Science & Tech

Seattle Times environmental reporter Lynda Mapes turned her fellowship year at Harvard Forest into a book titled “Witness Tree.”

Harvard experts say that changing the language of addiction is key to fighting the stigma attached to it.

An undergraduate deciphers the meaning of Incan knots, giving long-dead native South American people a chance to speak.

Study finds out-of-pocket health care costs can lead to financial problems for survivors of childhood cancer.

A Harvard study links an individual’s psychological basis for enforcing group hierarchies to national indicators.

As photography developed, Harvard astronomers embraced it as a scientific means to understand the sky.

Researchers at SEAS, the Wyss Institute, and Nanyang Technological University in Singapore have developed a nontoxic coating that deters marine life from attaching to surfaces in a breakthrough for maritime travel and commerce.

The Smithsonian and Harvard have released an interactive app ahead of the 2017 total solar eclipse, giving Americans a front-row seat to a rare celestial event.

“It often seems that partisans believe they are so correct that others will eventually come to see the obviousness of their correctness,” said Todd Rogers of the Harvard Kennedy School about his new research.

Study uses computer vision algorithm to study Google Street View images to show urban shifts.

Wyss Institute’s soft, wearable, robotic suit promotes normal walking in stroke patients.

A testament to the resiliency of life, the microscopic tardigrade can survive any cosmic calamity, according to an Oxford-Harvard study.

Using universe as cosmological collider could provide information that leads to the sign of new physics.

A collaboration between the Arnold Arboretum and the U.S. Forest Service has the two organizations, which typically fight tree pests, rearing wood-boring beetles for science.

CRISPR system-based technology enables the chronological recording of digital information, turning living cells into a biological hard drive that can record information.

Harvard and MIT study reveals that cognitive science field experiments are critical to understanding human learning and education.

Harvard researchers are able to provide a best estimate regarding how much the Earth will warm as a result of doubled CO2 emissions.

A new study has found that, following momentary exposure to inequality, support for a “millionaire’s tax” dropped by more than 50 percent.

A new study shows that, despite having no experience using tools with their hands, the brains of people born without hands represent tools and hands much the same as seen in the brains of people born with hands.

As a fellow at Radcliffe, environmental historian Conevery Bolton Valencius is investigating connections between fracking and earthquakes.

The annual Harvard IT Summit at Sanders Theatre brought together professionals, key partners, and faculty for a day of programming and sessions to explore technology innovations and best practices in higher education.

Harvard experts look at different aspects of President Trump’s decision to withdraw the U.S. from the Paris climate agreement.

Harvard’s Ali Malkawi explains his efforts to create a house will be transformed into an energy-efficient headquarters and lab space for the Graduate School of Design’s Center for Green Buildings and Cities.

Inspired by arthropod insects and spiders, scientists George Whitesides and Alex Nemiroski have created a type of semi-soft robot capable of walking, using drinking straws, and inflatable tubing. The team was even able to create a robotic water strider capable of pushing itself along the water’s surface.

Summer storms in the central U.S. create the same chemical reactions damaging ozone in the Arctic, warns a Harvard study calling for a closer look at the region’s UV radiation risk.

Q&A with HBS Professor George Serafeim on the response among corporate leaders to the U.S. exit from the Paris climate agreement.

Harvard researchers have demonstrated that a tethered soft exosuit can bring those dreams of high performance closer to reality.

A team of physicists has taken a crucial step toward understanding superconductors by creating a quantum antiferromagnet from an ultracold gas of hundreds of lithium atoms.

The natural level of lead in the air is essentially zero, according to research backed by data from the 14th-century Black Death, when mining and smelting ceased.

Researchers say their glomerulus-on-a-chip lined by human stem cell-derived kidney cells could help model patient-specific kidney diseases and guide therapeutic discovery.