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Charles Lieber's nanoscale transistors can enter cells without harming them

Chemist Charles Lieber and his colleagues have developed a nanoscale transistor so small it can enter, probe, and communicate with cells without harming them.

by Jonathan Shaw

Letters from our readers

The psyche, kindergarten, more mushroom verse

The film "Black Swan" has Harvard creators behind it

A tense thriller, with ballerinas

by Craig Lambert

Quotation Q&A

Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words

Year-end humor with a Harvard angle

Elena Kagan, Mark Zuckerberg, and Drew Faust's hard-charging, softball-playing daughter

A gathering of Harvard Asian American Alumni from across six decades

A three-day summit draws more than 400 participants from across six decades.

by Sarah Zhang

Video: a clip from "Black Swan," starring Natalie Portman '03

View a clip from Black Swan, starring Natalie Portman ’03 and directed by Darren Aronofsky ’91.

Provost Steven Hyman to step down after a decade of service

The overseer of interdisciplinary scholarship and Harvard's affiliated institutions concludes a decade of service.

Harvard's libraries adopt new administrative structure

Management of the Harvard University Library will be consolidated under a single director.

Harvard University governance to change

For the senior governing board, an expanded membership, term limits, and a fresh focus on the University’s strategic opportunities and challenges

Condoleezza Rice urges keeping Africa on the U.S. foreign-policy agenda

The United States should support democratic governance and responsible sovereigns, the former secretary of state says in a speech at the Kennedy School.

Image gallery from the 2010 Harvard-Yale football game

A gallery of images from the 2010 Harvard-Yale football game