System achieves new level of efficiency in harnessing sunlight to make fresh potable water from seawater.

Starting with higher-value niche markets and then expanding could help perovskite-based solar panels become competitive with silicon.

Solar panel costs have dropped lately, but slimming down silicon wafers could lead to even lower costs and faster industry expansion.

MIT researchers review renewable energy and carbon pricing policies as states consider repealing or relaxing renewable portfolio standards.

MIT study finds that challenges in measuring and mitigating leakage of methane, a powerful greenhouse gas, prove pivotal.

New material should be relatively easy to produce at an industrial scale, researchers say.

RFID-based devices work in indoor and outdoor lighting conditions, and communicate at greater distances.

Research shows that, contrary to accepted rule of thumb, a 10- or 15-year lifetime can be good enough.

Method for collecting two electrons from each photon could break through theoretical solar-cell efficiency limit.

Streamlined system for creating and analyzing perovskite compounds may cut development time from 20 years to two.