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MIT engineers have developed a heat-rejecting film that could be applied to a building’s windows to reflect up to 70 per cent of the sun’s incoming heat. Their invention could lower energy bills by...
A new type of lithium-based battery being developed by researchers at MIT could be made partly from carbon dioxide captured from power plants, preventing the greenhouse gas from ever making it to the atmosphere....
An innovative mesh devised by MIT researchers could help farmers dramatically reduce the amount of pesticides they spray. When spraying fertilizers or pesticides onto crops, the size of the droplets makes a big difference....
A prototype mass timber building has shown that even huge buildings can be constructed primarily with wood. The “Longhouse” is 12 metres tall and warmed via passive solar heating. Because the construction of all...
Researchers at MIT and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory have found that carbon pricing can be an effective way to curb emissions of greenhouse gases. Putting a price on carbon in the form of...
UN Environment and MIT have partnered to create a contest to inspire innovative, practical solutions to help address climate change and other sustainability goals. The 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) address topics as varied...
MIT researchers have engineered a plant that glows so brightly in the dark you can read a book next to it. By embedding nanoparticles into the plant leaves, their technology could one day replace...
The inefficiency of power conversion can be reduced thanks to a new design from MIT researchers. This could dramatically cut energy waste in electric vehicles, data centers, and the power grid. Power electronics, which...
MIT researchers have developed a new system that could potentially be used for converting power plant emissions of carbon dioxide into useful fuels for cars, trucks, and planes, as well as into chemical feedstocks...
An MIT student is recycling air pollution to make art. His startup Graviky Labs has developed a technology that captures particle matter from diesel exhaust and turns it into inks and paints. Soot is...
MIT researchers have developed a new flow battery that has the potential to revolutionize how renewable energy is storage. It can store electricity for very long durations for about a fifth the cost of...
Food-waste recycling programmes are most successfully when there is solid government policy to back them up, such as “pay as you throw”, finds new research from MIT. “The food system is notoriously wasteful at...
Climate change will severely affect water supplies in major agricultural regions in the US. Cotton farmers will be the hardest hit, finds a new study. The US could face a 0.7% drop in GDP...
A new study by MIT climate scientists, economists, and agriculture experts finds that certain hotspots in the US will experience severe reductions in crop yields by 2050, due to climate change’s impact on irrigation....
Tropical peat swamp forests, which once occupied large swaths of Southeast Asia and other areas, provided a significant “sink” that helped remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. But such forests have been disappearing fast...
A new drip irrigation design for watering crops could halve the amount of energy required by solar-powered systems. It brings cost-effectiveness, too, putting the system in reach of more farmers. Many farms in drought-prone...
A new study shows that urban ride sharing is feasible in a wide variety of cities around the world. It found that shareability is influenced by the way we organise our lives, rather than...
An MIT study on the impact of Volkswagen’s excess emissions estimates that around 1,200 people in Europe will die prematurely as a result of the ‘defeat devices’. Germany, Poland, France and the Czech Republic...
The MIT spin-off Sistine Solar has developed solar panels that can display any image. They can mimic home facades so they don’t stand out. But they could also conceivably be used to display advertisements....
A student team from Delft University in the Netherlands came in first place over the weekend at the Hyperloop competition, an ultra-fast futuristic vehicle conceived of by Tesla founder Elon Musk. This weekend’s competition was...
