Climate Change
为什么我们要把全球变暖控制在1.5℃以内？
《巴黎协定》设定的目标是将全球升温控制在不超过工业化前2℃以内，最好是1.5℃；1.5℃被认为是一个临界阈值，因为超过这一界限，气候变化的影响预计会变得越来越严重；如果我们继续以目前的速度排放温室气体，到本世纪末，全球将升温2.7℃。
Jennifer Chu covers mechanical engineering, mathematics, physics, aeronautics, astronautics, and earth, atmospheric, and planetary sciences as a writer for the MIT News Office.
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Climate Change
The 1.5C climate threshold: What it means and why it matters
The Paris Agreement aims to avoid climate change and limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius. Meeting this target will require major efforts.
Water
This material makes drinking water in the desert - here's how
MIT engineers developed a salty gel that can absorb water vapour from very dry air and could be used to generate drinking water in arid regions.
Health and Healthcare
This soft, implantable ventilator could help the chronically ill
MIT engineers have developed a design for an implantable ventilator that aims to improve lung capacity in people with diaphragm dysfunction.
Climate Change
Wind energy is healthier for us, here's why
The health benefits of wind power could quadruple if operators turn down output from the most polluting fossil-fuel-based power plants, an MIT study finds.
Ocean
Ocean eddies play a key role in replenishing ocean nutrients. Here's how
Small ocean eddies move important nutrients around oceans and help keep marine life healthy. This could also help sustain carbon storage in subtropical oceans.
Data Science
These ultrasound stickers can see inside the body
MIT engineers have designed a stamp-sized device that sticks to skin and provides continuous ultrasound imaging of internal organs for up to 48 hours.
Quantum Computing
Physicists discover a new 'qubit'
The new qubits, discovered by MIT physicists, stay in 'superposition' for up to 10 seconds and could make a promising foundation for quantum computers.
Ocean
Scientists have built a new map of the ocean’s oxygen-starved waters. Here's why it matters
Scientists have created a three-dimensional atlas of the oxygen-deficient zones in the world's oceans to better understand how they change over time.
Future of the Environment
Climate modeling confirms historical records showing rise in hurricane activity
New results show North Atlantic hurricanes have increased in frequency over the last 150 years, judging from historical records dating back to the 1850s.
Space
One year on this giant, blistering hot planet is just 16 hours long
'Hot Jupiter's' are massive balls of gas that travel around their stars in less than 10 days, with the most recent traveling around its star in just 16 hours.
SDG 03: Good Health and Well-Being
新研究表明：缺乏睡眠会影响步行状态
有大量证据表明，我们睡眠的时长会影响我们在解决数学问题、进行对话甚至阅读本文等认知任务上的表现。较少探讨的是睡眠不足是否会影响我们走路或进行其他被认为是精神负担较小的活动方式。
SDG 03: Good Health and Well-Being
Sleep deprivation affects your walk, new study finds
A new MIT study reports that sleep deprivation affects your walk. How well we can control our stride can be affected by lack of sleep.
Global Health
Breakthrough research into human tissue could help diagnose potential cancer
Researchers at MIT have discovered how a tissue’s cells are arranged can serve as a fingerprint for the tissue’s 'phase', which could diagnose potential cancers.
Science
Scientists have made some surprising new discoveries about how dinosaurs lived millions of years ago
Dinosaurs may have lived in social herds as early as 193 million years ago, according to a scientific discovery made in southern Patagonia.