Capturing lithium + biodegradable plastic + urban farming

By rahmat hidayat

Jumat, 14 November 2025

view in browser MIT Daily November 14, 2025 Greetings! Here’s the latest from the MIT community.   Have feedback to share? Email mitdailyeditor@mit.edu. Capturing Lithium “We’re developing a unique technology that could make the U.S. the center of the world for critical minerals separation, and we couldn’t have done this anywhere else,” says Lithios co-founder and MIT Professor Martin Bazant. “MIT was the perfect environment.”  Full story via MIT News → Top Headlines MIT senior turns waste from the fishing industry into biodegradable plastic Jacqueline Prawira’s innovation, featured on CBS’s “The Visioneers,” tackles one of the world’s most pressing environmental challenges. Full story via MIT News → How drones are altering contemporary warfare A new book by scholar and military officer Erik Lin-Greenberg examines the evolving dynamics of military and state action centered around drones. Full story via MIT News → Returning farming to city centers 4.182 (Resilient Urbanism: Green Commons in the City), a new subject funded by the MIT Human Insight Collaborative (MITHIC), teaches students about sustainable agriculture in urban areas. Full story via MIT News → #ThisisMIT Instagram post via @flocollegesoccer→ In the Media Is a deadly asteroid about to hit Earth? Meet the man who can tell you // New Scientist Professor Richard Binzel discusses his work inventing the Near-Earth Object Hazard Index (later renamed the Torino Scale), asteroid hunting, and the future of planetary defense. “Speaking very personally, as a scientist who’s been in the field for 50 years, who has largely been supported by public funds, I feel a moral responsibility to push forward the idea that, because we now have the capability to find any serious asteroid threat, we have a moral obligation to do it,” says Binzel of his work. “Otherwise, we are not doing our job as scientists.” Full story via New Scientist→ Arts on Display The Gaia hypothesis is a concept proposing that our planet is a type of super-organism that is self-regulating and, in conjunction with living and inorganic surroundings on Earth, serves to sustain and promote life. For Yitong Tseo, a PhD student in the MIT Computational and Systems Biology program, our existence in relation to Gaia is central to his practice as a scientist and artist. The exhibition “Connecting Gaia,” now on display at the MIT Wiesner Student Art Gallery through Dec. 1, showcases Tseo’s expressions of entangled natural systems, including a techno-futurist foundation, animate bioreactors, and the chemical compositions of giant clam shells. Full story via Arts at MIT→ This edition of the MIT Daily was brought to you by metals and plastic and wood — oh, my! 🪵 Thanks for reading, and enjoy your weekend! —MIT News Forward This Email Subscribe This email was sent to rh3252705.pese@blogger.com because of your affiliation with MIT, or because you signed up for our newsletters. subscribe update preferences unsubscribe view in browser MIT News Office · 77 Massachusetts Avenue · Cambridge, MA 02139 · USA

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