Science & Tech

Neuroscientist Robert Sapolsky says every decision, action you make is result of chain of genes, biology, experience that preceded it

Fabrication method could facilitate materials discovery

Eliminates gait freezing, a common and highly debilitating symptom

Harvard-led team helps create first molecular map for national neuroscience study

Key step toward reliable, game-changing quantum computing

Neuroscientist finds skills, temperament influenced by brain differences across breeds

Bonobos, one of our closest living animal relatives, show humanlike ability to work together outside social borders in new study

Study of crossbred butterflies suggests multiple genes involved

Data from salt flats suggest dry soil is worse than rising temperature

New book seeks to demystify complex science from black holes to time travel

‘Alfie and Me’ ecologist on what he learned as he bonded with bird

Astronauts spend years training for missions. How do commercial travelers get ready?

New technology gives voice to pathologic changes in neurodegenerative illnesses like Alzheimer’s and epilepsy.

Indian herpetologists bring their life’s work to Harvard just as study shows a world hostile to the fate of amphibians.

At the “Future of Cities” event, panelists explained how rising temperatures will impact different economic levels in various parts of world.

Machine learning techniques give scientists faster returns of high-quality organ images.

Harvard-led analysis suggests incentives to save carbon-absorbing trees, siting projects on rooftops, developed areas.

Harvard team’s method of reducing errors tackles a major barrier to scaling up technology.

EVEscape uses evolutionary and biological information to predict how a virus could change to escape the immune system.

The Center for Astrophysics | Harvard and Smithsonian’s results bolster hypothesis of how galaxy evolved.

Harvard-led project seeks to create the first comprehensive diagram of every neural connection.

New Salata Institute-led program aims to grow, improve infrastructure for longer trips, those who can’t charge at home.

Some worry a treatment that kills SARS-CoV-2 by helping it mutate could spawn a super virus. New research weighs in on its “evolutionary safety.”

Plant-based buildings, greener AI, and a national agroforest are just a few of the solutions researchers are teaming up to explore.

Loretta Mickley, a Harvard wildfire expert, says wildfires are not just a symptom of climate change, but with the increased burning of millenia-old global peat stores, have the potential to worsen warming.

Summer research program breaks down barriers for undergraduates with disabilities.

New Center for Astrophysics mission aims for closer look at photon rings and insight into nature of space and time.

Black holes, warming seas, new treatments for disease. Understanding the context — not to mention the technical jargon — can be a challenge.

A talk with Andrew Pontzen, author of “The Universe in a Box: Simulations and the Quest to Code the Cosmos.”

Reports surface of aggressive behavior but canine expert says there may be understandable reasons.