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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.