The Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI): An effort to make natural resources benefit all

During the EITI Global Conference in Paris March 2011, the current EITI Board was formed consisting of 20 members representing implementing countries, supporting countries, civil society organisations, and industry and investment companies     more...

The Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI): Global standard for transparency in oil, gas and mining

An effort to make natural resources benefit all. 3.5 billion people live in countries rich in oil, gas and minerals. With good governance the exploitation of these resources can generate large revenues to foster growth and reduce poverty     more...

Applied Science Factor at MIT: A step toward fusion power

The long-sought goal of a practical fusion-power reactor has inched closer to reality with new experiments from MIT’s experimental Alcator C-Mod reactor, the highest-performance university-based fusion device in the world     more...

MIT is a very free and open place: celebrating 150 years of maverick genius

What makes the MIT University such a fertile ground for brilliant ideas? For the past 150 years, MIT has been leading us into the future. The discoveries of its teachers and students have become the warp and weft of modernity     more...

Applied Science Factor at MIT: fluids of different viscosity to create “viscous fingers”

Mixing fluids in small spaces is a big problem in many industries where introducing one fluid can help extract another, such as pumping water underground to release oil trapped in porous rock     more...

Applied Science Factor at MIT: Pioneering nuclear magnetic resonance work of John Waugh

Much of the research in Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases, diabetes, and many other disorders would not be possible without the pioneering nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) work of John Waugh, MIT Institute Professor Emeritus.     more...

Applied Science Factor at MIT: Research groups to develop more efficient solar cells and solid state lighting

The aim of these working groups is to understand and control coherence in excitonic antennas and exciton polaritons – coherent combinations of excitons and photons     more...

Applied Science Factor: Answer to Grand Challenges for Science and the Imagination. Part 2

How do remarkable properties of matter emerge from complex correlations of the atomic or electronic constituents and how can we control these properties?     more...

Applied Science Factor: Answer to Grand Challenges for Science and the Imagination. Part 1

The Basic Energy Sciences Advisory Committee (BESAC) report, Directing Matter and Energy: Five Challenges for Science and the Imagination was the culmination of a series of BES-sponsored workshops that began in 2001     more...

Applied Science Factor at MIT: New fiber-based electronic and photonic devices

Researchers at MIT have succeeded in making a fine thread that functions as a diode, a device at the heart of modern electronic and photonic devices within composite fibers, using a variety of materials.     more...