Interest is growing in mining the ocean for valuable metals. A new study helps gauge the extent of the impact.

After decades of plasma physics research, Senior Research Scientist Brian LaBombard is taking on magnets for MIT’s new fusion effort.

By making the microbes more tolerant to toxic byproducts, researchers show they can use a wider range of feedstocks, beyond corn.

In the Northeast, Canadian hydropower could make it so.

How an MIT engineering course became an incubator for fusion design innovations.

A new approach to identifying useful formulations could help solve the degradation issue for these promising new lightweight photovoltaics.

Analysis quantifies a dramatic price drop that parallels similar improvements in solar and wind energy, and shows further steep declines could be possible

New findings may help unleash the potential of high-powered, solid-electrolyte lithium batteries.

National Academies study says fusion can help decarbonize US energy, calls for public-private approach to pilot plant operation by 2035-40.

Reducing internal losses could pave the way to low-cost perovskite-based photovoltaics that match silicon cells’ output.