Science & Tech

Researchers in recent years have begun applying the emerging technology of the drone aircraft to research efforts, and are now even using them to quickly create 3-D maps of ancient sites in Iraq’s Kurdistan region.

New findings suggest a surprisingly common default in human behavior: the view that immoral actions are impossible.

The Harvard University Center for the Environment has produced 35 videos in which experts in various fields describe work related to climate change.

To make a difference on climate change, author Naomi Klein says, government and business would have to shift their ways, and likely won’t.

Carlos Moedas, European Union Science Commissioner, spoke about the importance of science in the “post-truth” era in a visit to the Harvard Kennedy School.

Q&A with Dava Sobel, whose new book “The Glass Universe” explores pioneering work by female analysts at the Harvard College Observatory.

New Harvard research examines the gap between stories we like to tell and stories we like to hear.

Professor Naomi Oreskes wants scientists to make a stronger case for action on climate change.

Harvard scientists helped develop an algorithm for predicting whether a social structure is likely to favor cooperation.

Harvard launches sweeping data science initiative, and names Francesca Dominici and David Parkes as co-directors.

New findings indicate that a smartphone-based semen analyzer can identify abnormal semen samples based on sperm concentration and motility criteria with approximately 98 percent accuracy.

David Buckley Borden, a Bullard Fellow at Harvard Forest, is using art to make a point about sustainability and conservation.

A new study led by Harvard Medical School and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health researchers examines the impact of individual physicians’ spending patterns on patient outcomes.

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, is the rare government agency that is all about change, in this case endlessly improving technology that has military applications.

A new study suggests that infant-directed song evolved as a way for parents to signal to children that their needs were being met, while leaving time for other tasks, like food foraging or caring for other offspring.

Seven Harvard projects will share $1 million to help battle climate change across a range of academic boundaries.

A trio of Harvard researchers has developed a new 3-D pictorial language for mathematics with potential as a tool across a wide spectrum, from pure math to physics.

Researchers have shown, for the first time, that chimpanzees learn certain grooming behaviors from their mothers. Once learned, chimps continued to perform the behavior long after the deaths of their mothers.

Based on data collected from a French grocery store chain, a new Harvard study has found that minority workers were far less efficient in a handful of important metrics when working with biased managers.

The Gazette speaks to Robert Stavins, director of the Harvard Project on Climate Agreements and a past member of the EPA’s Science Advisory Board, about the future of the EPA under the leadership of Scott Pruitt.

A new Harvard study argues that technological approaches to sustainability must be accompanied by efforts to reduce inequality.

A Nobel Prize-winning chemist has called for additional research into the air pollution blanketing the world’s megacities, saying that solutions found in the developed world’s cities are not likely to apply in other places.

In a trio of studies published earlier this month, researchers have shown that the process of catalysis is more dynamic than previously imagined, and that molecular forces can vastly influence the process.

Harvard study is the first to show that working in high-performing, green-certified buildings can improve employee decision-making using objective cognitive simulations.

Students threw paper airplanes in class for inspiration, not trouble, in a workshop led by a record-setting designer.

There are thousands of unapproved chemicals, often banned elsewhere, in the U.S. environment, panelists at a Harvard forum say.

The inaugural session of the Harvard DataFest conference brought attention to Harvard’s growing interest in data science.

A study suggests that while psychopaths do feel regret, however, it doesn’t affect their choices.

A course featuring adaptive learning explores the technological feasibility, implications, and design of such a system to improve massive open online courses.

A new exhibit at the Harvard Museum of Natural History brings an artist’s view to the ongoing extinction crisis affecting the planet.