Zach Winn

Driven to solve hard problems, MIT Associate Professor Zachary Hartwig is advancing a new approach to nuclear fusion power plants.

MIT spinout Electrified Thermal Solutions developed an electrically conductive firebrick that can store heat for hours and discharge it by heating air or gas to temperatures high enough to power the most demanding industrial applications. The bricks could help hard-to-decarbonize sectors utilize renewable energy for the first time.

The startup Alsym Energy, co-founded by MIT Professor Kripa Varanasi, is hoping its nonflammable batteries can link renewables with the industrial sector and beyond.

MIT student Claire Wang describes her participation in memory sports, the recent Tournament of Memory Champions, and how memory palaces can improve recall.

The startup SiPhox, founded by former MIT research scientists, has developed an intregrated photonic chip to enable high-quality, home-based blood testing.

Phoenix Tailings, co-founded by MIT alumni, is creating new domestic supply chains for the rare earth metals and other critical materials needed for the clean energy transition.

Ambience Healthcare, founded by MIT alumni, automates documentation for clinicians before, during, and after patient visits. The founders say clinicians using Ambience save time on documentation, report lower levels of burnout, and develop higher-quality relationships with their patients.

Elemind, founded by researchers from MIT, developed a headband that uses acoustic stimulation to move people into a sleep state.

The startup Brelyon, founded by former MIT postdoc Barmak Heshmat, has created an ultrawide 3D display for immersive digital experiences, with no headsets required.

This year’s MIT delta v Demo Day featured students showcasing their startups’ progress along with a lively post-event reception.

An MIT class challenged students to evaluate technologies to help MIT decarbonize — with implications for organizations across the globe.

MIT spinout 247Solar is building high-temperature, concentrated solar power systems that use overnight thermal energy storage to provide round-the-clock power and industrial-grade heat. The systems can be used as standalone microgrids for communities or to provide power in remote places like mines and farms.

In the U.S., eighty percent of people are locked out of the solar market because they can’t put solar on their rooftop. Solstice, co-founded by Sandhya Murali, MBA ’15, and Stephanie Speirs, MBA ’17, is changing the system with an inclusive model of community solar.

Ian A. Waitz has been appointed the new MIT vice president for research. In the role, Waitz will report to President Sally Kornbluth and oversee the Institute’s vast research enterprise.

An alum’s cement alternative could significantly reduce carbon dioxide emissions from concrete production.

MIT Associate Professor Desiree Plata has a lifelong mission of making sustainability a bigger factor in design decisions.

C16 Biosciences, conceived in an MIT class, has harnessed synthetic biology to try to replace an environmentally damaging industry.

The 2023 student-run MIT Energy Conference brought together energy leaders from around the world, with an eye toward the war in Ukraine and other international developments.

Multiply Labs’ robotic clusters could ease major bottlenecks in the production of drugs for intractable diseases.

Inder Singh’s smart-thermometer startup provides real-time fever data to combat covid-19.