Science & Tech

In a Harvard talk following a preview of his new documentary, the director debates nuclear energy’s merits as a climate change solution.

Postdoc Carolyn Elya sheds light on how parasitic fungus hijacks the nervous system of flies.

Environmental science and engineering doctoral student grew up next door to family’s palm-oil refinery outside Bangkok.

Two new studies describe path of divergent sensing capabilities, tracking lineage from common ancestral neurons.

Researchers have discovered a huge clue to the century-old mystery of why some ants become workers and others become queens.

Steven Wofsy explains how the satellite will spot global sources of methane emissions, which in many cases can be halted with relatively simple fixes.

Researchers find five new species of hard-to-access creatures amid shortage of knowledge, concerns growing commercial interest may cause extinctions.

Sam Wattrus ’16, Ph.D. ’22, becomes the first human developmental and regenerative biology concentrator to establish an independent research lab.

Researchers found that female mice, despite ongoing hormonal fluctuations, exhibit exploratory behavior that is more stable than that of their male peers, countering the belief that the hormone cycle in females causes behavioral variation that could throw off results.

A new study illuminates the way pathogens — and pheromones — alter social behavior in animals.

By studying the fossil record of one group of organisms, researchers now worry that human-driven climate change may return us to an “Earth of 8 million years ago … detrimentally restructuring the marine communities of the entire ocean.”

Science author Harold McGee explores all things olfactory in “Nose Dive: A Field Guide to the World’s Smells.”

You’ll never experience a black hole, but Avi Loeb can help you imagine one

Quantum computing simulation reveals possible wormhole-like dynamics.

Funding aims to help researchers turn their ideas into products and services that confront real-world problems.

Psychologist says the chatbot is impressive — and may offer insights into the nature of human intelligence once it “stops making stuff up.”

Experts from Harvard and around the world embark on ambitious interdisciplinary projects that tackle climate change challenges head-on.

A new study has found that dust launched from the moon’s surface or from a space station positioned between Earth and the sun could reduce enough solar radiation to mitigate the impacts of climate change.

Researchers uncover pattern in developmental psychology of 3-year-olds: a struggle to weigh competing options.

Authors Andrew Budson and Elizabeth Kensinger offer insights on how to keep both a healthy brain and a strong memory.

Sean Carroll’s videos explaining fundamental ideas in modern physics are becoming a book trilogy.

In a new study, researchers uncover personality traits behind people’s preferences when making fashion decisions.

Australian physicist demystifies the experimental side of the field and recalls forgotten pioneers.

Harvard scientists’ research on mice suggests chain reaction may be involved in the brain’s aging process.

In the study, scientists showed how the multinational energy giant worked to cloud the issue.

The International Image Interoperability Framework makes online access as good as, or better than, physical interaction with library collections.

Highlights from another year of discovery at Harvard, where inquiring minds are the norm.

For the first time, astronomers have spotted an exoplanet whose orbit is decaying around an evolved, or older, host star.

Harvard scientist Adam Cohen breaks down breakthrough that might prove major turning point in clean energy efforts — but not any time soon.

Early on human bodies are full of pluripotent stem cells, capable of generating any other type of cell. The problem is we lose them at birth.