Two MIT professors have proposed a new approach to estimating the risks of exposure to COVID-19 under different indoor settings. The guideline they developed suggests a limit for exposure time, based on the number of people, the size of the space, (...)
A new system developed by chemical engineers at MIT could provide a way of continuously removing carbon dioxide from a stream of waste gases, or even from the air. The key component is an electrochemically assisted membrane whose permeability to gas (...)
Two and a half years ago, MIT entered into a research agreement with startup company Commonwealth Fusion Systems to develop a next-generation fusion research experiment, called SPARC, as a precursor to a practical, emissions-free power plant.
Now, (...)
It was clear early on in the unfolding COVID-19 pandemic that a critical need in the coming weeks and months would be for ventilators, the potentially life-saving devices that keep air flowing into a patient whose ability to breathe is (...)
