News + Impact - MIT EAPS

The ruins of Pompeii with a compositional analysis overlay.

Pompeii offers insights into ancient Roman building technology

December 9, 2025

Categories: Research

Two urban landscapes showing improved air quality when industry uses renewable energy sources.

When companies “go green,” air quality impacts can vary dramatically

December 8, 2025

Categories: Climate, Faculty + Senior Researchers, Health of the Planet, Research

When we remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, how long does it stay locked away?

December 4, 2025

Categories: Climate, Faculty + Senior Researchers, Landscapes + Planetary Interiors, Research

A figure can be seen standing near a marge crack in the ground caused by the 2019 Ridgecrest earthquake.

Eos: The Ridgecrest Earthquake Left Enduring Damage in Earth’s Deep Crust

November 15, 2025

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

Artist’s illustration of early Earth with fire, lava, volcanos, and meteors.

Geologists discover the first evidence of 4.5-billion-year-old “proto Earth”

October 14, 2025

Categories: Faculty + Senior Researchers, Landscapes + Planetary Interiors, Research

A Mobile Laser Scanning truck parked near a surface rupture in the California desert.

Earthquake damage at deeper depths occurs long after initial activity

October 6, 2025

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

A variety of sea sponges, some tall and cylindrical, some wide and flat, and some bowl-shaped.

The first animals on Earth may have been sea sponges, study suggests

September 29, 2025

Categories: Life + Environments, Research, Students + Postdocs

Solar panel arrays in a field.

MITEI Future Energy Systems Center funds new projects to advance the energy transition

September 17, 2025

Categories: Climate, Faculty + Senior Researchers, Health of the Planet, Research

Scanning electron photomicrograph highlights a region of rock that slipped during a laboratory-induced earthquake.

MIT geologists discover where energy goes during an earthquake

September 16, 2025

Categories: Landscapes + Planetary Interiors, Natural Hazards, Research

Colorful rings surrounding a star with lines weaving up and down through them.

Astronomers reveal planet-building’s secret ingredient: magnetism

September 12, 2025

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

A map of the Pacific Ocean showing cruise tracks overlaying a temperature gradient of the ocean.

Warming oceans may threaten key oxygen-producing microbe

September 9, 2025

Categories: Climate, Faculty + Senior Researchers, Life + Environments, Research

An artist’s rendition of the exoplanet TRAPPIST-1e as it transits in front of its host star.

New study finds habitable-zone planet unlikely to have a Venus- or Mars-like atmosphere

September 8, 2025

Categories: Planets, Research, Students + Postdocs

Boston skyline with decorative background.

Simpler models can outperform deep learning at climate prediction

August 26, 2025

Categories: Climate, Faculty + Senior Researchers, Research

Three colorful watery planets in space.

Planets without water could still produce certain liquids, a new study finds

August 11, 2025

Categories: Life + Environments, Planets, Research

Antarctica as seen from space, with coloring depicting ozone recovery.

Tracing persistent ozone-depleting emissions to their source

July 3, 2025

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

Satellite view of the Atlantic Ocean and neighboring continents with colored swirls superimposed over the ocean indicating distribution of Synechococcus phytoplankton.

NASA StoryMap: MIT Darwin Project ecosystem model explores biogeography of microbial environments

July 2, 2025

Categories: In the Media, Life + Environments, Research

A river reef on Tetiaroa.

Island rivers carve passageways through coral reefs

June 20, 2025

Categories: Landscapes + Planetary Interiors, Research, Students + Postdocs

Researchers taking samples from a small pool of water.

When Earth iced over, early life may have sheltered in meltwater ponds

June 19, 2025

Categories: Life + Environments, Research, Students + Postdocs

Anthony Wong stands at a research poster while explaining it to another person.

3Q’s: Investigating environmental impacts of alternative fuel usage

June 3, 2025

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

The crater-covered far side of the moon.

Why are some rocks on the moon highly magnetic? MIT scientists may have an answer

May 23, 2025

Categories: Faculty + Senior Researchers, Planets, Research, Students + Postdocs