Biotech startup with MIT Tata Center roots produces 15-minute tests for Covid-19
E25Bio, a Cambridge, Massachusetts-based biotech startup that develops diagnostic tests for infectious diseases like dengue and Zika, has a new rapid antigen test for Covid-19. The company’s...
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MIT Climate Symposium: Deep cuts in greenhouse emissions are tough but...
How can the world cut its greenhouse gas emissions in time to avert the most catastrophic impacts of global climate change? It won’t be easy, but there are reasons to be optimistic that the problems...
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Khethworks: Startup deploys solar-powered pumps to help irrigate crops all...
Toward the end of 2019, startup Khethworks began selling what the team refers to internally as “version one” of its 320-watt solar-powered water pump. The pump allows farmers in India who rely on crop...
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Swift Solar: Startup with MITEI roots develops lightweight solar panels
Joel Jean PhD ’17, co-founder of Swift Solar, stands in front of the company’s sign at its permanent location in San Carlos, California. Photo courtesy of Joel Jean. Joel Jean PhD ’17 spent two years...
View ArticleNestor Sepulveda: Zeroing in on decarbonization
To avoid the most destructive consequences of climate change, the world’s electric energy systems must stop producing carbon by 2050. It seems like an overwhelming technological, political, and...
View ArticleEnergy undergrad named 2020 Rhodes Scholar
Energy Studies Minor undergraduate Claire Halloran was one of five MIT students selected for the 2020 cohort of the prestigious Rhodes Scholarship program. All will begin postgraduate studies at Oxford...
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Energy alumni: Where are they now?
Addison Stark SM ’10, Mechanical Engineering and Technology and Public Policy, PhD ’15, Mechanical Engineering Credit: Greg Gibson, Bipartisan Policy Center Addison Stark is the associate director for...
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Solar photovoltaics
In brief During the past decade, both the cost of utility-scale solar arrays and the value of the electricity they provide have dropped. MIT researchers examined the net impact of those two trends on...
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A new approach to CO2 capture
In brief MIT researchers have demonstrated a system that promises to capture carbon dioxide (CO2) in various exhaust streams—from power plants to home furnaces—and even retrieve it from ambient air. At...
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Transportation policymaking in Chinese cities
In brief Transportation experts at MIT have developed new insights into how decision makers in hundreds of Chinese cities design and adopt policies relating to transportation—policies that could...
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