Understanding the impact of deep-sea mining
Mining materials from the sea floor could help secure a low-carbon future, but researchers are racing to understand the environmental effects.
Mary Beth Gallagher | Department of Mechanical Engineering | Dec. 5, 2019 | mit~11 mins
Tags: mechanical-engineering school-of-engineering oceanography-and-ocean-engineering environment sustainability batteries renewable-energy research energy-storage
Women in STEM: Dr Jenny Zhang
Dr Jenny Zhang is a group leader and BBSRC David Phillips Fellow in the Department of Chemistry, where she is re-wiring photosynthesis to generate renewable fuels. Here, she tells us about why she switched from cancer research to sustainability, how her Fellowship programme is helping her develop leadership skills, and why eggs in her childhood home would regularly go missing.
Cambridge University News | Dec. 5, 2019 | cambridge~6 mins
Tags: energy fuel solar sustainability sustainable-earth women-in-stem
Green-sky thinking for propulsion and power
A rapid way of turning ideas into new technologies in the aviation and power industries has been developed at Cambridge’s Whittle Laboratory. Here, Professor Rob Miller, Director of the Whittle, describes how researchers plan to scale the process to cover around 80% of the UK’s future aerodynamic technology needs.
Cambridge University News | Dec. 4, 2019 | cambridge~7 mins
Tags: sustainable-earth environment aircraft energy innovation engineering climate-change carbon-emissions
How biomarkers can record and reconstruct climate trends
Scientists reveal the genes and proteins controlling the chemical structure of a paleoclimate biomarker.
Fatima Husain | EAPS | Dec. 4, 2019 | mit~5 mins
Tags: eaps school-of-science research climate ocean-science dna biology geology climate-change microbes evolution genetics bacteria earth-and-atmospheric-sciences national-science-foundation-nsf department-of-energy-doe
Green-sky thinking for propulsion and power
A rapid way of turning ideas into new technologies in the aviation and power industries has been developed at Cambridge’s Whittle Laboratory. Here, Professor Rob Miller, Director of the Whittle, describes how researchers plan to scale the process to cover around 80% of the UK’s future aerodynamic technology needs.
Cambridge University News | Dec. 4, 2019 | cambridge~7 mins
Tags: sustainable-earth environment aircraft energy innovation engineering climate-change carbon-emissions
Toward more efficient computing, with magnetic waves
Circuit design offers a path to “spintronic” devices that use little electricity and generate practically no heat.
Rob Matheson | MIT News Office | Nov. 28, 2019 | mit~7 mins
Tags: research computer-science-and-technology nanoscience-and-nanotechnology spintronics electronics energy quantum-computing materials-science-and-engineering design research-laboratory-of-electronics electrical-engineering-computer-science-eecs school-of-engineering
Clear, conductive coating could protect advanced solar cells, touch screens
New material should be relatively easy to produce at an industrial scale, researchers say.
David L. Chandler | MIT News Office | Nov. 22, 2019 | mit~5 mins
Tags: research school-of-engineering mechanical-engineering chemical-engineering polymers optoelectronics solar renewable-energy materials-science-and-engineering nanoscience-and-nanotechnology electrical-engineering-computer-science-eecs
MIT Energy Initiative report charts pathways for sustainable personal transportation
Technological innovations, policies, and behavioral changes will all be needed to reach Paris climate agreement targets.
Kathryn Luu | MIT Energy Initiative | Nov. 19, 2019 | mit~10 mins
Tags: mit-energy-initiative-mitei sustainability alternative-energy oil-and-gas electric-vehicles infrastructure policy research automobiles autonomous-vehicles cities emissions china energy joint-program-on-the-science-and-policy-of-global-change
Researchers generate terahertz laser with laughing gas
Device may enable “T-ray vision” and better wireless communication.
Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office | Nov. 14, 2019 | mit~10 mins
Tags: energy mathematics physics research school-of-science wireless national-science-foundation-nsf department-of-defense-dod
Using light to generate order in an exotic material
Physics experiment with ultrafast laser pulses produces a previously unseen phase of matter.
David L. Chandler | MIT News Office | Nov. 11, 2019 | mit~6 mins
Tags: research physics lasers school-of-science department-of-energy-doe
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