Passionate about materials science “from the atom to the system,” Elsa Olivetti brings a holistic approach to sustainability to her teaching, research, and coalition-building.

A sad song coupled with a happy movie scene can become strangely memorable.

Ten years after the founding of the undergraduate research program, its alumni reflect on the unexpected gifts of their experiences.

Sea-level rises and storm surges don’t discriminate, but societal structures do.

The natural gas industry has spent years trying to undermine scientific findings about gas stoves and health. If this sounds familiar, that’s no accident.

By blending 2D images with foundation models to build 3D feature fields, a new MIT method helps robots understand and manipulate nearby objects with open-ended language prompts.

The approach directly converts the greenhouse gas into formate, a solid fuel that can be stored indefinitely and could be used to heat homes or power industries.

Coauthors of a “Footwear Manifesto” report discuss survey findings that point to industry collaboration as a path to reducing waste in shoe manufacturing.

Simply trying to avoid synthetic clothing won’t fix our microfibre pollution problem