MIT report provides guidance on climate-related financial disclosures
Recommendations could help companies deliver more useful disclosures to investors on risks they face due to climate change.
David L. Chandler | MIT News Office | Nov. 6, 2019 | mit~8 mins
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A new mathematical approach to understanding zeolites
Study of minerals widely used in industrial processes could lead to discovery of new materials for catalysis and filtering.
David L. Chandler | MIT News Office | Oct. 7, 2019 | mit~8 mins
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MIT.nano awards inaugural NCSOFT seed grants for gaming technologies
Five software and hardware projects will launch the MIT.nano Immersion Lab Gaming Program.
MIT.nano | Sept. 30, 2019 | mit~6 mins
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3 Questions: Why sensing, why now, what next?
Brian Anthony, co-leader of SENSE.nano, discusses sensing for augmented and virtual reality and for advanced manufacturing.
MIT.nano | Sept. 20, 2019 | mit~6 mins
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What’s the best way to cut vehicle greenhouse-gas emissions?
Study finds that in some locations, lightweight gas-powered cars could have a bigger emissions-reducing impact than electric ones.
David L. Chandler | MIT News Office | Aug. 26, 2019 | mit~7 mins
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Study measures how fast humans react to road hazards
In “semiautonomous” cars, older drivers may need more time to take the wheel when responding to the unexpected.
Rob Matheson | MIT News Office | Aug. 7, 2019 | mit~8 mins
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Making wireless communication more energy efficient
Along with studying theory, "it's also important to me that the work we are doing will help to solve real-world problems,” says LIDS student Omer Tanovic.
Greta Friar | Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems | July 3, 2019 | mit~10 mins
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Fabrics poised to become the new software
Basic research advance leads to production of more than 250,000 chips embedded within fibers in less than a year.
Zach Winn | MIT News Office | May 21, 2019 | mit~7 mins
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Solution for remotely monitoring oil wells wins MIT $100K
MIT startup Acoustic Wells earned the grand prize at the annual entrepreneurship competition.
Zach Winn | MIT News Office | May 17, 2019 | mit~7 mins
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Six suborbital research payloads from MIT fly to space and back
Space Exploration Initiative research aboard Blue Origin’s New Shepard experiment capsule crossed the Karman line for three minutes of sustained microgravity.
Stephanie Strom | MIT Media Lab | May 3, 2019 | mit~9 mins
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