MIT projects selected for funding under US Department of Energy’s Genesis Mission

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Carbon Neutral Regulation in AI Training

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MIT researchers are set to contribute to the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Genesis Mission, with 15 collaborative projects among those selected for funding under Genesis Phase I, DOE announced Wednesday. The Genesis Mission, a national initiative, intends to build “the world’s most powerful integrated science discovery platform” by incentivizing cross-sector collaborations that leverage AI, supercomputing, quantum […]

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Improving injury rates are masking the continued threat of fatal accidents across the offshore marine contracting industry, according to the International Marine Contractors Association (IMCA) after its latest Annual Safety Statistics Report revealed fatalities more than doubled despite overall safety performance improving. The report, said to be based on one of the largest safety datasets […]

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Second-hand sofas at a furniture reuse centre (image credit: The James Hutton Institute). A new study appears to confirm the unseen benefits of furniture reuse, and that these go beyond simply helping the environment. The work was carried out by Scottish interdisciplinary research institute The James Hutton Institute, and DePaul University in Chicago. Dr Alice […]

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More than a year after Simpler Recycling rules first came into force,1 murmurings from the waste sector suggest many organisations are still grappling with implementation. This article shares recent reports and findings along these lines, and looks at what’s coming, so that firms can better prepare for changes in the way recyclable materials are collected […]

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Dimitri Bertsekas PhD ’71, the Jerry McAfee (1940) Emeritus Professor in Engineering in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), a principal investigator in the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS), and the Fulton Professor of Computational Decision Making at Arizona State University, died on June 3 at his home in Belmont, […]
On July 3, the Office of Management and Budget released the Trump Administration’s Unified Agenda for 2026. The document, typically released once or twice a year, compiles all regulatory actions that an administration plans to take during the covered period. Consistent with President Trump’s aim of downsizing government, a large portion of the proposed rules […]

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Illustrative image of a plasma discharge. Plasma-based techniques can provide the energy needed to break the exceptionally strong carbon-fluorine bonds found in PFAS compounds. Researchers in Germany have developed what appears to be a new approach to destroying persistent PFAS ‘forever chemicals’ in contaminated water, using two complementary treatment techniques based on cold atmospheric plasma […]

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The roadmap highlights advances in rail, including superconducting traction transformers and power cables that could improve energy efficiency. Superconducting technologies have the potential to supercharge the decarbonisation of transport, saving gigatonnes of emissions in the future, a new paper suggests. The ‘roadmap’ paper examines how the transport industry, which creates around a quarter of energy-related […]

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Image credit: Richard OD / Shutterstock One of Britain’s largest discount retailers has been fined £2 million after admitting serious food hygiene offences linked to widespread mouse infestations at three Birmingham stores, in a prosecution likely to renew attention on the need for rigorous pest control and food safety management across large retail estates. B&M […]


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AI’s expanding electricity needs could encourage greater deployment of energy storage and flexible grid infrastructure, argue researchers. AI’s unprecedented demand for power is turning big tech companies into builders of their own energy infrastructure – and under the right policies and market rules, data centre investment could help accelerate innovation and deployment of clean energy […]

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Trade body says housing target, AI data centre expansion and wider economic growth all risk being constrained by outdated assumptions over future water demand England’s water planning framework is failing to keep pace with the Government’s ambitions for housing, artificial intelligence and economic growth, according to Water UK, which is calling for urgent reforms to […]

Last month, three Members of Congress introduced a bill to provide $125 million ($25 per year for five years) in funding for research into methane removal, a relatively novel set of proposed approaches aimed at mitigating climate change. This marks the first time such a bill has been introduced into Congress, and, if passed, it […]

The European Commission has put forward new plans to cut emissions under the EU carbon market more slowly, from 2031 onwards. On 17 July, the commission presented its long-awaited proposal for reform of the EU’s Emissions Trading System (ETS). It recommended a number of changes, including giving companies free allowances to cover their emissions for […]
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Ever since she was a child playing on her family’s farmland in Wisconsin, Bailey Flanigan was guided by her own selective, yet wide-ranging, curiosity. Describing her young self as spirited and a bit unruly, she directed her energies to everything from building booby traps to doing experimental construction projects to exploring an intense interest in […]

Welcome to Carbon Brief’s DeBriefed. An essential guide to the week’s key developments relating to climate change. This week Heat and firewaves ‘FIREWAVE’: Wildfires ravaged Europe and North America this week. France utilised water-dumping planes collecting from the Seine to contain a fire in the Fontainebleau forest near Paris, according to the Associated Press. The Financial […]