Applying a small voltage to a catalyst can increase the rates of reactions used in petrochemical processing, pharmaceutical manufacture, and many other processes.

The MIT Environmental Solutions Journalism Fellowship provides support to journalists dedicated to connecting local stories to broader climate contexts.

Political science and physics major Leela Fredlund wants to ensure fairness and justice prevail in humanity’s leap into space.

MIT researchers developed technology that allows vaccines to be directly inserted into the lymph nodes to target two of the most common mutations in the KRAS gene, which cause roughly one third of all cancers. “The team modified the small vaccine components to include a fatty acid, which enables the vaccine to effectively hitch a ride on albumin, a common protein found throughout the body. Albumin serves as a molecular shuttle bus, with pockets on its surface where fatty acids can bind to it.”