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“Photography was a door into science journalism,” Graduate Program in Science Writing student Sophie Hartley notes. “It lets you capture the raw beauty of a moment and return to it later.”

MIT News Office

August 20, 2024

Creating connection with science communication

Sophie Hartley wants to help people learn about the importance of natural resources and land management through science writing.

Based on theoretical and experimental studies, MIT engineers have shown that adding nanoparticles of certain ceramics to the metal walls of the vessel containing the reacting plasma inside a nuclear fusion reactor can protect the metal from damage, significantly extending its lifetime. Professor Ju Li (right) and postdoc So Yeon Kim (left) examine samples of the composite they have fabricated for their demonstrations.

MIT News Office

August 19, 2024

More durable metals for fusion power reactors

MIT researchers have found a way to make structural materials last longer under the harsh conditions inside a fusion reactor.

“Cement enabled civilization as we know it today, but now it needs to be reinvented,” says Sublime Systems co-founder Yet-Ming Chiang.

MIT News Office

August 9, 2024

With sustainable cement, startup aims to eliminate gigatons of CO₂

Sublime Systems, founded by Professor Yet-Ming Chiang and former postdoc Leah Ellis, has developed a sustainable way to make one of the world’s most common materials.

Despite their importance and impact, there are often scarce data for evaluating the environmental impact of roads across their whole life cycle, from producing raw materials through demolition. The MIT Concrete Sustainability Hub’s streamlined framework reduces the overall data collection burden by up to 85 percent.

MIT News Office

August 9, 2024

New tool empowers pavement life-cycle decision-making while reducing data collection burden

MIT Concrete Sustainability Hub research presents a streamlined pavement life-cycle assessment tool to enable a large set of stakeholders to conduct environmental analysis of pavements.

MIT News Office

August 9, 2024

With sustainable cement, startup aims to eliminate gigatons of CO₂

Sublime Systems, founded by Professor Yet-Ming Chiang and former postdoc Leah Ellis, has developed a sustainable way to make one of the world’s most common materials.

MIT News Office

August 9, 2024

New framework empowers pavement life-cycle decision-making while reducing data collection burden

MIT Concrete Sustainability Hub research presents a streamlined pavement life-cycle assessment framework to enable a large set of stakeholders to conduct environmental analysis of pavements.

As part of a MITEI-sponsored field trip to the Netherlands to experience the country’s approach to sustainable energy, MIT students received a tour of EnTranCe, a facility dedicated to researching hydrogen usage within the energy grid, at Hanze University in Groningen.

MIT News Office

August 8, 2024

Going Dutch on climate

MIT students get first-hand view of climate-proofing the Netherlands.

“There’s an old adage: Unless you measure something, you can’t change it,” says Context Labs founder Dan Harple.

MIT News Office

August 7, 2024

Tracking emissions to help companies reduce their environmental footprint

Context Labs, led by Dan Harple SM ’13, uses AI-enabled data analytics and verification to help companies measure their true greenhouse emissions and document reductions.

“As critical challenges such as climate, health, energy, and food security increasingly affect people’s lives around the world, decision-makers need a better understanding of the earth in its full complexity — and that includes people, technologies, and institutions as well as environmental processes,” says Professor Noelle Selin.

MIT News Office

August 5, 2024

MIT School of Science launches Center for Sustainability Science and Strategy

New center taps Institute-wide expertise to improve understanding of, and responses to, sustainability challenges.