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Lightmatter’s Passage chip interconnect takes advantage of light’s latency and bandwidth advantages to link processors in a manner similar to how fiber optic cables use light to send data over long distances. Sending informatio...
Startup accelerates progress toward light-speed computing

Lightmatter, founded by three MIT alumni, is using photonic technologies to reinvent how chips communicate and calculate.

Form Energy’s battery modules are grouped together in environmentally protected enclosures. Hundreds of these enclosures are grouped together in modular megawatt-scale power blocks. Depending on the system size, tens to hundreds o...
Power when the sun doesn’t shine

With batteries based on iron and air, Form Energy leverages MIT research to incorporate renewables into the grid.

Sydney Johnson, an MBA and PhD candidate and researcher in the MIT Energy Initiative, is building models that can calculate the cost and effectiveness of various strategies for cutting carbon dioxide emissions in steel productio...
Moving past the Iron Age

Graduate student Sydney Johnson looks at how to achieve greener steel.

A team of MIT researchers and several other institutions has revealed ways to optimize efficiency and better control degradation, by engineering the nanoscale structure of perovskite devices. Team members include Madeleine Laitz...
Study unlocks nanoscale secrets for designing next-generation solar cells

The work will help researchers tune surface properties of perovskites, a promising alternative and supplement to silicon, for more efficient photovoltaics.

Clear, enforceable standards may make the difference in how effective carbon trading systems are in reducing global emissions. Credit: iStock
Explained: Carbon credits

Can carbon trading systems reduce global emissions, or are they little more than greenwashing? Clear, enforceable standards may make the difference.

The 2023 Solver Class in New York City during the Solve Challenge Finals. These innovators will join us on MIT’s campus in May. Photo courtesy of MIT Solve.
MIT Solve announces 2024 Global Challenges and Indigenous Communities Fellowship

Over $1 million in prize funding available for tech-enabled solutions to the 2024 Global Challenges.

At Sustainability Connect, a look at how MIT is decarbonizing its campus

The yearly event featured updates from faculty and staff from across MIT as well as a panel on communicating climate in the media

A simple technique that uses negligible amounts of energy could boost the efficiency of some key reactions used in chemical processing by a factor of 100,000, MIT researchers report. Image: iStock, edited by MIT News
With just a little electricity, MIT researchers boost common catalytic reactions

Applying a small voltage to a catalyst can increase the rates of reactions used in petrochemical processing, pharmaceutical manufacture, and many other processes.

MIT senior Anushree Chaudhuri wants to make sure the transition to cleaner technologies is not only more sustainable, but also more just. Credit: Ian MacLellan
Anushree Chaudhuri: Involving local communities in renewable energy planning

As societies move to cleaner technologies, the MIT senior seeks to make the transition more sustainable and just.