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Scientists issue warning over new findings about Antarctica's ice sheet

Professor Hélène Seroussi is featured in an article about her study that integrates data from 16 ice-sheet models to forecast the future of Antarctica's glaciers. "The exact timing of such collapses remains unknown and depends on future greenhouse gas emissions, so we need to respond quickly enough to reduce emissions before the major basins in Antarctica are lost," Seroussi said.

Oct 11, 2024

Eos

Heat Moves More Freely Through Warmer Sea Ice Than Scientists Thought

Professor Don Perovich is featured in an article about how sea ice can transport heat between the ocean and the atmosphere. "We can think of the thermal conductivity of the ice almost like being the gas pedal" for temperature changes, Perovich said.

Oct 01, 2024

The Scientist Magazine

Viral Activation Can Shape Breast Milk Composition

Professor Britt Goods Th'11 is featured in an article about how the composition of breast milk changes with a CMV infection. "This study is a really good example of where the field is moving, as something that helps us determine what questions we should be asking next," Goods said.

Sep 19, 2024

MIT IDE

How GenAI Could Boost Product Development

Professor Geoffrey Parker co-authored this opinion piece that proposes a four-stage framework using GenAI to improve the process over today’s human-intensive practices.

Sep 17, 2024

Earth.com

When will the Antarctic ice sheet collapse?

Professor Hélène Seroussi is quoted as the lead author of a study using collaborative modeling to better forecast the complex future of the Antarctic ice sheet. "The results show that beyond 2100, the long-term impact for the regions most susceptible to sea-level rise become amplified," she says.

Sep 15, 2024

Innovation News Network

Antarctic ice melt to cause catastrophic sea-level rise by 2300, study warns

Professor Hélène Seroussi is featured as lead author on a major study involving over 50 climate scientists. "When you talk to policymakers, they mostly focus on what will happen up to 2100," Seroussi said. "Our study provides longer-term projections that have been lacking."

Sep 13, 2024

MIT IDE

What's the Future of Platform Ecosystems? Look Back for Trends

Professor Geoff Parker is quoted in an article about a new curation project that tracks four stages of platform growth over the past two decades. "Ecosystems and platforms were clearly getting more important," Parker said, "so [researchers] began to ask… 'What's under the hood?'"

Sep 12, 2024

The New York Times

Biden Awards $150 Million in Research Grants as Part of Cancer 'Moonshot'

"The awards are to be made through the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health, or ARPA-H, which is aimed at driving biomedical innovation ... award recipients were Dartmouth; Johns Hopkins University; Rice University; the University of California, San Francisco; the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; the University of Washington; and Cision Vision in Mountain View, Calif," reports the NYTimes.

Aug 14, 2024