Science & Tech

Engineers’ finding could provide crucial clues about cloud formation, differences between natural and polluted environments, and climate change.

Since Harvard received its first telescope in the 1670s, its astronomers have pushed back the frontiers of knowledge about the ever-expanding, planet-rich place that is the universe.

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) today announced that it is resuming funding embryonic stem cell research. “We are pleased with the…interim ruling” yesterday by a three-judge panel of the…

A temporary restraining order last month that blocked federal funding for certain kinds of stem cell research was viewed by many as a blow to cutting-edge science that already is…

A temporary restraining order that blocked federal funding for certain kinds of stem cell research was viewed by many as a blow to cutting-edge science. In response, President Drew Faust said, “We hope that the temporary injunction will soon be lifted and that Congress will take the steps necessary to ensure that stem cell scientists can carry on their work vigorously and responsibly, in the interests of the millions of people who may someday enjoy its benefits. …”

Harvard engineers have created a millionth-scale automobile differential to guide tiny aerial robots.

Harvard undergraduate Derek Robins recounts his summer spent doing astronomy research on campus.

Scientist discusses growing effects of global climate change with members of Harvard’s Class of 2014.

Harvard researchers have found that humans can make difficult moral decisions using the same brain circuits as those used in more mundane choices related to money and food. These circuits,…

A new study finds link between lack of close ties and heart disease risk, adding to evidence that a person’s social environment can play a big role in health.

Chemists and engineers at Harvard University have fashioned nanowires into a new type of V-shaped transistor small enough to be used for sensitive probing of the interior of cells.

“Love stinks!” the J. Geils band told the world in 1980, and while you can certainly argue whether or not this tender and ineffable spirit of affection has a downside,…

A collaborative team of scientists at Harvard and the University of Leeds have demonstrated a new terahertz (THz) semiconductor laser that emits beams with a much smaller divergence than conventional…

A team of Harvard physicists led by Mikhail D. Lukin has achieved the first-ever quantum entanglement of photons and solid-state materials.  The work marks a key advance toward practical quantum networks, as…

Harvard physicists demonstrate the first quantum entanglement of photons and solid-state materials, in work that marks a key advance toward practical quantum networks that can communicate over long distances.

Two new computerized tests, developed at Harvard, show promise in predicting patients’ risk of attempting suicide.

A hundred million years ago, a triple-star system was traveling through the bustling center of our Milky Way galaxy when it made a life-changing misstep. The trio wandered too close to the galaxy’s giant black hole, which captured one of the stars and hurled the other two out of the Milky Way.

The Harvard Corporation has adopted a University-wide faculty financial conflict of interest policy, the first time such a policy has been crafted to cover faculty members across the entire campus.…

The new Harvard University Policy on Individual Financial Conflicts of Interest for Persons Holding Faculty and Teaching Appointments (University Conflict of Interest Policy) is built upon 12 principles that establish a…

To trap and hold tiny microparticles, research engineers at Harvard have “put a ring on it,” using a silicon-based circular resonator to confine particles stably for up to several minutes.

Two floors of classrooms in Larsen Hall at the Harvard Graduate School of Education are the first in the world to win the highest LEED-CI rating.

Miriah Myer, a postdoctoral fellow, is a computer scientist using technology to better model and clarify medical data.

“More than meets the eye” may soon become more than just for the Transformer line of popular robotic toys. Researchers at Harvard and MIT have reshaped the landscape of programmable…

A Harvard and MIT research team demonstrates how a single thin sheet composed of interconnected triangular sections can transform itself into another shape, without the help of skilled fingers, in a kind of origami robotics.

Researchers at Harvard’s Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering have created a device that mimics a living, breathing human lung on a microchip. The device, about the size of a rubber eraser, acts much like a lung in a human body and is made using human lung and blood vessel cells.

Researchers find ways in which tactile sensations appear to influence social judgments and decisions in everyday life.

Physicists create an artificial material to gain up-close insights into quantum materials and how they interact.

In nature, cells and tissues assemble and organize themselves within a matrix of protein fibers that ultimately determines their structure and function, such as the elasticity of skin and the contractility of heart tissue. These natural design principles have now been successfully replicated in the lab by bioengineers at Harvard’s Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering and School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.

Imagine creating novel devices with amazing and exotic optical properties not found in nature — by simply evaporating a droplet of particles on a surface. By chemically building clusters of…

“Technology proposes itself an architect of our intimacies,” explained Massachusetts Institute of Technology Professor Sherry Turkle to an engrossed audience May 14 at the Harvard University Extension School.