Tag: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

  • Campus & Community

    Harvard partners with national labs on quantum computing

    The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and the U.S. Department of Energy announced the creation of five new Quantum Information Science Research Centers across the country. Harvard researchers will play important roles in three of the centers.

    7 minutes
    A close-up view of a quantum compute
  • Health

    Your building might be making you sick. Joe Allen can help.

    On his first day at Harvard Chan School, Joe Allen was challenged by one of his bosses to do world-changing research. He’s been on working on it ever since.

    13 minutes
  • Science & Tech

    New sources near for biofuels

    Researchers are making progress in creating a biofuels process that will allow the use of tough-to-digest cellulose produced by hardy grasses that can be grown on marginal land around the world, the head of the Energy Biosciences Institute said Oct. 13 during a presentation at the Harvard University Center for the Environment.

    4 minutes
  • Science & Tech

    Nobel origins

    All three winners of the 2011 Nobel Prize in physics have connections to Harvard — including two whose Ph.D.s launched them into their winning notion of an accelerating universe and the puzzle of dark matter.

    6 minutes
  • Health

    More from spores: How they spread

    Researchers discover how fungi developed an aerodynamic way to reduce drag on their spores so as to spread them as high and as far as possible.

    6 minutes