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The 2022 Solver Class in New York City during the Solve Challenge Finals. These innovators will join us on MIT’s campus in May.
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February 1, 2023

MIT Solve announces 2023 global challenges and Indigenous Communities Fellowship

More than $1 million in funding available to selected Solver teams and fellows.

Maria Risueño Dominguez SM '22 demonstrates the adaptability of her furniture system at the opening of the “The Next 150 Year Chair” exhibit.
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January 31, 2023

Blue-sky thinking and the next 150-year chair

MIT students studying advanced product design explored sustainable chair manufacturing and showed their work in a community exhibition space in Venice, California.

Electrification powered by low-carbon sources should be considered more broadly as a viable decarbonization pathway for the chemical industry, argue researchers.
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January 31, 2023

To decarbonize the chemical industry, electrify it

Researchers urge industry and the research community to explore electrification pathways to reduce chemical industry emissions.

Fadel Adib, associate professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and the Media Lab, seeks to develop wireless technology that can sense the physical world in ways that were not possible before.
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MIT News Office

January 24, 2023

Sensing with purpose

Fadel Adib uses wireless technologies to sense the world in new ways, taking aim at sweeping problems such as food insecurity, climate change, and access to health care.

MIT architecture professor Miho Mazereeuw’s work on disaster resilience focuses on plans, people, and policies, well as technology and design, to prepare for the future.
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MIT News Office

January 18, 2023

Preparing to be prepared

Miho Mazereeuw, an architect of built and natural environments, looks for new ways to get people ready for natural disasters.

MIT researchers determined that 1 billion autonomous vehicles, each driving for one hour per day with a computer consuming 840 watts, would consume enough energy to generate about the same amount of emissions as data centers currentl...

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January 13, 2023

Computers that power self-driving cars could be a huge driver of global carbon emissions

Study shows that if autonomous vehicles are widely adopted, hardware efficiency will need to advance rapidly to keep computing-related emissions in check.

A new study by MIT researchers quantifies the extent to which outdoor activity in China decreases on days with hot temperatures.
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January 12, 2023

Study: Extreme heat is changing habits of daily life

New research quantifies how much very hot temperatures restrict outdoor activity in China.

Aviva Intveld is an MIT senior majoring in earth, atmospheric, and planetary sciences, whose research focuses on reconstructing the paleoclimate and paleoecology of northeastern Mexico.
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MIT News Office

January 11, 2023

Looking to the past to prepare for an uncertain future

Using sand and rock, MIT senior Aviva Intveld tells stories of ancient climates.

One of the most effective ways to control greenhouse gas emissions, many analysts argue, is to prolong the lifetimes of existing nuclear power plants. But doing so requires monitoring the condition of many of their critical component...

MIT News Office

January 10, 2023

A new way to assess radiation damage in reactors

Engineers designed a tool that enables faster measurements of the condition of some nuclear reactor components, potentially extending their lifetimes.