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View from the top of a measurement tower, where researchers monitor critical forest canopy processes such as photosynthesis, plant water fluxes, leaf characteristics, and growth.

North America was almost entirely above its long-term average in mass in May 2019, due to Midwestern flooding, with the runoff raising the Great Lakes to record levels.

A battery-free underwater “piezoelectric” sensor invented by MIT researchers transmits data by absorbing or reflecting sound waves back to a receiver, where a reflected wave decodes a 1 bit and an absorbed wave decodes a 0 bit — and simultaneously stores energy.

This artist's illustration depicts the exoplanet LHS 3844b, which is 1.3 times the mass of Earth and orbits an M dwarf star. The planet's surface may be covered mostly in dark lava rock, with no apparent atmosphere, according to observations by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope.

Artist’s rendering of the surface of LHS 3844b, a planet that has been found to have no atmosphere.

A new experiment designed by MIT physicists may help to pin down the rate at which huge, massive stars produce oxygen in the universe.

SOAR telescope (left) and Gemini Observatory (right) The 4.1-meter SOAR telescope at Cerro Pachón in Chile, is the pathfinder facility for AEON and successfully completed its first observing night for the network.

An artist’s impression of a collision between young Jupiter and a massive planetary embryo.

Aerial view of white roofed homes and streets forming circular patterns; St. Petersburg, Florida, USA