-robotic space exploration
Peering inside an artificial sun
Techniques developed by MIT center provide detailed images from the inside of hellishly hot core of advanced fusion experiments
Figuring out where to put the carbon
If we plan to keep using fossil fuels, we need to figure out how to sequester the resulting carbon dioxide. New tools from MIT could help evaluate where to do it — and how to keep it contained.
Researching and writing a thesis (and a blog) in Tanzania
Mechanical Engineering major, Tish Scolnik ’09, is spending this January developing her thesis focused on appropriate technology for the developing world.
The Tough Get Growing: how to succeed in a down economy
Presented by the MIT Enterprise Forum
Moderated by Bo Fishback
Panelists:
Eugene Fitzgerald '85
Daphne Zohar
Helen Greiner '89, SM '90
Not easy being green
MIT historian Harriet Ritvo explains how a battle to save an English lake helped found modern environmentalism — but might worry greens today
Reporter’s Notebook: Where do we go from here?
At MIT forum, former Lockheed Martin CEO Norman Augustine and other aerospace experts discuss the future of human spaceflight.
Reporter’s Notebook: Jules Verne, desperado?
MIT historian of science Rosalind Williams on the overlooked legacy of Jules Verne, anti-globalization visionary