Science & Tech

Harvard-led team finds standards don’t account for major source of drinking water contamination.

New study looks at the dynamics of how warming may affect carbon capture in soil near trees and plants.

Despite increasing momentum toward a green energy shift, the world remains far off track from emissions reductions that will limit global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius, Biden’s climate ambassador said.

GSD Associate Professor Holly Samuelson explains how climate change is catalyzing dramatic new city and state regulations as architects, designers, and developers are struggling to stay current.

Inaugural Harvard Climate Leadership Summit brings together students from across disciplines, Schools with established figures to pitch, consider, inspire.

Genomic analysis suggests host diversity is far greater than previously thought.

Scientific breakthroughs will enable exploration of Earth’s biochemical past, with hopes of discovering new therapeutic molecules.

Scientists say it’s a preview of Earth’s fate in 5 billion years.

Harvard Professor Richard Losick highlights flawed, human side of science in his MSI Distinguished Achievement Award lecture.

Study finds aid programs cut disparities in brain structure and mental health, especially in states where the cost of living is high.

Biomolecular archaeology reveals a fuller picture of the Xiongnu people, the world’s first nomadic empire.

Discovery of new mechanism could have wide implications for other cancers.

Journalist, crisis expert at HKS event say it shifted nation’s attitude toward military, global sense of need to prepare for unexpected disasters.

Smartphones enabled researchers to capture shifts multiple times a day, gathering data that could help guide more effective prevention.

Former Biden climate adviser Gina McCarthy brings insider’s view of status of battle against warming to Smith Center

A new geophysical analysis helps fill gaps in an archeological puzzle: why Norse vanished in the 15th century.

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.