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The Wolbach Library is putting together an exhibition of Harvard's observations of eclipses since the 19th century, including the papers (pictured) of George Phillips Bond, Harvard Observatory director from 1859 to 1865.

Eclipses, through the years

As photography developed, Harvard astronomers eagerly embraced it to understand the heavens

DateAugust 18, 2017August 21, 2017

An Asian green mussel’s foot probes the surface, evaluating whether it can attach byssal threads. The Wyss' SLIPS technology disrupts this process, confusing its senses and forcing it to move on.

No harm, no foul

Wyss-developed antifouling coating a boon to business and environment

DateAugust 17, 2017August 17, 2017

The Center for Astrophysics' new app, Eclipse 2017, comes with several features to prepare, learn, and watch the eclipse that will travel across the United States on Aug. 21.

Viewing the solar eclipse? There’s an app for that

CfA releases educational app ahead of highly anticipated solar eclipse

DateAugust 7, 2017August 17, 2017

girl in field laughing

The negative side of positive thinking

Study finds optimism may curb action

DateAugust 4, 2017August 4, 2017

A joint Harvard-MIT study uses an automated computer vision algorithm to study Google Street View images in order to gauge urban change.

Gauging street change over time

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

DateJuly 28, 2017July 28, 2017

This view of the ankle-assisting exosuit shows its soft robotic elements and the cable that transfers mechanical power from actuators operated from the hip to the ankle joint.

Robotic suit promotes normal walking in stroke patients

Wyss technology opens new approaches to gait retraining and rehabilitation

DateJuly 27, 2017

A testament to the resiliency of life on Earth, the tiny tardigrade can outlast any cosmic calamity, according to a new Oxford-Harvard study.

Last survivors on Earth

As long as the sun shines, hardy tardigrade will carry on

DateJuly 20, 2017October 3, 2017

New research finds how the properties of subatomic elementary particles, visualized in the middle of this artist's impression, may be imprinted in the largest cosmic structures visible in the universe, shown on either side.

Scientists are using the universe as a ‘cosmological collider’

Paves the way for the future discovery of new physics

DateJuly 20, 2017October 3, 2017

John DelRosso, head arborist at the Arnold Arboretum, cuts tree branches to be quarantined where forest managers and scientists can collect and identify pests that emerge from the wood.

Wielding chainsaws for science

Joint Arboretum and Forest Service program protects trees from pests

DateJuly 18, 2017July 18, 2017

CRISPR system-based technology lets researchers record digital data — such as successive frames of a movie of a galloping horse — in a population of living bacteria. This could eventually have cells record the key changes they undergo during development or exposure to environmental or pathogenic signals.

New CRISPR technology takes cells to the movies

Genome engineering system transforms living cells into archival data storage devices

DateJuly 12, 2017April 25, 2018

“This research doesn’t tell us how to create better schools, but it gives us the tools to do field experiments that can,” said Harvard Professor Elizabeth Spelke.

Research may provide the tools to create better schools

Cognitive science field experiments are critical to understanding human learning and education

DateJuly 7, 2017July 7, 2017

A conflict in estimates of how much the Earth will warm in response to a doubling of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has been resolved, according to a Harvard study.

Reconciling predictions of climate change

New framework accounts for conflicting estimates of global temperature increases

DateJuly 5, 2017July 5, 2017

When pedestrians passed an affluent-looking white person on the street, 14 percent were willing to support the "millionaire's tax," but after seeing a poor-looking white person, that support fell to 6 percent, according to Melissa Sands.

Inequality’s influence

Study shows that exposure to inequality reduces support for ‘millionaire’s tax’

DateJune 27, 2017June 28, 2017

A new study shows that the brains of people born without hands represent tools and hands similarly to the brains of people born with hands, suggesting that the connection between hands and tools is innate rather than learned.

How the brain handles tools

Those born with and without hands represent tools the same way in the brain, study finds

DateJune 27, 2017

$A man clears rubble in Sparks, Okla., following two earthquakes in 24 hours in November 2011. The area is home to thousands of fracking wells.$

Feeling the impact of fracking

Boston College scholar uses Radcliffe fellowship to study earthquake link

DateJune 16, 2017June 21, 2017

Harvard CIO Anne Margulies chats with Karim R. Lakhani, professor of business administration at the Business School, before his afternoon keynote address at the annual IT Summit.

For IT Summit, a focus on innovation

Platforms trump products as internet evolves, speaker says

DateJune 13, 2017June 15, 2017

Harvard climate experts see President Trump's decision to pull the U.S. from the Paris agreement as a mistake, damaging the nation's standing as the world leader as well as imperiling natural wonders like the Cascadian glaciers (pictured).

