Science & Tech

Clara Sousa-Silva, whose expertise in phosphine as a biosignature gas was key to a recent analysis that may have detected life in the clouds of Venus, has moved to the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian for the final two years of her fellowship. She discusses the finding and the broader topic of the search for life on other planets.

New answers have emerged from the largest genome-wide study to date of ancient human DNA in the Americas.

Six months after reopening, Harvard’s labs report an unblemished safety record, important contributions to the state’s economy, and an array of scientific findings, albeit with the requisite frustration of operating during a pandemic.

Harvard researcher finds first saber-toothed animals had dinosaur-like teeth before dinosaurs did.

Seasonal changes in UV may alter the spread of COVID but not as much as social distancing.

Urs Gasser and John Palfrey are authors of the newly released book “The Connected Parent: An Expert Guide to Parenting in a Digital World.”

A Harvard Medical School study in mice reveals how memory neurons reorganize after new experiences.

‘Climate Conversations’ series engages researchers, leaders, practitioners, and organizers to seek paths to collaboration, solutions.

Harvard’s AI+Art project aims to get people thinking about how artificial intelligence may impact our lives in the future.

Scientists applied the “Perturb-Seq” method to study dozens of genes that are associated with autism spectrum disorder, identifying how specific cell types in the developing mouse brain are impacted by mutations.

OEB 119 students are patched in via livestream and a satellite call to a team of researchers leading an exploration on the seafloor.

Harvard scientists reconstruct evolution of limb-based motion in early tetrapods.

For the first time in mice, researchers have coated nanoparticles with an ionic liquid that allows the nanoparticles to survive the immune system and deliver drugs to their targeted spot.

Ice sheets thousands of kilometers apart influence each other through sea level changes.

The Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies and Center for Geographic Analysis worked with Microsoft to create a live tracker that monitors the status of COVID cases, broken down by congressional district, to help officials develop testing and vaccine deployment strategies in their areas.

A team of researchers analyzed and compared the genomes of more than 80 percent of all mammalian families, which captures mammalian diversity at an unprecedented scale.

Researchers discover gene controlling nectar spur development, opening door for insights into evolution.

The main goal of Cora Dvorkin’s lab is trying to understand the nature of one of the universe’s most important and puzzling features: dark matter.

Harvard researchers uncover novel family of sensors in octopuses.

LabXchange, a free digital-learning platform for science education, allows students, educators, scientists, and researchers to collaborate globally in an online community.

Understanding why older chimps tend to favor small circles of meaningful, established friendships rather than seek new ones may help scientists gain a better picture of what healthy human aging should look like and what triggers this social change.

Controlling a DNA-synthesizing enzyme with photolithographic methods from the computer chip industry facilitates multiplexed writing and storage of digital data in DNA.

Researchers at Harvard’s Music Lab have determined that American infants relaxed when played lullabies that were unfamiliar and in a foreign language.

Faculty from the Computer Science and Philosophy departments join forces in a successful new undergraduate initiative, Embedded EthiCS, to change the way computer scientists think about the ethical implications of new technology.

A new Harvard course challenges students to use science to evaluate COVID-19 policies.

Computational algorithms enable identification and optimization of RNA-based tools for myriad applications.

A new study by a team of Harvard-led researchers contradicts a widely held theory that major transitions in evolution always happened in big, quick (geologically speaking) bursts, triggered by major environmental shifts.

A new study of ice-core data shows that an unusual, six-year period of cold temperatures and heavy rainfall coincided with European deaths during the 1918 Spanish flu.

Harvard researchers use a 3D model to figure out how a hexagon-shaped mega-storm on Saturn was formed.

Researchers have discovered a key control mechanism that cells use to self-organize in early embryonic development.