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Global Engineering and Research (GEAR) Center founder Lisa Yang (left) sits with GEAR Center director Amos Winter, MIT associate professor of mechanical engineering.
Photo: Todd Zimmermann

MIT News Office

January 17, 2024

K. Lisa Yang Global Engineering and Research Center will prioritize innovations for resource-constrained communities

Collaborative hub founded by philanthropist Lisa Yang will catalyze academic innovation and result in real-world, global impact.

For the first time, MIT chemists have mapped out in detail how proton-coupled electron transfers happen at the surface of an electrode. Their results could help researchers to design more efficient fuel cells, batteries, or othe...

MIT News Office

January 16, 2024

Study reveals a reaction at the heart of many renewable energy technologies

New insights into how proton-coupled electron transfers occur at an electrode could help researchers design more efficient fuel cells and electrolyzers.

Aditya Mehrotra performs a “shakedown” test — running the hydrogen-powered electric motorcycle at high speeds to ensure that the mechanical and electrical systems hold up.
Photo: Adam Glanzman

MIT News Office

January 10, 2024

The future of motorcycles could be hydrogen

MIT Electric Vehicle Team builds a unique hydrogen fuel cell–powered electric motorcycle.

Animation showing the change in orbital population with no future launches, starting in 2023. Red dots represent debris, green shows payload, cyan shows derelict, and white shows rocket bodies. The animation shows a 200-yea...

MIT News Office

January 10, 2024

Researchers release open-source space debris model

The MIT Orbital Capacity Assessment Tool lets users model the long-term future space environment.

Left to right: Vladimir Bulović, MIT.nano director and the Fariborz Maseeh (1990) Professor of Emerging Technologies; Rolf van Benthem, Shell chief scientist for materials science - polymers; Alexander van der Made, Shell chie...

MIT News Office

January 9, 2024

Shell joins MIT.nano Consortium

International energy company becomes sustaining member of industry group.

Hydrogels developed at MIT can be used to remove micropollutants from water.
Photo: Sebastian Gonzalez Quintero/MassArt

MIT News Office

January 9, 2024

A new way to swiftly eliminate micropollutants from water

MIT chemical engineers create a zwitterionic hydrogel system for single-step water treatment with minimal environmental footprint.

Five projects were selected for WORLDING 2023, each exploring an emergent field within climate futures through interdisciplinary teams made up of storytellers, land use planners, and creative technologists who use speculative modelin...

MIT News Office

January 8, 2024

Co-creating climate futures with real-time data and spatial storytelling

Five multimedia projects communicating climate futures selected for 2023 WORLDING program, online and at MIT.

Hsu’s projects frequently yield practical and concrete steps for climate action.
Photo: Cody O’Loughlin

MIT News Office

January 2, 2024

Climate action, here and now

Associate Professor David Hsu examines how people and cities can fight climate change locally — and how MIT can do the same.

MIT faculty, researchers, students, and staff made headlines in 2023, making key research advances including detecting a dying star swallowing a planet, exploring the frontiers of AI, creating new clean energy solutions, inventin...

MIT News Office

December 21, 2023

MIT in the media: 2023 in review

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