Science & Tech

Gov. Charlie Baker joined HMS faculty members in discussing the opioid crisis and the role physician education must play in fighting it.

Harvard psychology chair Mahzarin Banaji is working with a research fellow to launch a new project called “Outsmarting Human Minds.”

New research from faculty at Harvard Business School and Harvard Medical School finds that a majority of college freshmen believe others have more friends than they do, when they often don’t.

As artificial intelligence takes hold in more fields, you’ll likely have a job, analysts say, but it may be a different one.

A new Harvard Forest report, “Wildlands and Woodlands, Farmlands and Communities,” calls for tripling conservation efforts across the region.

Harvard’s new Data Science Initiative hosted its inaugural event, the first in a series of planned seminars featuring talks by faculty members focusing on new methods of managing and analyzing data and on cutting-edge applications.

Five undergraduate women from Harvard College talk about how they spent the summer researching climate and ecological stresses.

Brian Greene ’84, a Columbia University theoretical physicist and mathematician, has made it his mission to illuminate the wonders of the universe for non-scientists.

Martha’s Vineyard is best known as a summer playground for the rich, but it’s also setting an important conservation example, according to a new book by Harvard Forest Director David Foster.

Harvard College sophomore Sela Kasepa looked for robotics competitions that Zambian youth could join, and found FIRST Global, an annual student robotics Olympiad.

Online attackers may be able to purchase enough personal information to alter voter registration information in as many as 35 states and the District of Columbia, a new study says.

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.