Cleaner air, longer lives | MIT News

Research shows the Clean Air Act was likely responsible for a dramatic decline in atmospheric organic aerosol.

Carolyn Schmitt | Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering • mit
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.

Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office • mit
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."

Jay London | MIT Alumni Association • mit
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.

Sandi Miller | Department of Physics • mit
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.

Nicole Giese | Whitehead Institute • mit
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.

Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office • mit
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.

Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office • mit
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.

MIT Media Lab • mit
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.

Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office • mit
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.

Larry Hardesty | MIT News Office • mit
Aug. 8, 2017 ~7 min

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