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Assistant Professor Marine Denolle is the co-author of a new study that uses computer-learning algorithms to detect tiny earthquakes hidden in seismic "noise," like human activity, that could be used for real-time detection and early warnings.

Learning to find 'quiet' earthquakes

Researchers create algorithm that can separate small disturbances from seismic noise

DateMarch 14, 2018March 29, 2018

Arnold Arboretum scientists Becky Povilus (left) and Ned Friedman have pinpointed how mother plants of an extinct species of water lily take control of rearing offspring, which Povilus compared to "locking Dad out of the kitchen."

In plant tug-of-war, mom wins

Studies of extinct-in-the wild lily deliver range of insights

DateMarch 14, 2018March 14, 2018

The Antiquities Act gives presidents power to protect federal land from development by creating national monuments, explained former solicitor for the U.S. Interior Department John Leshy. In December, President Trump used the law to reduce the size of two Utah natural monuments established by his predecessors.

Public lands ‘a priceless legacy’ for future

Former Interior official outlines disputes over their protection and use

DateMarch 9, 2018

Tough-Gel-Adhesives

Adhesives that can seal wounds

New material sticks to dynamically moving tissues even in the presence of blood

DateMarch 8, 2018March 15, 2018

Circuit board

A power boost for mobile technologies

Startup launches out of Harvard to help companies cross the touch-tech frontier

DateMarch 5, 2018March 5, 2018

This scanning electron micrograph image shows the MSR-PEI scaffold presenting tumor-expressed peptides. After it’s injected under the skin of mice, the biomaterial fills with dendritic cells that can be seen here as small, round shapes interacting with the spiky scaffold structure.

Personal cancer vaccines show promise

Tumor-specific peptides could help eradicate tumors and prevent them from recurring

DateMarch 5, 2018April 16, 2018

Visiting Professor Steven Handel says America’s coasts will change in the coming decades as sea levels rise, but landscape design, married with knowledge of native plants, can ensure that both human and natural needs are met.

Transforming the ‘coastal squeeze’ from climate change

Landscape rehabilitator Handel proposes adapting pragmatically to sea-level rise

DateMarch 2, 2018March 2, 2018

Visualization of the moon emerging from a cloud of vaporized rock.

A new view of the moon

Research led by grad student points to origins in ‘synestia,’ challenging widely accepted model

DateMarch 2, 2018June 11, 2018

Researchers have found that the mountain laurels' catapults launch pollen toward the center of the flower, leading to a hypothesis that they might be triggered only by larger insects, like bumblebees, which are likely to land there and carry pollen from one flower to another.

For this flower, it's ready, set, launch

Study examines the mountain laurel's powerful pollen catapults

DateFebruary 28, 2018February 28, 2018

exosuit

An exosuit tailored to fit

Algorithm allows personalized control strategies for soft, wearable exosuits

DateFebruary 28, 2018March 1, 2018

Tyler Prize winner James McCarthy, a professor of biological oceanography and Alexander Agassiz Professor of Biological Oceanography in the Museum of Comparative Zoology, remains optimistic that climate change is a solvable problem.

James McCarthy recognized for climate change insights

Tyler Prize winner sees hope for confronting growing threats in researchers of tomorrow

DateFebruary 28, 2018March 1, 2018

Artist rendering showing planets and black hole

Black hole blasts may transform ‘mini-Neptunes’ into rocky worlds

Scientists believe such planets would be heavier than the Earth

DateFebruary 27, 2018February 27, 2018

Artificial Eye on silicon

Breakthroughs seen in artificial eye and muscle technology

Adaptive metalens ‘can change its focus in real time, just like the human eye’

DateFebruary 23, 2018March 6, 2018

“When cancer patients receive radiation treatment for a specific organ, other organs are also affected, mostly the bone marrow, the lung, and the gut,” says first author Sasan Jalili-Firoozinezhad. Shown are normal, undamaged villi-like protrusions in the small intestine.

Study of radiation exposure in human gut offers hope

Organ-on-a-chip is starting point for radioprotective drugs for cancer patients

DateFebruary 16, 2018March 5, 2018

A multimaterial bioprinting of vascularized, stem cell-laden thick tissues used in kidney tissue research by Kim Homan and David Kolesky of Professor Jennifer Lewis's laboratory at Harvard University.

