Cleaner air, longer lives | MIT News
Research shows the Clean Air Act was likely responsible for a dramatic decline in atmospheric organic aerosol.
Dec. 25, 2017 • ~7 min
Scientists detect comets outside our solar system | MIT News
Team of professional and citizen scientists identifies tails of comets streaking past a distant star.
Oct. 25, 2017 • ~8 min
Good Housekeeping honors rocket scientist Tiera Guinn '17 | MIT News
Design engineer and 2017 alumna working on the largest rocket ever created by NASA was named an "Awesome Woman of 2017."
Oct. 16, 2017 • ~2 min
Stanislaw Olbert, professor emeritus of physics and a pioneering theorist of the space age, dies at 94 | MIT News
Olbert researched measurements of solar wind with instruments on several NASA space missions, including the Voyager probes.
Oct. 3, 2017 • ~6 min
Astronaut Kate Rubins returns to the Whitehead Institute to describe her experiences in low-Earth orbit | MIT News
Former Whitehead Fellow and recent International Space Station resident gives public talk and engages with the next generation of scientists and engineers.
Sept. 20, 2017 • ~4 min
Mathematics predicts a sixth mass extinction | MIT News
By 2100, oceans may hold enough carbon to launch mass extermination of species in future millennia.
Sept. 20, 2017 • ~9 min
Neighboring exoplanets may hold water, study finds | MIT News
Observations and modeling suggest TRAPPIST-1 exoplanets may have held onto water, billions of years after their formation.
Aug. 31, 2017 • ~8 min
Danielle Wood joins Media Lab faculty | MIT News
MIT alumna is establishing a new research group aimed at harnessing space engineering to improve life on Earth.
Aug. 28, 2017 • ~6 min
Lunar dynamo’s lifetime extended by at least 1 billion years | MIT News
Findings suggest two mechanisms may have powered the moon’s ancient churning, molten core.
Aug. 9, 2017 • ~9 min
Tiny terahertz laser could be used for imaging, chemical detection | MIT News
New design boosts the power output of the best-performing chip-scale terahertz laser by 80 percent.
Aug. 8, 2017 • ~7 min
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