Faculty & Research
Research on Hold
Funding freeze halts Harvard projects overnight.
by Nina Pasquini
The Brain As Art
Carl Schoonover ’06 merges science and aesthetics.
by Sarah Zhang
Ants through the Ages
In two new books, E.O. Wilson and his coauthors introduce pioneer myrmecologist José Celestino Mutis, and the ants that are "the most complex socially of all animals, except for humans."
by Spencer Lee Lenfield
Peter Der Manuelian
Meet Harvard's resident Egyptologist.
Snuffing Flames with Electricity
Harvard scientists have discovered how to extinguish flames by pushing them off their fuel source with an electric field.
by Jonathan Shaw
Women and Alcohol
Studying the differences in addiction and recovery between men and women
by Elizabeth Gudrais
Swerves
Stephen Greenblatt traces the influence of Lucretius, through De Rerum Natura, on modern thought.
by Christian Flow
Reefs at Risk
The world's most fragile marine ecosystems are in decline.
by Jonathan Shaw
Talking About War—During a War on Osama bin Laden
President Drew Faust's Jefferson Lecture takes on an unexpected timeliness.
Throughways for Wildlife
A winning proposal to keep cars and critters apart
Video: Clues in the Blood
Video: scientists explain the emerging field of metabolomics.