Colette Heald studies atmospheric gases and particles, and how they affect air quality and climate.

Winning teams will use grants to advance research in areas including fuel cells, solar-powered desalination, and impacts of electric vehicle charging on the power grid.

Continental shifting may have acted as a natural mechanism for extreme carbon sequestration.

MIT ranked within the top 5 globally for 19 of 42 subject areas.

Exoplanet lacks atmosphere, is covered in rivers of magma.

Observations of an extreme-weather planet raise questions about hot Jupiters’ origins.

Sponges may be source of molecular fossils that significantly predate Cambrian explosion.

Freshman learning community recognized as an Exemplar in Engineering Ethics Education.

Stalagmites reveal huge shift in ancient Madagascar’s plant life, unrelated to climate change.