Senior research scientist Peter Del Tredici of Harvard’s Arnold Arboretum—see “The Living Dinosaur” by Jill Jonnes, from the November-December issue—has been studying the ancient tree species Ginkgo biloba since the 1980s. In this video, he explains some unusual features of the ginkgo and shows some living specimens of the tree, both full-size and bonsai, at the Arboretum.
“The Game” is celebrating its 140th year. We tiny-mic’d some Crimson supporters.
Harvard’s Lisa Randall on Israeli and Palestinian scientists working together
Project CETI’s pioneering effort to unlock the language of sperm whales
A proposed “green” swap enables decarbonization of emerging market development projects.
A former educator takes on one last big project: sheep farming
Historian Joyce E. Chaplin reinterprets an early era of invention, industrialization, and climate challenge
