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Accounting for firms’ positive impacts on the environment
Accounting for firms’ positive impacts on the environment

A new framework calculates companies’ beneficial environmental "handprints" as well as their negative footprints, to encourage eco-friendly actions.

Sustainable solutions at home and abroad
Sustainable solutions at home and abroad

Mechanical engineering student Arnav Patel is on a mission to promote sustainability — from Cambridge to the Himalaya.

Powering the energy transition with better storage
Powering the energy transition with better storage

Researchers evaluate the role and value of long-duration energy storage technologies in securing a carbon-free electric grid.

Method offers inexpensive imaging at the scale of virus particles
Method offers inexpensive imaging at the scale of virus particles

Using an ordinary light microscope, researchers can now obtain images with unprecedented accuracy.

Supporting the Covid-19 vaccine rollout with extra-strength glass
Supporting the Covid-19 vaccine rollout with extra-strength glass

Corning executive Mark Kurz SM ’95 leads a team producing vials for vaccine distribution.

Controlling bubble formation on electrodes
Controlling bubble formation on electrodes

Study finds the wettability of porous electrode surfaces is key to making efficient water-splitting or carbon-capturing systems.

Design could enable longer lasting, more powerful lithium batteries
Design could enable longer lasting, more powerful lithium batteries

Use of a novel electrolyte could allow advanced metal electrodes and higher voltages, boosting capacity and cycle life.

MIT engineers make filters from tree branches to purify drinking water
MIT engineers make filters from tree branches to purify drinking water

Prototypes tested in India show promise as a low-cost, natural filtration option.

Working toward a more secure world
Working toward a more secure world

Senior Nina Levine is researching technologies for detecting radioactive material, as she pursues a dual path in nuclear science and policy.

Measuring the invisible
Measuring the invisible

Particle physicist Lindley Winslow seeks the universe’s smallest particles for answers to its biggest questions.

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