Science & Tech

In 1934, physicist Eugene Wigner made a theoretical prediction that suggested how a metal that normally conducts electricity could turn into a nonconducting insulator when the density of electrons is reduced. Now a team of Harvard physicists has finally experimentally documented this transition.

A team of researchers from the Wyss Institute has found a way to embed synthetic biology reactions into fabrics, creating wearable biosensors that can be customized to detect pathogens and toxins and alert the wearer.

Scientists at Harvard and the Broad Institute have demonstrated that it is possible to treat sickle cell disease in mice using a new gene-editing technique.

Public Interest Technology Lab brings together experts from across Harvard to pursue technologies that serve the interests of the public.

Study on the classic Russian farm-fox experiment raises questions about leading theories on the brains of domesticated animals.

Scientists from Harvard’s Wyss Institute and John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) created flexible, metal-free electrode arrays that conform to the body’s shapes.

A panel of experts discuss the award-winning documentary “My Octopus Teacher” and the inner life of the octopus.

Professor Kang-Kuen Ni and her team have collected real experimental data from an unexplored quantum frontier, providing strong evidence of what the theoretical model got right (and wrong) and a roadmap for further exploration into the shadowy next layers of quantum space.

Nearly 40 years after creating the first, iconic map of the universe, researchers aim for the largest map ever.

Jim Waldo assesses how the internet fared during the pandemic and how well it stood up to huge shifts of work, education, and commerce online.

Researchers identify links between genetic makeup of bacteria in human gut and several human diseases.

Harvard researchers identify a mechanism with therapeutic potential for anemia.

Harvard researchers have designed a stable, lithium-metal, solid-state battery that is far more efficient than lithium-ion batteries.

Rising fears over declining human sperm count among men in Western countries may be overblown, according to researchers at Harvard’s GenderSci Lab.

Findings on Neanderthal oral microbiomes offer new clues on evolution, health.

Researchers have identified a protein signature that may help answer the question, “Why do some patients die from COVID-19, while others — who appear to be just as ill — survive?”

A Wyss Institute-led collaboration has used the institute’s organ-on-a-chip technology to identify the antimalarial drug amodiaquine as a potent inhibitor of infection with SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.

A new study suggests Earth’s primordial ocean 3 to 4 billion years ago may have been much larger than it is today, and possibly covered the entire planet.

The sea level in a warming world will be greater than anticipated, according to a new study from Harvard researchers.

Today, the University launched one of the world’s first Ph.D. programs in the subject of quantum science and engineering.

Researchers at Harvard have designed new, highly selective tools that can add or remove sugars from a protein with no off-target effects, to examine exactly what the sugars are doing and engineer them into new treatments for “undruggable” proteins.

Odontoblasts have a newly discovered function: sensing cold, which can trigger pain in teeth. But scientists have also found a way to block the pathway to cold-sensitive teeth.

Men and women whose mothers experienced stressful events during pregnancy regulate stress differently in the brain 45 years later, results of a long-term study demonstrate.

Insights at the intersection of the nervous, immune systems point to the culprit.

A Harvard study has confirmed that stress can lead to hair loss.

If the causes and problems of climate change are entwined, then the solutions must be as well, according to an online panel of Harvard faculty.

Images released by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration reveal how the black hole, some 55 million light-years away, appears in polarized light.

A concept for seeded all-or-nothing assembly of micron-scale DNA nanostructures that could extend nanofabrication capabilities and enable creation of highly specific diagnostics.

Scientists study ancient human teeth to learn about their surprising diet.

New system uses the sun and impure water to make renewable energy.