Tag: Dogs

  • Science & Tech

    What shapes your dog’s personality

    Neuroscientist finds skills, temperament influenced by brain differences across breeds

    Dogs of varying breeds.
  • Health

    Keep the dog cool

    Science has shown that violence among monkeys, rats, and mice increases when the weather is warm. Now it seems we can add dogs to the list.

    Angry dog with bared teeth.
  • Health

    Take it from the experts, a pet can change your life

    The health benefits of animal companions have been supported by science but not society, with the disadvantaged facing similar barriers to pet ownership as they do in securing proper healthcare, experts said at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health on Monday.

    Megan Mueller, Tufts Professor from the Tufts Vet School, left, and HMS Professor Beth Frates
  • Science & Tech

    Does your dog care if you die?

    Any owner would say yes. Here’s what the science says.

    Illustration of beagle.
  • Science & Tech

    Hunters, herders, companions: Breeding dogs has reordered their brains

    Erin Hecht, who joined the faculty in January, has published her first paper on our canine comrades in the Journal of Neuroscience, finding that different breeds have different brain organizations owing to human cultivation of specific traits.

    Researcher with two dogs
  • Arts & Culture

    The introspective Laurie Anderson

    Performance artist Laurie Anderson delved into her inspirations and motivations as she gave the Music Department’s Louis C. Elson Lecture.

  • Health

    So doggone complicated

    Geneticist Elaine Ostrander runs a comparative-genomics lab that examines dog DNA to understand better the traits that might aid understanding of human diseases.

  • Campus & Community

    Doggone that stress

    Back-to-school pressures don’t rise just for students. Faculty and staff can feel the pinch too. A new therapy dog at Harvard Medical School is one of many creative solutions employed around the University.

  • Health

    No cheeks, no problem

    Harvard biologist Alfred W. Crompton shows that dogs drink not with a messy scoop of the tongue, but in a way similar to that of cats — by using adhesion and inertia to pull water from the bowl into their mouths.