Surprisingly diverse innovations led to dramatically cheaper solar panels
New research can identify opportunities to drive down the cost of renewable energy systems, batteries, and many other technologies.
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Jessika Trancik named director of SSRC
Trancik will lead multidisciplinary research center focused on the high-impact, complex, sociotechnical systems that shape our world.
3 Questions: Community policing in the Global South
(Pictured is a police officer and commuters in downtown San Andres Island, Colombia, March 2017. Image: iStock) International research co-led...
Characterizing social networks
(Image: Adobe Stock) MIT researchers developed a new measure to understand whether homophily occurred in group interactions. Their work can...
Growing Our Organ Supply
SES student Hammaad Adam’s novel data set ‘ORCHID’ can help increase the supply of organs for transplants, saving lives and...
IDSS Faculty Awarded Seed Grants to Study the Impact & Application of Generative AI
(Photo: Adam Glanzman) Last summer, MIT President Sally Kornbluth and Provost Cynthia Barnhart issued a call for papers to “articulate...
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