News + Impact - MIT EAPS

Side-by-side headshots of Nancy Kanwisher, Robert Langer, and Sara Seager.

Sara Seager one of three MIT scientists named Kavli Prize Laureates

June 12, 2024

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

Ask MIT Climate: What are the best- and worst-case scenarios for sea level rise?

June 12, 2024

Categories: Climate, Faculty + Senior Researchers, Natural Hazards, Research

Two graphs side by side showing model predictions of extreme rainfall near Denver, Colorado. The one on the left shows square, poor resolution data. The one on the right is higher resolution.

Making climate models relevant for local decision makers

June 10, 2024

Categories: Climate, Faculty + Senior Researchers, Natural Hazards, Research

Babbin, Joint Program tapped for 2024 J-WAFS seed grants

June 3, 2024

Categories: Awards + Promotions, Faculty + Senior Researchers, Health of the Planet

Julien de Wit talks “puffy Jupiters” and new exoplanet questions with NBC Boston

May 30, 2024

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

Climate Explained: The polar jet stream and polar vortex

May 21, 2024

Categories: Climate, Faculty + Senior Researchers, Research

Study: Heavy snowfall and rain may contribute to some earthquakes

May 08, 2024

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

A three shot of Andrew Babbin, Tim Cronin, and Brent Minchew,

Three EAPS faculty granted tenure

May 7, 2024

Categories: Awards + Promotions, Faculty + Senior Researchers

Camilla Cattania named 2024 NSF CAREER recipient

May 3, 2024

Categories: Awards + Promotions, Faculty + Senior Researchers

Andrew Babbin one of four MIT 2024 Bose Grants

April 24, 2024

Categories: Awards + Promotions, Faculty + Senior Researchers

Geologists discover rocks with the oldest evidence yet of Earth’s magnetic field

April 24, 2024

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

Ask MIT Climate: How do we know how much CO2 was in the atmosphere hundreds of years ago?

April 23, 2024

Categories: Climate, Faculty + Senior Researchers, Research

Dan Rothman among four MIT faculty named 2023 AAAS Fellows

April 18, 2024

Categories: Awards + Promotions, Faculty + Senior Researchers

Ask MIT Climate: What are the biggest challenges and innovations for new climate models?

April 11, 2024

Categories: Climate, Faculty + Senior Researchers, Research

Abigail Bodner smiles at the camera.

3 Questions: New faculty interview with Abigail Bodner

April 8, 2024

Categories: Climate, Faculty + Senior Researchers

Two men in hardhats and safety vests, seen from behind, inspect a forest of electrical pylons and wires on a cloudless day.

Atmospheric observations in China show rise in emissions of a potent greenhouse gas

March 28, 2024

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

Burrell Clark Burchfiel

Professor Emeritus B. Clark Burchfiel, structural geologist who expanded the concept of plate tectonics, dies at 89

March 28, 2024

Categories: Community, Faculty + Senior Researchers

In darkness, thumbs hold two small spherical and one small cube objects that light up in vivid yellow, red, and green.

With a new experimental technique, MIT engineers probe the mechanisms of landslides and earthquakes

March 25, 2024

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

Venus in space with multi-colored amino acid molecules in its atmosphere.

Study: Life’s building blocks are surprisingly stable in Venus-like conditions

March 20, 2024

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

Ask MIT Climate: Does global warming affect the coldest days or the hottest days more?

March 15, 2024

Categories: Climate, Faculty + Senior Researchers, Research