Seeding startups

Office of Technology Development welcomes entrepreneurs-in-residence to Harvard research labs

DateFebruary 15, 2018February 13, 2018

Still richer, smarter, greener, healthier, happier — but at a cost?

Economist Glaeser’s edX course examines benefits, potential risks of increased urbanization

DateFebruary 14, 2018February 15, 2018

A team of evolutionary biologists and engineers at Harvard has demonstrated a new structure, inspired by sharkskin, that could improve the aerodynamic performance of planes, wind turbines, drones, and cars.

Studying shark scales to design better drones, planes, turbines

Bioinspired vortex generators increase airfoil lift, decrease drag

DateFebruary 6, 2018February 8, 2018

Kelsey Sakimoto, postdoctoral fellow with the Center for the Environment, is exploring how to use the sun to enrich soil with an artificial leaf and engineered bacteria.

Expanding the reach of the bionic leaf

With eye on population growth, postdoc teams with Silver, Nocera on project to aid agriculture in developing world

DateJanuary 31, 2018February 1, 2018

Seven new research projects have been awarded funding in the fourth round of grants from Harvard’s Climate Change Solutions Fund.

New grants for climate solutions

7 winning research projects seek to address current impact, plan for future

DateJanuary 31, 2018January 31, 2018

Zhengwei Liu (left) and Arthur Jaffe are leading a new project to expand quon, their pictorial math language developed to help understand quantum information theory, into new fields from algebra to M-theory.

Picture-perfect approach to science

Mathematicians work to expand their new pictorial mathematical language into other areas

DateJanuary 24, 2018January 25, 2018

Onward and upward, robots

Harvard scientists help drive new age of machines, aiming for transformative impact in medicine, on Main Street, and beyond

DateJanuary 23, 2018February 26, 2018

milliDelta robot next to penny

Origami-inspired robot combines precision with speed

The milliDelta opens new avenues for microsurgery, microassembly, and micromanipulation

DateJanuary 22, 2018January 26, 2018

Biofilm resembles globe.

Beauty in the eye of the microscope

Science photos capture world in different light

DateJanuary 19, 2018January 19, 2018

OpenScholar has enabled Harvard scholars, academic and administrative departments, centers, and projects to create and maintain high-quality websites without programming knowledge or the steep costs associated with outside web development firms.

OpenScholar forms startup

Unique Harvard partnership sees versatile web-publishing platform spin off as company

DateJanuary 12, 2018January 12, 2018

A new study suggests that efforts to restore coral reefs, such as this staghorn coral thicket outplanted at Great St. James, have a positive impact on fish populations, both short- and long-term.

For answers on coral conservation, she followed the fish

Researcher’s St. Croix project explores impact of restoration efforts

DateJanuary 11, 2018January 16, 2018

Though vineyards might be able to counteract some effects of climate change by planting lesser-known grape varieties, scientists and vintners need a better understanding of the wide diversity of grapes and their adaptations.

As climate changes, so will wine grapes

To adapt to warmer temperatures, vintners may have to plant lesser-known varieties

DateJanuary 9, 2018January 11, 2018

This flat metalens is the first single lens that can focus the entire visible spectrum of light — including white light — in the same spot and in high resolution. It uses arrays of titanium dioxide nanofins to equally focus wavelengths of light and eliminate chromatic aberration.

Single metalens focuses all colors of the rainbow in one point

Ground-breaking lens opens new possibilities in virtual and augmented reality

DateJanuary 1, 2018January 2, 2018

Barnabas Daru is lead author of a study that uncovered sampling biases in a number of herbarium collections around the world, casting doubt on their usefulness in evaluating climate change.

Study uncovers botanical bias

Findings seen as a wrinkle for researchers who rely on herbarium collections in climate change work

DateDecember 22, 2017January 11, 2018

A radio image from the NSF’s Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array showing the center of our galaxy. The mysterious radio filament is the curved line located near the center of the image, and the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*) is shown by the bright, egg-shaped source near the bottom of the image.

Improved image of supermassive black hole

Filament found that allows astronomers to consider its origin

DateDecember 21, 2017January 26, 2018

Michael Knoblauch (right) and son, Jan,

How tall trees move sugars

Pressure from leaves pushes nutrients steadily to roots, study finds

DateDecember 18, 2017December 20, 2017

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