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MIT community members made headlines with key research advances and their efforts to tackle pressing challenges.

Images from geostationary satellites alone aren’t enough to help planes avoid contrail-prone regions, MIT researchers report.

At MIT, metallurgist Diran Apelian ScD ’73 urges engineers and researchers to rethink design, recycling, and the life cycle of modern materials.

New analysis provides the first national, bottom-up estimate of cement’s natural carbon dioxide uptake across buildings and infrastructure.

The consortium convenes industry, academia, and policy leaders to navigate competing demands and reimagine materials supply.

MIT researchers found a way to predict how efficiently materials can transport protons in clean energy devices and other advanced technologies.

Tools for forecasting and modeling technological improvements and the impacts of policy decisions can result in more effective and impactful decision-making.

Chemical engineers have found a simple way to make capturing carbon emissions from industrial plants more energy-efficient.

The project was designed and built with novel “bio-composite” materials developed by the student team.