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An MIT study finds the hand magnets often used by meteorite hunters to identify a meteorite usually erase the meteorite’s magnetic memory — and much of its scientific value.

Ali Jadbabaie and Robert van der Hilst describe MIT's new undergraduate degree in climate system science and engineering.

An MIT study shows that if U.S. nuclear power plants are retired, the burning of coal, oil, and natural gas to fill the energy gap could cause more than 5,000 premature deaths.

MIT geobiologist Greg Fournier seeks to uncover the conditions leading to ecogenesis, or the emergence of life on Earth.

MIT postdoc Saverio Cambioni discusses new science from NASA’s DART mission, which slammed into asteroid Dimorphos, deflecting it slightly and finding it to be a boulder-rich “rubble-pile.”

MIT senior and EAPS major Aviva Intveld uses fossils and geology to reconstruct ancient climates. She works at the List Visual Arts Center and is committed to diversity and inclusion in STEM.

Health benefits associated with wind power could more than quadruple if operators turned down output from the most polluting fossil-fuel-based power plants when energy from wind is available. However, compared to wealthier communities, disadvantaged communities would reap a smaller share of these benefits.

MIT researchers have confirmed that Earth harbors a “stabilizing feedback” mechanism that acts over hundreds of thousands of years to keep global temperatures within a steady, habitable range.

Whether spending late nights at the observatory or working on animated films, MIT senior Skylar Larsen is reaching for the stars.

The abundant ocean microbe Prochlorococcus may be more of a mixotroph than it lets on. Long thought to rely solely on photosynthesis, the microbe may get as much as one-third of its carbon through a second strategy: consuming the dissolved remains of other dead microbes.