Author Archives: Meghan Harrington
MIT course helps researchers crack secrets of ancient pottery
Jennifer Meanwell carefully placed a pottery sherd—or broken fragment of ceramic—under the circular, diamond-coated blade of a benchtop saw. “Cutting the sample is the first big step,” said Meanwell,…
Liftoff: The Climate Project at MIT takes flight
The leaders of The Climate Project at MIT met with community members at a campus forum on Monday, helping to kick off the Institute’s major new…
New substrate material for flexible electronics could help combat e-waste
Electronic waste, or e-waste, is a rapidly growing global problem, and it’s expected to worsen with the production of new kinds of flexible electronics for robotics, wearable devices,…
Teaching material: MIT camp gives educators materials science skills
For the third year, a group of teachers spent a week at MIT designing and testing new materials, learning cutting-edge tools, and practicing easy-to-replicate experiments.The Materials Genome Camp,…
Mission directors announced for the Climate Project at MIT
The Climate Project at MIT has appointed leaders for each of its six focal areas, or Climate Missions, President Sally Kornbluth announced in a letter to the MIT…
Proton-conducting materials could enable new green energy technologies
As the name suggests, most electronic devices today work through the movement of electrons. But materials that can efficiently conduct protons — the nucleus of the hydrogen atom…
Empowering future innovators through a social impact lens
What if testing for Lyme disease were as simple as dropping a tick in a test tube at home, waiting a few minutes, and looking for a change…