Scholars greet Paris exit as multifaceted mistake

Faculty across disciplines react to withdrawal from climate accord

DateJune 13, 2017November 30, 2017

Director of the Harvard Center for Green Buildings and Cities Ali Malkawi is retrofitting 20 Sumner Road, built almost 100 years ago, to become an ultra-efficient building and ultimately the Center's headquarters.

A house that produces energy

In Q&A, Ali Malkawi explains project designed to maximize efficiency, savings

DateJune 13, 2017July 5, 2017

Inspired by arthropod insects and spiders, scientists George Whitesides and Alex Nemiroski have created a type of semi-soft robot capable of walking, using simple materials such as drinking straws and inflatable tubing.

From drinking straws to robots

Harvard scientists use simple materials to create semi-soft machines that walk like insects

DateJune 13, 2017June 13, 2017

A rise in severe storms could put residents of the Midwest at an increased risk of UV radiation, warns a Harvard study.

Midwest summer storms threaten ozone, study warns

Similarities to polar erosion spark call for closer look at region

DateJune 8, 2017July 5, 2017

Corporate leaders across sectors, including Tesla’s Elon Musk, criticized the president over the decision to withdraw from the Paris accord.

Will business fill the Paris void?

Exit from climate agreement seen as step backward for U.S. competitiveness

DateJune 6, 2017June 7, 2017

A system of actuation wires attached to the back of the exosuit provides assistive force to the hip joint during running.

New robotic exosuit could push the limits of human performance

Wearable technologies for athletes and consumers a growing possibility

DateJune 2, 2017June 2, 2017

Physics Professor Markus Greiner (in back) and his team — Anton Mazurenko (from left), senior grad student, Daniel Greif, postdoc fellow, Geoffrey Ji, graduate student, and Christie Chiu (not shown) — have created an antiferromagnet, an exotic form of matter that can give important insights into how room temperature superconductors might be created.

Figuring out superconductors

Physicists create antiferromagnet that may help develop, monitor key materials

DateJune 1, 2017June 1, 2017

“When we saw the extent of the decline in lead levels, and only saw it once, during the years of the [Black Death] pandemic, we were intrigued,” said postdoc Alexander More.

Probing the Black Death for lead pollution insights

Study of 14th-century plague challenges assumptions on ‘natural’ levels

DateMay 30, 2017May 31, 2017

The kidneys are made up of about a million tiny units that work to filter blood. Researchers have been attempting to engineer human stem cells so they form into functional podocytes. A human stem cell-derived matured podocyte is captured here via a scanning electron micrograph.

Human stem cells model the kidney’s filtration barrier

A glomerulus-on-a-chip could model patient-specific kidney diseases, guide therapeutic discovery

DateMay 10, 2017

At the Harvard Chan School Forum on the nationwide opioid crisis, former governors Ted Strickland (from left) and Steven Beshear, the Menschel Senior Fellow, called for greater doctor cooperation and increased federal resources. Moderator and WGBH reporter Craig LeMoult led the discussion that was broadcast live on NPR.

Sorrow, frustration, hope in opioid crisis

Harvard panels share experiences, ideas in health, policy, law enforcement

DateMay 9, 2017November 30, 2017

Director of the Center for Geographic Analysis Jason Ur has pioneered the use of drone aircraft to aid his research efforts for years, most recently using them to quickly create 3-D maps of ancient sites in Iraq’s Kurdistan region, such as this aerial survey of Girdi Dowlabakra.

Drone's-eye view

Center for Geographic Analysis hosts conference on using drones for academic research

DateMay 5, 2017May 5, 2017

Jonathan Phillips, postdoctoral fellow in psychology, is the lead author of a new study that shows people view immoral actions as impossible. “This might actually help people act morally,” Phillips said. “Maybe it’s easier to do the right thing if your brain is designed to treat the wrong thing … as if it were impossible."

Me, steal? Impossible

Researchers uncover twist in moral imagination

DateApril 28, 2017May 1, 2017

The Harvard University Center for the Environment (HUCE) has produced 35 videos in which experts in various fields describe work related to climate change. The videos are paired with additional material that will serve as a resource as the University marks Harvard Climate Week, from April 24-28.

Five-minute warnings

Video project channels wide range of climate change knowledge at Harvard, Schrag says

DateApril 24, 2017

Award-winning writer Naomi Klein spoke to a capacity crowd at First Parish Church about the incompatible goals of climate action and the free market. “If you look at the pillars of neoliberalism ... what you see is that it’s impossible to reconcile climate action with that worldview.”

Pick climate or economics

To aid the former, Naomi Klein says, government and business would have to change the latter, and likely won’t

DateApril 21, 2017

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