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Water is Life

As overpopulation and lack of rainfall fuel a crisis-level need in rural India for affordable drinking water, PhD candidate Natasha Wright and Assistant Professor Amos Winter work to design a low-cost desalination system, guided by insight from their extensive in-the-field research.

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Physicists bring human-scale object to near standstill, reaching a quantum state

For the first time, scientists, including Assistant Professor Vivishek Sudhir, have cooled a large, human-scale object to close to its motional ground state.

Could we recycle plastic bags into fabrics of the future?

MIT researchers including Dr. Svetlana Boriskina have designed a new kind of sustainable textile from polyethylene fibers that may help humans adapt to and combat the effects of climate change.