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Technique could enable cheaper fertilizer production
Most of the world’s fertilizer is produced in large manufacturing plants, which require huge amounts of energy to generate the high temperatures and pressures needed to combine nitrogen and hydrogen into ammonia. MIT chemical engineers are working to develop a smaller-scale alternative, which they envision could be used to locally produce fertilizer for farmers in […]
Will the Covid-19 pandemic change national security?
As the Covid-19 pandemic continues to inflict huge damage around the world, international affairs experts are increasingly wondering: Will the virus make countries reconsider their national security strategies? After all, conventional defense capacities have been of limited use against a devastating contagion — and more viruses like Covid-19 may well be out there. While few […]
Engineers develop precision injection system for plants
While the human world is reeling from one pandemic, there are several ongoing epidemics that affect crops and put global food production at risk. Oranges, olives, and bananas are already under threat in many areas due to diseases that affect plants’ circulatory systems and that cannot be treated by applying pesticides. A new method developed […]
3 Questions: Areg Danagoulian on a new arms control tool and the future of nuclear security
Areg Danagoulian, associate professor in the MIT Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering, has built a career around nuclear detection technology. His work has focused, among other things, on a system that could greatly improve the current process for verifying compliance of nuclear warheads. Earlier this year, he published new work on physical cryptographic nuclear […]
MIT team draws on supply chain expertise to help protect health workers from Covid-19
A team led by MIT faculty has helped bring much-needed personal protective equipment (PPE) to New England, as part of the larger regional effort to fight the Covid-19 pandemic. The group, which calls itself the Covid-19 Policy Alliance, has been working on multiple projects, including equipment delivery, over the last several weeks. “One goal of […]
Amid shutdowns, supply chains pivot and global demand for specialized talent intensifies
The global landscape of supply chain management has changed drastically in the past several weeks. Businesses, organizations, and people are rapidly innovating to improve supply chains and upskill and reskill the workforce and themselves to accommodate disruptions caused by the global Covid-19 health crisis. Online retailers and logistics providers are announcing vast hiring initiatives, while […]
Emergency-coordination system from Lincoln Laboratory supports Covid-19 response
When the Republic of North Macedonia joined a project supported by the NATO Science for Peace and Security Program (SPS) in 2016, the country teamed up with MIT Lincoln Laboratory to adopt the laboratory’s Next-Generation Incident Command System (NICS) as its official emergency-response platform. Now, this system is helping North Macedonian emergency agencies coordinate their […]
3 Questions: Fotini Christia on new deal-making in Afghanistan
More than 18 years ago, in the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the United States sent troops to Afghanistan with NATO as a measure to protect the U.S. homeland and its allies from the threat of terrorism. Now, the Trump administration hopes to bring an end what is referred to by many as an […]
MIT’s entrepreneurial ecosystem steps up to the challenge of Covid-19
Innovation and entrepreneurship aren’t easy. New companies are forced to make due with minimal resources. Decisions must be made in the face of great uncertainty. Conditions change rapidly. Perhaps unsurprisingly then, MIT’s I&E community has stepped up to the unforeseen challenges of the Covid-19 pandemic. Groups from many corners of the Institute are adapting to […]
Making MIT entrepreneurship matter in Hong Kong
You have two weeks in a city that is 8,000 miles away from everything familiar to you. Alongside you are 34 of the best minds selected from both MIT and Hong Kong universities. There is one goal: build products that will transform an underserved district. This objective was set by the staff of the MIT […]