Science & Tech

You believe in climate change but drive a gas-guzzler, don’t recycle. Why? Neuroscientist explores in new book.

A study overturns the long-held belief that ancient species grew at slow, steady pace, and offers insights into human maturation.

During a virtual Harvard Science Book Talk, Raghuveer Parthasarathy examines the mysteries covered in his new book, “So Simple a Beginning: How Four Physical Principles Shape Our Living World.”

The health impacts of climate change are gaining greater recognition, but the most important thing, one expert said, is to keep telling people’s stories.

The most significant climate change action during COP27 this month occurred thousands of miles away, in Bali, Indonesia, when the U.S. and China agreed to restart what had been a successful partnership to cut globe warming emissions before the two nations’ relations soured in recent years.

How squid and octopus get their big brains.

This semester, 11 students have been settling in as the first-ever cohort in the Harvard quantum science and engineering program.

Study looks at how forests in New England can be better utilized in the fight against climate change.

Anxiety illuminated by author and Radcliffe grad Sheila Tobias resonates with students, teachers almost 50 years later.

Students in the class examine a range of dog behaviors, how they evolved, and how they relate to human behavior.

New alliance between Harvard Data Science Initiative and Amazon Web Services set to transform how faculty use data to solve the world’s biggest problems.

Harvard team’s tool maps out thousands of nonpartisan options, simulates outcomes, holds up results to those of proposed plans.

Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability casts off with University-wide, interdisciplinary approach to begin finding real solutions to existential crisis .

MIT’s Peter Fisher details his new book, “What Is Dark Matter?,” at Harvard science event.

Climate as a technological, intergovernmental, and people problem: experts gather at Radcliffe to discuss climate change.

Jim Stock discusses climate and sustainability mission and goals as the University community marks the launch of the Salata Institute.

Scientists detect fast-moving plate tectonics and flipped magnetic poles on early Earth.

Aramont Fellows’ research seeks solutions to Chagas disease transmission, preterm births, and head and neck cancers.

Harvard and MIT researchers warn that opacity models need to be improved to accurately interpret data from the James Webb Space Telescope.

Analyzing more than two decades’ worth of supernova explosions, astrophysicists now have the most precise limits yet on the composition and evolution of the universe.

The best thing about learning science through barbecue is the flavor.

Genomic look at remains suggests victorious army got hand from substantial number of foreign mercenaries.

For the first time, astronomers have observed a black hole burping up stellar remains years after it shredded and consumed the star.

Harvard researchers take sea level fingerprints from theory to fact.

Tree rings could hold clues to climate change and forest change.

Randall Munroe is asking “What If?” again. You might like the answer.

Harvard faculty leaders explain implications for the field — and the future.

At a book talk, marine conservationist David Shiffman explained why he adores sharks and how we can help save them from extinction.

Porous liquids hold promise as bridge therapy, game-changer for artificial blood substitutes, preserving organs for transplant.

Fast climatic shifts due to global warming coincided with high rates of morphological change in most reptiles.