Energy Research Project for Alternative Energy, Renewable Energy, and Green Energy Technologies

MIT researchers and colleagues are finding out whether energy from trees can power a network of sensors to prevent spreading forest fires. What they learn also could raise the possibility of using trees as silent sentinels along the nation's borders.

MIT President Susan Hockfield on Wednesday continued her call for the federal government to boost energy research funding, saying the United States needs "a commitment of historic proportions" to power innovation in the field.

The MIT Energy Initiative's second round of seed grants for energy research, announced this week, will go toward a wide array of research topics ranging from power projects for developing countries to computer software that can help to optimize energy use.

New ways of squeezing out greater efficiency from solar photovoltaic cells are emerging from computer simulations and lab tests conducted by a team of physicists and engineers at MIT.

MIT researchers are developing a new kind of autonomous wheelchair that can learn all about the locations in a given building, and then take its occupant to a given place in response to a verbal command.

January 1, 2009 -- In time of stress, I used to eat terribly--chips and sodas for lunch, or sometimes nothing at all. By day's end, I was often exhausted. So last...