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Anne White to co-chair the Climate Nucleus
White and Selin will lead a new faculty committee to drive MIT's climate action plan over the next three years.
MIT-designed project achieves major advance toward fusion energy
New superconducting magnet breaks magnetic field strength records, paving the way for practical, commercial, carbon-free power.
A peculiar state of matter in layers of semiconductors
Scientists around the world are developing new hardware for quantum computers, a new type of device that could accelerate drug design, financial modeling, and weather prediction. They rely on qubits, bits of matter that can represent some combination of 1 and 0...
Using graphene foam to filter toxins from drinking water
MIT-led research team fashions graphene foam into device that can extract uranium and other heavy metals from tap water.
Vapor-collection technology saves water while clearing the air
System could reclaim pure water from power plant cooling towers; at-scale prototypes tested on MIT facilities have proven effective.
Inspiring a community of giving
Growing up in a family of seven children in Michigan, Fred Buckman dreamed of attending college at age 15. Although he was precocious and had skipped second grade, he faced significant disadvantages in the application process: no one in his family had...
Investigating materials for nuclear power
A longstanding interest in radiation’s effects on metals has drawn Michael Short into new areas such as nuclear security and microreactors. Michael Short came to MIT in the fall of 2001 as an 18-year-old first-year who grew up in Boston’s North Shore....
Why nuclear batteries offer a new approach to carbon-free energy
Jacopo Buongiorno and others say factory-built microreactors trucked to usage sites could be a safe, efficient option for decarbonizing electricity systems.
Professor Emeritus Sow-Hsin Chen, global expert in neutron science and devoted mentor, dies at 86
Novel contributions advanced dynamical properties of supercooled water and small-angle neutron and X-ray scattering over a 50-year career. Sow-Hsin Chen, emeritus professor of nuclear science and engineering, died peacefully on June 26 in West Newton, Massachusetts. He was 86. Born in pre-World...
Mingda Li wins DoE Early Career Award
Mingda Li received a 2021 Early Career Research Award given by the DoE Basic Energy Sciences Program for his work in machine learning augmented multimodal neutron scattering for emergent topological materials.