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Science & Tech
Carbon counter
Atmospheric scientists at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) and Nanjing University have produced the first “bottom-up” estimates of China’s carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, for 2005 to 2009, and the first statistically rigorous estimates of the uncertainties surrounding China’s CO2 emissions.
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Campus & Community
Harvard grad students named NAE fellows
The National Academy of Education named four Harvard graduate students 2012 Spencer Dissertation Fellows.
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Health
The positives of playing favorites
As described in a paper in Scientific Reports, a study led by Feng Fu, a postdoctoral researcher at Harvard’s Program for Evolutionary Dynamics, found that in-group favoritism — the tendency of people to help other members of the same group — is critical in establishing high-level cooperation that ultimately benefits the whole.
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Health
Clot-busting technology goes straight to work
Researchers at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard have developed a novel biomimetic strategy that delivers life-saving nanotherapeutics directly to obstructed blood vessels, dissolving blood clots before they cause serious damage or even death.
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Health
When skin cancer cells resist drug treatment
Harvard researchers have found that although tailored drugs can eradicate melanoma cells in the lab, they often produce only partial, temporary responses in patients. Researchers have now learned that normal cells that reside within the tumor, part of the tumor microenvironment, may supply factors that help cancer cells grow and survive despite the presence of…
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Arts & Culture
Harvard in the War of 1812
The War of 1812 touched Harvard only lightly, a new exhibit shows, but the end of the conflict was much welcomed in Anglophile New England.
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Science & Tech
Quantum computing, no cooling required
Using a pair of impurities in ultra-pure, laboratory-grown diamonds, researchers have created room-temperature quantum bits and have stored information in them for nearly two seconds — an increase of nearly six orders of magnitude over the life span of earlier systems. The work, described in the June 8 issue of Science, is a critical first…
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Science & Tech
Images from long ago or far away
A new exhibition at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology traces the development of photography and its use in anthropology from the beginnings of both fields in the 1800s to the present.
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Nation & World
Empowering a growing minority
Now in its third year, the Latino Leadership Initiative brought 41 students from eight universities to Harvard for a week of leadership training, reflection, and strategizing on projects they will implement when they return to their largely Latino communities.
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Science & Tech
Fuel cell keeps going after hydrogen runs out
Materials scientists at Harvard have demonstrated that a solid-oxide fuel cell (SOFC), which converts hydrogen into electricity, can also store electrochemical energy like a battery. This fuel cell can continue to produce power for a short time after its fuel has run out.
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Campus & Community
Suzanne Vogel, researcher of Japanese culture, 81
Suzanne Hall Vogel, a psychotherapist at Harvard University Health Services for 27 years, died on June 19.
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Campus & Community
‘Spider-Man,’ the scavenger hunt
The Harvard Museum of Natural History has launched a summer-long program called Spider Sense! Scavenger Hunt, designed to entertain fans of the comics character and natural science alike.
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Nation & World
Balky states likely to join Medicaid expansion
Experts speaking at The Forum at Harvard School of Public Health discussed the health care reform law Friday, a day after the U.S. Supreme Court upheld most of its core but struck down drastic penalties for states that don’t participate in a major expansion of Medicaid.
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Campus & Community
Obaid joins Belfer Center as visiting fellow
Nawaf Obaid joins Belfer Center as visiting fellow
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Health
Worry over drug-resistant TB
A symposium at the Broad Institute calls for mobilization to battle drug-resistant tuberculosis.
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Campus & Community
Harvard crew stays perfect on second day at Henley Royal Regatta
Harvard and Radcliffe will send five crews to the third day of the Henley Royal Regatta after three boats won for the second straight day and the Radcliffe heavyweight varsity eight opened with a victory June 28 on the Thames River.
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Nation & World
Battle won, but more to come
Harvard School of Public Health analysts probe the importance of the Supreme Court ruling upholding national health care, and explain the law’s next challenge: the November election
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Health
Win for Obama, but no let-up in debate
The U.S. Supreme Court decision on Thursday upholding the basis of national health care reform is far from the last word on the topic, Harvard faculty members said, and merely raises the curtain on act two: November’s general election.
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Campus & Community
Add tai chi to reduce stress
Students are gathering in Harvard Yard on Tuesdays this summer to take free martial arts lessons, as part of the University’s campaign to encourage use of common spaces.
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Arts & Culture
Edward Lear’s natural history
Edward Lear, a master of nonsense verse and travel writing, was at a young age one of the most accomplished natural history painters of his time.
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Health
When a calorie is not just a calorie
A new study by Harvard researchers and published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) challenges the notion that “a calorie is a calorie.”
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Health
Heart attack worsens atherosclerosis
Researchers at Harvard Medical School and Harvard-affiliated Massachusetts General Hospital have found that the body’s immune response to heart attacks actually worsens atherosclerosis, increasing future heart attack risk, according to a study published in the journal Nature.
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Nation & World
Death penalty in decline
A Harvard Law School panel looks at the future of the death penalty worldwide and sees a decline in this “organized violence” by nation-states — but a few “dark spots” too.
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Health
Life partner
Researchers in the Harvard lab of Bauer Fellow Peter Turnbaugh are seeking to understand how the microbes that live in our intestines affect the drugs we take and the food we eat.
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Science & Tech
Planet probe
In a paper published in the June 7 issue of Nature, Associate Professor Sujoy Mukhopadhyay presents evidence that the Earth’s deep mantle incorporated gas found in the solar nebula in the first few millions of years of the solar system’s formation.
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Health
The growing brain
As reported on June 7 in the journal Neuron, a team of researchers led by Professor Jeff Lichtman has found that just days before birth mice undergo an explosion of neuromuscular branching. At birth, the research showed, some muscle fibers are contacted by as many as 10 nerve cells. Within days, however, all but one…
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Nation & World
Royal views
Crown Prince Felipe of Spain covered a range of topics — working his way from the 15th century to the euro crisis — in a talk at Harvard Kennedy School.
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Nation & World
The rigor of reargument
Over many months, a Harvard Law School team put in long hours to craft a legal brief, hoping to sway a Supreme Court decision that will affect the fate of lawsuits regarding international human rights.
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Science & Tech
Desert mystery
In a talk at Harvard’s Semitic Museum, archaeologist Robert Mason described the discovery of mysterious rock formations near an ancient monastery in Syria.
