Tag: David Weitz

  • Nation & World

    What Harold McGee learned after decade of sniffing durian, keyboards, outer space

    Science author Harold McGee explores all things olfactory in “Nose Dive: A Field Guide to the World’s Smells.”

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    Close-up of nose and mouth.
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    Investing in a sustainable future

    Harvard awards $1 million in grants to projects that aim to accelerate progress toward a healthier, more sustainable world.

    8 minutes
    People walking in the forest.
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    Cooking up a TV career

    Nick DiGiovanni competes on “MasterChef” — while earning his undergraduate degree in food and climate at Harvard at the same time.

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    Contestants cooking on Masterchef
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    Advancing ingenuity

    Between academic discovery and product development lurks a lull in research funding that inventors call the “chasm of death,” where a prototype or a proof of concept can feel just…

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    Experiments in learning

    Researchers gave Boston students some lessons in scientific method during an event at the Hennigan Elementary School in Jamaica Plain.

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    Sinking ice and hovering foams

    The annual Science & Cooking Fair shows off students’ final projects from the undergraduate General Education course “Science & Cooking: From Haute Cuisine to the Science of Soft Matter.”

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    375th party under the umbrellas

    Harvard writers and photographers ventured to all corners of the campus and captured the University’s 375th anniversary celebration.

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    Brenner awarded Ledlie Prize

    Michael Brenner, Glover Professor of Applied Mathematics and Applied Physics at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, has been awarded the George Ledlie Prize by the President and Fellows of Harvard College.

    4 minutes
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    Cells flow like glass, study finds

    Harvard-led research has found that migrating tissue flows very much like colloidal glass. The research advances scientists’ understanding of wound healing, cancer metastasis, and embryonic development.

    4 minutes
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    Guiding discoveries to the public

    Harvard’s Office of Technology Development tries to ensure that the public sees the benefits of Harvard’s research by licensing new technology to companies.

    4 minutes
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    Innovate, create

    From oddities like breathable chocolate to history-making devices with profound societal effects, like the heart pacemaker, Harvard’s combination of questing minds, restless spirits, and intellectual seekers fosters creativity and innovation that’s finding an outlet in new inventions and companies.

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    It’s the ‘lab-on-a-chip’ model

    With little more than a conventional photocopier and transparency film, anyone can build a functional microfluidic chip.

    5 minutes
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    At last, the edible science fair

    Final projects were displayed Dec. 7 for the “Science and Cooking: From Haute Cuisine to the Science of Soft Matter” science fair. Illustrating the tenacious bond between science and cooking, students used physics, chemistry, and biology to manipulate recipes and create foods that stretch the imagination.

    4 minutes
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    The Postdocs

    Some physicists spend their lives obsessed with questions about the possibility of parallel universes, or of travel at the speed of light. Amy Rowat is obsessed with the mechanical properties of the tiny…

    6 minutes
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    Marrying high performance optics with microfluidics

    Harvard engineers have successfully created a silicone rubber stick-on sheet containing dozens of miniature, powerful lenses, bring them one step closer to putting the capacity of a large laboratory into…

    4 minutes
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    New wrinkle in old approach

    Harvard materials scientists have come up with what they believe is a new way to model the formation of glasses, a type of amorphous solid that includes common window glass.

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    Materials scientists find better model for glass creation

    Harvard materials scientists have come up with what they believe is a new way to model the formation of glasses, a type of amorphous solid that includes common window glass.…

    3 minutes
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    Drops in drops hold practical promise

    A team of Harvard researchers has developed a technique that allows the precise formation of double emulsions – droplets within droplets – that offers new ways to deliver drugs, nutrients,…

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    Students develop system to fight TB

    A new system developed by Harvard undergraduates delivers anti-tuberculosis drugs through an inhaler, increasing the likelihood that patients will take them over longer periods, and reducing the side effects of…

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