Tag: Rocks

  • Campus & Community

    What rocks can teach

    The Harvard Museum of Natural History has opened its renovated Earth and Planetary Sciences gallery, linking the fantastic mineral displays to the story of the Earth and the work of faculty members who conduct research on geological processes.

  • Campus & Community

    Renaissance man

    A veteran Italian-American chef, Rosario Del Nero rediscovers the joys of learning at the Extension School, and wins an academic prize.

  • Arts & Culture

    Boulders that bowl over

    A new exhibit at Gund Hall shows how rocks are used to shape landscape design and to create art.

  • Science & Tech

    Mars’ water appears to have been too salty to support life

    A new analysis of the Martian rock that gave hints of water on the Red Planet — and, therefore, optimism about the prospect of life — now suggests the water was more likely a thick brine, far too salty to support life as we know it. The finding, by scientists at Harvard University and Stony…