Tag: Peter Girguis

  • Nation & World

    2 very different microbes immune to the same viruses? Scientists were puzzled.

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

    3 minutes
    Yunha Hwang and Peter Girguis.
  • Nation & World

    How greatest biological discovery of 20th century got passed over

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

    5 minutes
    Richard Losick.
  • Nation & World

    Racing to catalog, study deep-sea biodiversity

    Researchers find five new species of hard-to-access creatures amid shortage of knowledge, concerns growing commercial interest may cause extinctions.

    6 minutes
    Squat lobster.
  • Nation & World

    Quick, hand me my worm pick

    When asked, several Harvard researchers shared their most treasured or essential pieces of lab, field, or office equipment. The answers ranged from highly technical to downright quirky.

    9 minutes
    Lab equipment
  • Nation & World

    Need a book for a young person?

    Looking for a good book for a young person? Suggestions from Harvard community.

    12 minutes
    Young person leaping across stacks of books.
  • Nation & World

    Notes from the new normal

    What is normal in a quarantined world? Apparently, whatever you want it to be.

    5 minutes
    Jonathan Savilonis and sons Julius and Lysander with their LEGO model of Harvard's Music Building.
  • Nation & World

    Oceans away

    A new NASA-funded program will study water worlds and environments to understand the limits of life as part of the search for life on other planets.

    4 minutes
    Fish in the ocean
  • Nation & World

    The deepest colors you’ll ever see

    “I wanted to make the viewers feel they were transported to the bottom of the ocean,” says Lily Simonson about her exhibit “Painting the Deep,” on view at Harvard Museum of Natural History.

    4 minutes
    Lily Simonson in her studio.
  • Nation & World

    Rewarding remarkable studies

    The annual awards created through a gift from James A. Star ’83 fund research unlikely to be funded through other programs — risky studies with the potential to contribute to radical new understandings of our world.

    13 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Carbon consumers

    Natural lab holds promise to transform understanding of deep-ocean carbon cycling, says Professor Peter Girguis.

    6 minutes
    Researchers drill wells into the ocean floor.
  • Nation & World

    Launching a space mission from the deepest ocean

    Scientists from Harvard and Woods Hole are collaborating on deep-sea technologies that could be a model for exploring oceans on the moons of Jupiter and Saturn.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Melting ice, changing world

    Melting Arctic ice is opening the Northwest Passage, just a symptom of the accelerating warming in the Arctic and around the globe, speakers at a Radcliffe symposium on the oceans said.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    A chance to soar, through science

    At a pair of events, Cambridge eighth-graders presented projects they researched while at Harvard.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    A whale of a tale

    Great whales’ microbiome shares characteristics with both plant eaters and predators, study finds.

    6 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Getting to know the lab

    High school students have a chance to see how science works, and a role in research, through the CRLS Marine Science Internship program at Harvard.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Harvard professor explores marine biology with teens

    Peter Girguis, professor of organismic and evolutionary biology, hosted nearly two dozen Cambridge Rindge & Latin School students on Harvard’s campus for a discussion about the various career paths available in marine science.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Insights for high school students

    Three Cambridge Rindge and Latin School students who interned in Harvard’s marine biology labs during the spring recently shared their semester-long projects with their teachers, Harvard mentors, and family members.

    3 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Into the deep

    Cambridge Rindge and Latin School students talked with Harvard researchers using the deep-sea submarine Alvin to explore the Gulf of Mexico.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Getting to the source

    A team of Harvard researchers has demonstrated that the bacterium Rhodopseudomonas palustris can use natural conductivity to pull electrons from minerals located remotely in soil and sediment while remaining at the surface, where it absorbs the sunlight needed to produce energy.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    A successful community experiment

    A Harvard program that welcomes high school interns to learn science in the lab often sets them on new academic and career paths.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    A boost to international learning

    Eight faculty led programs designed to give students international experience have received grants from the President’s Innovation Fund for International Experiences.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Gauging the effects of the BP spill

    Research into the effects of last year’s massive BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico highlights the flexibility of the community of microbes living in the ocean’s depths.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Deep thinker

    Scientists are advancing in their understanding of the biology of the deep sea, which still remains largely unexplored and mysterious, according to Associate Professor Peter Girguis.

    6 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Waves and the waggle dance

    In a lecture, titled “Good Vibrations: How We Communicate” and hosted by Harvard’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Howard Stone, Dixon Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Princeton University and a former Harvard faculty member, enticed children and their families into the world of physics and biology.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Exploring abundance under the sea floor

    Called the North Pond Basin, the site — researchers at Harvard and beyond believe — can provide a window onto a vast world of subterranean microscopic life that extends kilometers below the Earth’s surface and which, according to rough estimates, could rival life above the surface in both diversity and sheer mass.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Exploring hidden life’s abundance

    Two miles below the surface of the Sargasso Sea lies a depression in the Earth’s crust filled with sediment and, scientists believe, teeming with life — exotic, microscopic, and very…

    6 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Students looking to light African night

    Some current and former Harvard students have joined forces in an effort to apply new technology to an old problem: how to light Africa’s rural areas far from modern power supplies.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Seabed microbe study leads to low-cost power, light for the poor

    A Harvard biology professor’s fascination with seafloor microbes has led to the development of a revolutionary, low-cost power system consuming garbage, compost, and other waste that could provide light for the developing world.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Newsmakers

    The Lindbergh Foundation recently named Assistant Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Peter Girguis one its 14 Lindbergh Grant recipients for 2007. ProCor, a global communication program promoting heart health founded by Harvard School of Public Health Professor of Cardiology Emeritus Bernard Lown, has granted its first Louise Lown Heart Hero Award to the Heart…

    1 minute
  • Nation & World

    Some like it hot: Deep-sea worms favor a fiery 45-55° c

    Scientists have found that worms dwelling at deep-sea hydrothermal vents opt for temperatures of 45-55 degrees Celsius (113-131 degrees Fahrenheit) when provided a choice of conditions, giving them the highest…

    3 minutes