How different types of knowledge impact the growth of new firms

Study explores the micromechanisms underlying regional economic diversification.

Helen Knight | MIT Media Lab • mit
Dec. 20, 2018 ~6 min

Technology and policy pathways to Paris emissions goals

Two new MIT reports advance practical emissions-reduction strategies for Southeast Asia and Latin America at both the regional and country level.

Mark Dwortzan | MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change • mit
Dec. 10, 2018 ~9 min


When starting school, younger children are more likely to be diagnosed with ADHD, study says

A Harvard study has found that children born in August in states with a Sept. 1 cutoff birth date for school enrollment have a 30 percent higher risk for ADHD diagnosis than peers born in September, which may reflect overdiagnosis.

Jake Miller • harvard
Nov. 28, 2018 ~7 min

Explaining the plummeting cost of solar power

Researchers uncover the factors that have caused photovoltaic module costs to drop by 99 percent.

David L. Chandler | MIT News Office • mit
Nov. 20, 2018 ~7 min

The many interfaces of computing

A roundup of MIT student research projects offers a glimpse of where computing is going next.

Meg Murphy | School of Engineering • mit
Nov. 11, 2018 ~6 min

Q&A: Climate change, tough tech startups, and the future of energy intelligence

MIT Energy Initiative Director Robert Armstrong offers his perspective on the takeaways from MITEI’s annual research conference.

Francesca McCaffrey | MIT Energy Initiative • mit
Oct. 25, 2018 ~10 min

The city is her lab | MIT News

Siqi Zheng studies the economics of China’s urban explosion.

Peter Dizikes | MIT News Office • mit
July 3, 2018 ~7 min

Building the green | MIT News

Ken Wang ’71, MIT Corporation member and former MIT Alumni Association president, developed one of America’s premier modern golf courses.

Jay London | MIT Alumni Association • mit
June 29, 2018 ~3 min


The value of late-in-life health care spending | MIT News

Study debunks notion that large chunks of Medicare go to futile end-of-life care.

Peter Dizikes | MIT News Office • mit
June 28, 2018 ~6 min

Method man | MIT News

Alberto Abadie refines the tools of economics — and gets some interesting results along the way.

Peter Dizikes | MIT News Office • mit
June 18, 2018 ~6 min

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