Professor Steven Barrett, an expert in the environmental impacts of aviation, has been named head of MIT's Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics.
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A Penn State researcher says already existing fiber optic cables under University Park’s campus could help detect sinkholes before they happen, like the one last week in Eisenhower Parking Deck.
Reducing methane emissions is considered a strong lever for achieving rapid progress in slowing global warming. That is because methane, unlike carbon dioxide, has a relatively short average atmospheric lifetime of around 12 years. In urban areas, me
In urban areas, methane sources, an important contributor to global warming, are often unknown or underestimated. A team of researchers has undertaken a search for gas leaks and other sources of escaping methane in Hamburg.