Tag: frogs

  • Nation & World

    Who will fight for the frogs?

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

    6 minutes
    Sathyabhama Das Biju (from left), James Hanken, Harvard’s Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology, and Sonali Garg.
  • Nation & World

    Physics, real and fictional

    A Harvard study is exploring the way humans’ sense of “intuitive physics” of the real world leaves fingerprints on the fictional universes we create.

    7 minutes
    Levitating frog.
  • Nation & World

    Brains or skin?

    A protein that is necessary for the formation of the vertebrate brain has been identified by researchers at the Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI) and Boston Children’s Hospital, in collaboration with scientists from Oxford and Rio de Janeiro.

    2 minutes
  • Nation & World

    The divergent skull

    New work by Harvard scientists challenges long-standing ideas on skull development in vertebrates.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    All goes swimmingly

    Using simple hydrodynamics, a team of Harvard researchers was able to show that a handful of principles govern how virtually every animal — from the tiniest fish to birds to the largest whales — propel themselves through the water.

    4 minutes