Tag: Peter Reuell

  • Health

    Probing protein diversity

    A team of researchers has found that the stability plays a key role in the evolution of different protein structures.

  • Science & Tech

    Inequality’s influence

    A new study has found that, following momentary exposure to inequality, support for a “millionaire’s tax” dropped by more than 50 percent.

  • Science & Tech

    How the brain handles tools

    A new study shows that, despite having no experience using tools with their hands, the brains of people born without hands represent tools and hands much the same as seen in the brains of people born with hands.

  • Science & Tech

    From drinking straws to robots

    Inspired by arthropod insects and spiders, scientists George Whitesides and Alex Nemiroski have created a type of semi-soft robot capable of walking, using drinking straws, and inflatable tubing. The team was even able to create a robotic water strider capable of pushing itself along the water’s surface.

  • Campus & Community

    Inquiring minds rewarded

    Ideas in language, health, and astronomy are winners in this year’s Star Family Challenge, a grant that funds high-risk, high-reward research.

  • Science & Tech

    Figuring out superconductors

    A team of physicists has taken a crucial step toward understanding superconductors by creating a quantum antiferromagnet from an ultracold gas of hundreds of lithium atoms.

  • Campus & Community

    Sanes receives Gruber Neuroscience Prize

    Joshua R. Sanes, the Jeff C. Tarr Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology and founding director of the Center for Brain Science, has been named recipient of the 2017 Gruber Neuroscience Prize.

  • Health

    The power of picturing thoughts

    A new Harvard study shows that people create visual images to accompany their inner speech even when they are prompted to use verbal thinking, suggesting that visual thinking is deeply ingrained in the human brain.

  • Science & Tech

    Me, steal? Impossible

    New findings suggest a surprisingly common default in human behavior: the view that immoral actions are impossible.

  • Arts & Culture

    A hidden Declaration

    A discovery of the Declaration in the south of England set a pair of researchers on a two-year journey into American history.

  • Health

    Mom, dad set in their ways? Maybe it’s not their fault

    Research led by Hopi Hoekstra breaks new ground by uncovering links between the activity of specific genes and parenting differences across species

  • Campus & Community

    Dream journey

    Varsha Varman is a step closer to reaching her goals thanks in part to financial aid from Harvard.

  • Campus & Community

    ‘Innovative’ teaching is recognized

    Professors Elena Kramer and Martin Nowak have been named the recipients of the 2016 Fannie Cox Prize for Excellence in Science Teaching.

  • Health

    The machinery of hearing

    New research not only sheds new light on how hearing works, but could help clarify how it deteriorates over time.

  • Campus & Community

    FAS staff acknowledged for their contributions

    The dozens of FAS staff who gathered in University Hall on March 9 were honored as Dean’s Distinction award winners, with 59 recipients receiving a total of 61 awards.

  • Science & Tech

    Why sing to baby? If you don’t, you’ll starve

    A new study suggests that infant-directed song evolved as a way for parents to signal to children that their needs were being met, while leaving time for other tasks, like food foraging or caring for other offspring.

  • Science & Tech

    Making math more Lego-like

    A trio of Harvard researchers has developed a new 3-D pictorial language for mathematics with potential as a tool across a wide spectrum, from pure math to physics.

  • Science & Tech

    A mother’s influence

    Researchers have shown, for the first time, that chimpanzees learn certain grooming behaviors from their mothers. Once learned, chimps continued to perform the behavior long after the deaths of their mothers.

  • Health

    Gut details

    New findings have the potential to help researchers more accurately identify microbiome enzymes and quantify their relative abundance.

  • Science & Tech

    When bias hurts profits

    Based on data collected from a French grocery store chain, a new Harvard study has found that minority workers were far less efficient in a handful of important metrics when working with biased managers.

  • Science & Tech

    To advance sustainability, fight inequality, researcher says

    A new Harvard study argues that technological approaches to sustainability must be accompanied by efforts to reduce inequality.

  • Campus & Community

    Lab opens doors for an undergrad experience

    As part of Harvard’s Wintersession, a handful of freshmen got the chance to experience the reality of lab work by exploring how altering genes in yeast affected the cells’ functions.

  • Science & Tech

    Catalyzing discovery

    In a trio of studies published earlier this month, researchers have shown that the process of catalysis is more dynamic than previously imagined, and that molecular forces can vastly influence the process.

  • Science & Tech

    A revised portrait of psychopaths

    A study suggests that while psychopaths do feel regret, however, it doesn’t affect their choices.

  • Science & Tech

    Advance in high-pressure physics

    Nearly a century after it was theorized, Harvard scientists have succeeded in creating metallic hydrogen. In addition to helping scientists answer some fundamental questions about the nature of matter, the material is theorized to have a wide range of applications, including as a room-temperature superconductor.

  • Campus & Community

    Recognition for their discoveries

    Harvard physicists Cumrun Vafa and Andrew Strominger have been named winners of the 2017 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics in recognition of their groundbreaking work in a number of areas, including black hole theory, quantum gravity, and string theory.

  • Health

    Spotting speedy brain activity

    Using ultra-fast MRI scans, scientists are able to track rapid oscillations in brain activity that previously would have gone undetected, a development that could open the door to understanding fast-occurring cognitive processes that once appeared off-limits to scientists.

  • Science & Tech

    Diamonds are a lab’s best friend

    Using the atomic-scale quantum defects in diamonds known as nitrogen-vacancy centers to detect the magnetic field generated by neural signals, scientists working in the lab of Ronald Walsworth, a faculty member in Harvard’s Center for Brain Science and Physics Department, demonstrated a noninvasive technique that can show the activity of neurons.

  • Science & Tech

    Harvard students, meet the Stone Age

    Students taking part in a new freshman seminar class learn to appreciate the sophistication of Neanderthals by manufacturing their own stone tools from scratch.

  • Campus & Community

    Two Harvard scholars headed across the pond

    Two Harvard students were among those selected to receive prestigious Marshall Scholarships, which support up to two years of study in the United Kingdom.