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Researchers say they may have solved a scientific mystery at the heart of some of the most explosive volcanic eruptions.

The Office of the Vice Chancellor and the Registrar’s Office have announced this year’s Margaret MacVicar Faculty Fellows: professor of mechanical engineering Kenneth Kamrin; professor of electrical engineering and computer science Jeffrey Lang; prof

For the first 2 billion years of Earth’s history, there was barely any oxygen in the air. While some microbes were photosynthesizing by the latter part of this period, oxygen had not yet accumulated at levels that would impact the global biosphere.Bu

In a Climate Grand Challenge proposal called the Advanced Carbon Mineralization Initiative, MIT Assistant Professor Matej Pec studies different ways that can make rock mineralization more effective at capturing carbon and storing it underground.

This is the second article in a four-part interview series highlighting the work of the 27 MIT Climate Grand Challenges finalists, which received a total

There was barely any oxygen in the air for the first 2 billion years of Earth's history and though some microbes were photosynthesizing by the latter part of this period, accumulation of oxygen had not reached levels that would impact the global biosphere.

There was barely any oxygen in the air for the first 2 billion years of Earths history and though some microbes were photosynthesizing by the latter part of this period, accumulation of oxygen had not reached levels that would impact the global biosphere.

A new hypothesis suggests that oxygen finally started accumulating in Earths atmosphere 2.3 billion years ago thanks to interactions between certain marine microbes and minerals in ocean sediments.

The first worlds beyond our solar system were discovered three decades ago. Since then, close to 5,000 exoplanets have been confirmed in our galaxy.

Researchers at MIT have proposed a new theory to explain how oxygen concentration might have built up in the Earth's atmosphere.