Science & Tech

Using a controlled massage system, researchers found that treatment led to greater repair and strength recovery in mice.

Harvard-led research signals life-saving potential for artificial intelligence in fight against colon cancer.

Harvard team discovers neural circuits underlying aggressive behavior of adult mice toward young ones.

Research by new Harvard Ph.D. finds warping of planet’s crust, with far-reaching effects.

The hormone testosterone provides a backdrop for male aggression and violence, both in nature and in society, argues a Harvard human evolutionary biologist.

Recently NASA updated its forecast of the chances that the asteroid Bennu will hit Earth in the next 300 years. Harvard statisticians put it into perspective.

The fossil was found to belong to a previously unknown species of a lizard-like reptile, representing the earliest evolving member of a lineage that today includes all lizards, snakes, and their closest relatives.

Peter Huybers, a professor of Earth and planetary sciences, explains the recently released UN report on climate change and the harrowing details contained within it.

Dan Barouch, Harvard Medical School professor and head of Beth Israel Deaconess’ Center for Virology and Vaccine Research, was awarded Harvard’s George Ledlie Prize for work that culminated in one of three vaccines against COVID-19 approved for use in the U.S.

A study by Harvard researchers demonstrates that jumping spiders can distinguish living from nonliving objects based on their movement.

After a yearlong delay, the landmark Harvard IBM Mark I Automatic Calculator shifts residences to its new Science and Engineering Complex in Allston.

What is a fire tornado? Harvard’s Loretta Mickley sheds some light.

A Harvard study could lead to potential therapeutics for one of the most prominent ailments of the elderly and one of the most prominent musculoskeletal defects in newborns.

Dushan N. Wadduwage has detailed a new technique that would create high-quality, deep-tissue imaging of living subjects in a timely fashion.

A Harvard-led team has created a 256-qubit programmable quantum simulator that represents the cutting edge in the world-wide quantum race.

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.