If there was one thing Cameron Halliday SM ’19, MBA ’22, PhD ’22 was exceptional at during the early days of his PhD at MIT, it was producing the same graph over and over again. Unfortunately for Halliday, the graph measured various materials’ ability to absorb CO2 at high temperaturesContinue Reading
If enacted, the bill’s measures would significantly curtail the scope and timelines for the federal environmental review process. By Aidan Hughes, Carl David Goette-Luciak The House of Representatives cleared the way for a massive overhaul of the federal environmental review process on Thursday, despite last-minute changes that led clean energyContinue Reading
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NASA Space Apps announced Thursday 10 winners of the 2025 NASA Space Apps Challenge. During this two-day hackathon, participants gathered at 551 local events across 167 countries and territories to showcase their STEM skills and proposed ways to transform NASA’s open data into actionable tools. Participants work on their projectsContinue Reading
NASA astronaut Mike Fincke works inside the NanoRacks Bishop airlock and installs technology demonstration hardware that may support orbital debris capture techniques or future space mining on small asteroids. NASA The Expedition 74 crew’s research schedule was filled with biomedical duties and artificial intelligence on Thursday to promote crew healthContinue Reading
The California Public Utilities Commission voted 4 to 1 on Thursday to keep profits at Southern California Edison and the state’s other big investor-owned utilities at a level that consumer groups say has long been inflated.Continue Reading
In a field defined by discovering, designing, and processing the materials that underpin modern technology, Diran Apelian ScD ’73 has a resounding message: Reuse can’t remain just the focus of a PhD thesis or a startup. It needs to be engineered from the beginning. Apelian, a metallurgist and MIT alumnusContinue Reading
Ernest Opoku knew he wanted to become a scientist when he was a little boy. But his school in Dadease, a small town in Ghana, offered no elective science courses — so Opoku created one for himself. Even though they had neither a dedicated science classroom nor a lab, OpokuContinue Reading
Much of the western U.S. is overdue for wildfire, with decades of suppression allowing fuel to build up across millions of hectares. Researchers estimate that 74% of the region is in a fire deficit, meaning far more land needs to burn to restore healthy forest conditions. Catching up would requireContinue Reading
Dr. John Sullivan Atmosphere and Enabling Capabilities Program Manager Dr. John T. Sullivan is currently serving on detail at NASA Headquarters since Spring 2025 as the Ground-Based Networks and Calibration/Validation Facilities Program Scientist and Deputy Program Manager for the Multi-Source Integrated Observatory. With a background in the Atmospheric Chemistry andContinue Reading