Will faster federal reviews speed up the clean energy shift? Two legal scholars explain what the National Environmental Policy Act does and doesn't do

Do environmental reviews improve projects or delay them and drive up costs? Two legal scholars explain how the law works and how it could influence the ongoing transition to renewable energy.

James Salzman, Professor of Environmental Law, University of California, Los Angeles • conversation
June 8, 2023 ~10 min

Megawatt electrical motor designed by MIT engineers could help electrify aviation

Technology demonstrations show the machine’s major components achieve the required performance.

Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office • mit
June 8, 2023 ~9 min


Energy generators' soaring revenues highlight deep problems in the way Britain prices its electricity

British electricity generators saw their revenues increase by £29 billion in 2022 – here’s why that happened.

Serguey Maximov Gajardo, Research Fellow at the Institute for Sustainable Resources, UCL • conversation
June 7, 2023 ~8 min

Tiny diamond rotor could improve protein studies

A new way of machining microscale rotors from diamond crystal can enable ultrasensitive NMR devices for probing proteins and other materials.

David L. Chandler | MIT News Office • mit
May 24, 2023 ~10 min

Is generative AI bad for the environment? A computer scientist explains the carbon footprint of ChatGPT and its cousins

Generative AI, those astonishingly powerful language- and image-generating tools taking the world by storm, come at a price: a big carbon footprint. But not all AIs are equally dirty.

Kate Saenko, Associate Professor of Computer Science, Boston University • conversation
May 23, 2023 ~7 min

How we stop floating wind turbines the size of skyscrapers from drifting away

Offshore wind turbines are getting bigger and bigger – and many of them now float – here’s how we stop them drifting away.

Susan Gourvenec, Royal Academy of Engineering Chair in Emerging Technologies - Intelligent & Resilient Ocean Engineering, University of Southampton • conversation
May 23, 2023 ~7 min

Six ways MIT is taking action on climate

A variety of recent events highlighted efforts by faculty, staff, and students to make a difference today.

Caroline Perry | Office of the Vice President for Research • mit
May 22, 2023 ~9 min

Team uses 3D printing to strengthen a key material in aerospace, energy-generation applications

The approach could improve the performance of many other materials as well.

Elizabeth A. Thomson | Materials Research Laboratory • mit
May 19, 2023 ~6 min


Driving on sunshine: clean, usable liquid fuels made from solar power

Researchers have developed a solar-powered technology that converts carbon dioxide and water into liquid fuels that can be added directly to a car’s engine as

Cambridge University News • cambridge
May 18, 2023 ~5 min

Quantum physics proposes a new way to study biology – and the results could revolutionize our understanding of how life works

Studying the brief and tiny quantum effects that drive living systems could one day lead to new approaches to treatments and technologies.

Clarice D. Aiello, Quantum Biology Tech (QuBiT) Lab, Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles • conversation
May 15, 2023 ~9 min

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