News + Impact - MIT EAPS

Carl Wunsch honored with Frontiers of Knowledge Award

April 2, 2026

Categories: Awards + Promotions, Climate, Faculty + Senior Researchers

A cartoon cereal box is called “Phyt-O’s: the phytoplankton of the future” and shows a happy plankton with a bowl of plankton. Bubbles say “Carbs!” and “Protein?!”

Climate change may produce “fast-food” phytoplankton

March 31, 2026

Categories: Life + Environments, Research, Students + Postdocs

EAPS Scientists talk planetary defense on GBH’s The Curiosity Desk

March 31, 2026

Categories: In the Media, Natural Hazards, Planets

Earth, with layers of atmosphere. Molecules float in the layers.

A complicated future for a methane-cleansing molecule

March 24, 2026

Categories: Health of the Planet, Research, Students + Postdocs

A smartphone screen showing a World Meteorological Organization state of global climate warming graph.

3 Questions with Vincent Cooper: Refining climate warming projections by studying the past

March 20, 2026

Categories: Climate, Research, Students + Postdocs

A woman with two dogs step into a pond to cool off.

Adam Schlosser in the Boston Globe: How might climate change affect Cambridge and Somerville?

March 19, 2026

Categories: Climate, Faculty + Senior Researchers, In the Media

New study reveals hidden “chemical currency” fueling the ocean’s carbon cycle

March 18, 2026

Categories: Life + Environments, Research

CNN: New data shows asteroid 2024 YR4 will narrowly miss the moon

March 12, 2026

Categories: Faculty + Senior Researchers, In the Media, Planets

An asteroid speeds towards the moon.

3 Questions: Fortifying our planetary defenses

March 12, 2026

Categories: Faculty + Senior Researchers, Planets

Map of a cyclone track.

Eos: Slow atmospheric circulations shape storm tracks and wave-breaking patterns

March 11, 2026

Categories: Climate, In the Media, Research

Richard Teague named Fred Kavli Plenary Lecturer for 2026 AAS meeting

March 11, 2026

Categories: Awards + Promotions, Faculty + Senior Researchers, Planets

Ocean flood with floating dust.

Understanding how “marine snow” acts as a carbon sink

March 9, 2026

Categories: Faculty + Senior Researchers, Life + Environments, Research, Students + Postdocs

X-ray view of carbonate minerals deposited within a basalt core.

X-raying rocks reveals their carbon-storing capacity

March 6, 2026

Categories: Faculty + Senior Researchers, Landscapes + Planetary Interiors, Natural Resources, Research, Students + Postdocs

Three photos show: gigantic plume rising from ground; a vast valley on fire; and a satellite view of a giant plume arising from the ocean.

Study reveals climatic fingerprints of wildfires and volcanic eruptions

February 23, 2026

Categories: Climate, Research, Students + Postdocs

Roadway buckled by earthquake damage.

New study unveils the mechanism behind “boomerang” earthquakes

February 18, 2026

Categories: Faculty + Senior Researchers, Landscapes + Planetary Interiors, Natural Hazards, Research, Students + Postdocs

Lyle Nelson named Kerr-McGee Career Development Professor

February 17, 2026

Categories: Awards + Promotions, Faculty + Senior Researchers, Landscapes + Planetary Interiors, Life + Environments

How the search for extraterrestrial life helps sustainability on Earth

February 11, 2026

Categories: Life + Environments, Planets, Research, Students + Postdocs

A minimalist evolutionary tree in front of stylized cyanobacteria.

Some early life forms may have breathed oxygen well before it filled the atmosphere

February 6, 2026

Categories: Life + Environments, Research, Students + Postdocs

What makes the climate of Venus so hot?

February 3, 2026

Categories: Climate, Faculty + Senior Researchers, Planets

Images from experiments and graphs demonstrating simultaneous optical, mechanical, and acoustic measurements revealing brittle microcracking and crystal-plastic twinning in calcite generate distinguishable acoustic signals.

Eos: Visualizing and hearing the brittle–plastic transition

February 3, 2026

Categories: In the Media, Landscapes + Planetary Interiors, Natural Hazards, Research