Tag: Robin Wordsworth

  • Nation & World

    New ideas for global warming solutions win $1M in funding

    Nine research teams will share $1 million in the seventh round of Climate Change Solutions Fund awards for proposals that create critical knowledge, propel novel ideas, and lead progress toward solutions that can be applied at Harvard and around the world.

    10 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Picturing early Mars

    Professor Robin Wordsworth explains why the just-announced landing site for the 2020 Mars rover mission has a lot to offer SEAS researchers.

    2 minutes
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  • Nation & World

    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.

    8 minutes
  • Nation & World

    A watery Mars, a changed outlook

    One of the lessons from this week’s announcement of liquid water on Mars is that the Red Planet is a much more diverse place than previously thought, one that holds a multitude of niche environments that might be more hospitable to life than average planetary conditions might indicate, said Professor Robin Wordsworth.

    7 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Unveiling the ancient climate of Mars

    The high seas of Mars may never have existed. According to a new study that looks at two opposite climate scenarios of early Mars, a cold and icy planet billions of years ago better explains water drainage and erosion features seen today.

    5 minutes