Science & Tech

A new Harvard study challenges the accepted notion of mammal spine evolution

Astronomers at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian have detected a moving supermassive black hole.

Harvard researchers have solved a decades-old mystery about how the early Martian atmosphere and climate may have evolved to support periods of warmth and running water on the planet.

Claire Lamman doubles as an astronomy graduate student at Harvard and an expert space baker.

New tool finds and fingerprints previously undetected PFAS compounds in watersheds on Cape Cod.

Researchers prove they can engineer proteins to find new targets with high selectivity, a critical advance toward potential new treatments to help neuroregeneration, cytokine storm.

A team of researchers has developed an artificial intelligence-based method to screen currently available medications as possible treatments for Alzheimer’s disease. The method could represent a rapid and inexpensive way to repurpose existing therapies.

Conversations don’t end when people want them to because few people know how to end them politely, a Harvard study finds.

Examining the environmental impact of computation and the future of green computing.

Harvard’s Center for Integrated Quantum Materials and The Learning Center for the Deaf are working together to develop American Sign Language modules on quantum science topics for undergraduate students with the aim of increasing STEM opportunities for deaf and hard-of-hearing students.

During COVID-19 lockdown, China saw an increase in ozone pollution despite a drop in emissions from transportation and manufacturing sources. The question is, why?

The first national analysis shows patients at hospitals that offer remote stroke consults fare and were more likely to survive than patients who presented at hospitals without stroke telecare.

Harvard researchers develop a new motion-tracking system that delivers an unprecedented look at how animals move and behave naturally.

In an online Harvard Science Book Talk, philanthropist Bill Gates warns of environmental perils ahead and offers a plan to combat them.

Harvard researchers develop in vitro method for probing what colors an insect sees.

Researchers have developed an AI system that can identify the people within a social network who can most effectively promote information about HIV prevention to their peers.

The Star-Friedman Challenge for Scientific Research is ready to provide seed funding for high-risk, high-impact work in the life, physical, and social sciences. Harvard researchers have until March 1 to apply for the funding.

New theory explains origin of comet that killed the dinosaurs

Researchers have identified three distinct mechanisms that promote napping and found that many napping-related genes also regulate other aspects of sleep.

A team of researchers from Nicholas Bellono’s lab has discovered how the trigger system of jellyfish and sea anemones stinging works on a molecular level.

A new study greatly increases estimates of the numbers killed by air pollution.

The new three-layer system opens the door for high-temperature superconductors.

A team led by investigators has now developed an automated method that can identify and track the development of two key abnormal protein deposits that accumulate in the brain during the development of Alzheimer’s disease.

Harvard microbial ecologists take an up-close look at mouth bacteria.

More than one-third of the U.S. population is made up of individuals with recent ancestors from multiple continents. A new genetics tool helps uncover disease-associated gene variants in these individuals.

Waring Trible’s research took him to Southeast Asia to unravel the origin story of the clonal raider ant, an invasive species found in various parts of the world.

Junior Fellow Mireille Kamariza is an award-winning scientist and entrepreneur, who was recognized for inventing a portable, low-cost diagnostic tool to detect tuberculosis.

The Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol over Donald Trump’s election loss stunned the country and forced many to ask what prompts people to political violence.

At the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian mentorship program, two students discovered four new exoplanets about 200-light-years away from Earth.

Several hundred children worldwide live with progeria, a deadly premature aging disease.