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MIT alumnus-founded FarmWise uses hulking, autonomous robots that resemble tractors to preserve crops while snipping weeds, eliminating the need for herbicides.
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MIT News Office

March 9, 2023

Titanic robots make farming more sustainable

MIT alumnus-founded FarmWise uses autonomous machines to snip weeds while preserving crops, eliminating the need for herbicides.

“Nuclear power is safe, sustainable, and reliable; now we need to be on time and on budget [to achieve] climate goals” says MIT doctoral student Assil Halimi.
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MIT News Office

March 8, 2023

Working to make nuclear energy more competitive

Through research on high burnup fuels and improving the design of nuclear power plants, NSE doctoral student Assil Halimi is adopting a dual approach to addressing some of the industry’s toughest challenges.

An MIT study finds that smoke particles in the stratosphere can trigger chemical reactions that erode the ozone layer — and that smoke particles from Australian wildfires widened the ozone hole by 10 percent in 2020. This map show...

MIT News Office

March 8, 2023

Study: Smoke particles from wildfires can erode the ozone layer

MIT chemists show the Australian wildfires widened the ozone hole by 10 percent in 2020.

The continued study of gibberellins could lead to further breakthroughs in agricultural science and have implications for food security.
Photo courtesy of SMART.

MIT News Office

March 7, 2023

Nanotube sensors are capable of detecting and distinguishing gibberellin plant hormones

Developed at SMART, the nondestructive nanosensors could have wide applications in agricultural science.

Antje Danielson is director of education at the MIT Energy Initiative.
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MIT News Office

March 6, 2023

3 Questions: Antje Danielson on energy education and its role in climate action

The MIT Energy Initiative’s director of education shares new initiatives aimed at preparing students to take an active role in solving the climate crisis.

Jason Jay’s work is to help companies break through the confusion and figure out what they want to actually do, not merely what sounds good.

MIT News Office

March 3, 2023

Creating the steps to make organizational sustainability work

MIT Sloan Sustainability Initiative Director Jason Jay helps organizations decide on and implement their sustainability goals.

Aviva Intveld is majoring in earth, atmospheric, and planetary sciences, and minoring in materials science and engineering.
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MIT News Office

March 3, 2023

Aviva Intveld named 2023 Gates Cambridge Scholar

The MIT senior will pursue graduate studies in earth sciences at Cambridge University.

This sequence shows an example of the iterative design process in action. On top, you can see the AI-designed initial version of a support beam. In the second and third images, a human operator highlights two support segments a...

MIT News Office

March 2, 2023

Integrating humans with AI in structural design

A process that seeks feedback from human specialists proves more effective at optimization than automated systems working alone.

The Science Surfaces exhibition features student-designed fashion inspired by MIT biomedical research images.
Photo courtesy of the Koch Institute.

MIT News Office

March 1, 2023

STEAM power on the runway

Boston teen designers create fashion inspired by award-winning images from MIT laboratories.