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A new technique enables the conversion of an ordinary camera into a light-field camera capable of recording high-resolution, multiperspective images.

Research initiatives under the HPI–MIT Designing for Sustainability program span cybersecurity in supply chains, AI-driven material efficiency, and AI-powered startup success forecasting. Interdisciplinary teams from MIT and the Hasso Plattner Institute tackle pressing sustainability challenges and drive impactful solutions forward.

MIT’s Jameel World Education Lab has awarded more than $900k in Education Innovation Grants to researchers exploring electrical engineering, extended reality, physical movement, ecological sustainability, and other topics.

In the race to draw down greenhouse gas emissions around the world, scientists at MIT are looking to carbon-capture technologies to decarbonize the most stubborn industrial emitters.

MIT researchers found how carbon dioxide can be captured and converted through a single electrochemical process. A system based on these findings could help cut emissions from the hardest-to-decarbonize industries, such as steel and cement.

An MIT research team has made a breakthrough in understanding how iron selenide, an unconventional superconductor, undergoes a nematic transition.’

With supercomputers and machine learning, MIT physicist Phiala Shanahan aims to illuminate the structure of everyday particles and uncover signs of dark matter.

MIT faculty members Anna Frebel, Liang Fu, Nuh Gedik, Or Hen, Nuno Loureiro, and Jesse Thaler were selected as American Physical Society fellows for 2022. This award recognizes their contributions to the physics community through their innovative research, leadership, and teaching.

Mary Matheson, an award-winning British director, is joining Arizona State University as professor of practice in the new program for Narrative and Emerging Media in Los Angeles.

MIT anthropologist Bettina Stoetzer discusses her new book on ruderal ecologies, her MIT environmental justice class — and how people and societies can expand their "imagination for how to live otherwise."