Tag: Isotopes

  • Nation & World

    How the moon came to be

    A fourth-year graduate student in the lab of Professor of Geochemistry Stein Jacobsen, Yaray Ku is working on a project aimed at understanding how the moon formed, and to do it, she’s working with actual lunar samples.

    4 minutes
    Yaya Ku researches the moon
  • Nation & World

    Rock sleuths

    In one of the largest studies of its kind, Harvard researchers have found that carbon records from the mid-Neoproterozoic era can be “read” as a faithful snapshot of the surface carbon cycle between 717 million and 635 million years ago, a finding that directly challenges a decades-long belief of most scientists.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Surrendering their secrets

    Ann Pearson, professor of biogeochemistry, uses chemistry to understand ancient biology.

    4 minutes