Science & Tech
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A common sense, win-win idea — and both right, left agree
Poll measures support for revenue-sharing plan on renewable energy that helps states, localities, and environment
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Climate change experts see dark clouds ahead
Salata Institute panelists predict legal, regulatory setbacks and areas of hope as Trump administration prepares to take over
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Ever wonder why your dog does this?
Study decodes neural mechanism that causes hairy mammals to shake their fur when wet
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Kempner AI cluster named one of world’s fastest ‘green’ supercomputers
Computational power can be used to train and run artificial neural networks, creates key advances in understanding basis of intelligence in natural and artificial systems
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How humans evolved to be ‘energetically unique’
Metabolic rates outpaced ‘couch potato’ primates thanks to sweat, says new study
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‘Harnessing evolution’
New tool allows researchers to study gene mutation directly within living human cells
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‘The code word … is interoperability’
The International Image Interoperability Framework makes online access as good as, or better than, physical interaction with library collections.
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What we learned
Highlights from another year of discovery at Harvard, where inquiring minds are the norm.
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Doomed exoplanet spiraling toward obliteration
For the first time, astronomers have spotted an exoplanet whose orbit is decaying around an evolved, or older, host star.
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Why nuclear fusion is so exciting
Harvard scientist Adam Cohen breaks down breakthrough that might prove major turning point in clean energy efforts — but not any time soon.
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Looking to retain most potent regenerative stem cells
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.
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You believe in climate change but drive a gas-guzzler, don’t recycle. Why?
You believe in climate change but drive a gas-guzzler, don’t recycle. Why? Neuroscientist explores in new book.
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‘Croco-salamander’ bones offer clues to how early animals emerged from water
A study overturns the long-held belief that ancient species grew at slow, steady pace, and offers insights into human maturation.
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Why elephants have bigger bones
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.”
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Raising health care’s climate voice
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.
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Glimmers of movement, hope at COP27
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.
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How big brains are made
How squid and octopus get their big brains.
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New generation of quantum realm explorers
This semester, 11 students have been settling in as the first-ever cohort in the Harvard quantum science and engineering program.
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New England forests, new strategies can offset most regional emissions over 30 years, report says
Study looks at how forests in New England can be better utilized in the fight against climate change.
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The myth of the ‘math person’
Anxiety illuminated by author and Radcliffe grad Sheila Tobias resonates with students, teachers almost 50 years later.
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What’s the dog doing now?
Students in the class examine a range of dog behaviors, how they evolved, and how they relate to human behavior.
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Applying cloud computing to major global problems
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.
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How to spot a gerrymandered district? Compare it to fair ones.
Harvard team’s tool maps out thousands of nonpartisan options, simulates outcomes, holds up results to those of proposed plans.
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A global beacon on climate change
Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability casts off with University-wide, interdisciplinary approach to begin finding real solutions to existential crisis .
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Mystery of dark matter — and search for WIMP
MIT’s Peter Fisher details his new book, “What Is Dark Matter?,” at Harvard science event.
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Climate opportunities in U.S. and around the world, but not enough action
Climate as a technological, intergovernmental, and people problem: experts gather at Radcliffe to discuss climate change.
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Launching Salata Institute to marshal Harvard resources to fight climate crisis
Jim Stock discusses climate and sustainability mission and goals as the University community marks the launch of the Salata Institute.
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Laying geological groundwork for life on Earth
Scientists detect fast-moving plate tectonics and flipped magnetic poles on early Earth.
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Aramont Fellowships spotlight and support pathbreaking initiatives
Aramont Fellows’ research seeks solutions to Chagas disease transmission, preterm births, and head and neck cancers.
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Might be a balmy paradise. Might be a face-melting wasteland.
Harvard and MIT researchers warn that opacity models need to be improved to accurately interpret data from the James Webb Space Telescope.
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Most precise accounting yet of dark energy and dark matter
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.
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Take lesson on barbecue, sprinkle liberally with thermodynamics
The best thing about learning science through barbecue is the flavor.
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Legendary Battle of Himera was triumph of Greek heroism, kind of
Genomic look at remains suggests victorious army got hand from substantial number of foreign mercenaries.
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Black hole burps up shredded star
For the first time, astronomers have observed a black hole burping up stellar remains years after it shredded and consumed the star.
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Better predictions on rise of oceans on warming Earth
Harvard researchers take sea level fingerprints from theory to fact.
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Want to know how cold it was in 1490? Ask a tree
Tree rings could hold clues to climate change and forest change.