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The researchers found that traditional long-term strategies, which employ rigid schedules for future road treatments, may overestimate total life-cycle costs.Image: Nextvoyage/Pexels

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April 8, 2019

Paving ahead: Model aims for infrastructure preservation

MIT Concrete Sustainability Hub researchers outline a new pavement maintenance model that accounts for future uncertainties in cost and deterioration.

MIT researchers have developed a new polymer membrane that can dramatically improve the efficiency of natural gas purification, while reducing its environmental impact.Image: Chelsea Turner, MIT

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April 8, 2019

Greener, more efficient natural gas filtration

Novel membrane material removes more impurities, without the need for toxic solvents.

A $30 million award from USAID will support MIT over the next five years in developing a Center of Excellence in Energy at Ain Shams University, Mansoura University, and Aswan University, in Egypt. The center will serve to connect researchers at th...

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March 27, 2019

MIT receives $30 million to help address energy challenges in Egypt

Award from USAID will support research collaborations through new Center of Excellence in Energy at Ain Shams University in Cairo.

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March 25, 2019

Fine-tuning multiphysics problems

Nuclear science and engineering graduate student Miriam Kreher codes to create better models for complex interactions within nuclear reactors.

A representation of the global ocean clustered by similar characteristics.Image: Maike Sonnewald

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March 20, 2019

Machine learning identifies links between world’s oceans

Maike Sonnewald adapts a method that identifies areas of the global ocean with similar physics, revealing global dynamical regimes.

In Indonesia, ancient tectonic activity has exposed rocks to tropical conditions, causing them to naturally absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.

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March 14, 2019

Tectonics in the tropics trigger Earth’s ice ages, study finds

Major tectonic collisions near the equator have caused three ice ages in the last 540 million years.

The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering's Research Speed Dating event included a panel discussion with CEE professors on the future of research in infrastructure and environment.Photo: Justin Knight

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March 12, 2019

CEE event showcases multidisciplinary opportunities

Ninth annual Research Speed Dating event fosters intradepartmental collaboration and facilitates discussion of future efforts to solve global issues.

Participants in a Martha's Vineyard net-zero carbon design thinking workshop included MIT Energy Initiative staff; representatives from Martha's Vineyard, Shell, and Viessmann; and students from MIT, Harvard University, and Tufts University.Phot...

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March 8, 2019

Students helping to make islands carbon neutral

MIT Energy Initiative program is using design thinking to solve energy issues on Martha’s Vineyard and beyond.

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February 28, 2019

Reading the heartbeat of the road

The Carbin app, from a Concrete Sustainability Hub researcher, promises users an unprecedented understanding of pavement quality.