Science & Technology
Radcliffe Institute Announces 2025-2026 Fellows
Scholars pursue projects ranging from reducing ethnic violence to searching for an undiscovered super-Earth.
by Olivia Farrar
The Cell’s Power Plant
Probing the mysteries of mitochondria, Vamsi Mootha discovers new ways to understand metabolic disease.
by Jonathan Shaw
Harvard in the Heartland
President Bacow listens (and builds partnerships) in Michigan.
by John S. Rosenberg
Ranking Extinctions by Ecological Impact
New research on extinctions shows that their ecological impact can’t be measured in numbers of species lost.
by Jonathan Shaw
William Morris Davis
Brief life of William Morris Davis, pioneering geomorphologist
by Philip S. Koch
Lowell Kinetic Sculpture Race
Watch human-powered machines prevail—or not—in Lowell.
by Nell Porter-Brown
Visualizing the World at the Harvard Map Collection
Maps can be applied to straightforward ends; they can also be fanciful, surprising, or plain weird.
by Marina N. Bolotnikova
Is Arsenic a Key Ingredient in the Battle Against Cancer?
Despite its toxic reputation, arsenic may play a key role in the battle against cancer.
by Oset Babür
The Brain in the Basement
The Center for Green Buildings and Cities aims to reduce energy used to heat and cool buildings to nearly zero.
by Jonathan Shaw
The “Global Chemical Experiment”
Elsie Sunderland traces the flows of human pollutants in the oceans. They come back to bite us.
by Courtney Humphries
A Particulate Problem
Harvard researchers revisit and reaffirm a controversial environmental study.
by Oset Babür