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
Vita: Joseph T. Walker
Brief life of a scientific sleuth: 1908-1952
by Thomas W. Walker
Harvard Global Institute Grant Supports Climate-Change Research in China
The project’s central focus will be its research agenda.
by Laura Levis
Prize Patter
Run-up to this year's Ig Nobel ceremony: an on-the-scene report.
by Bailey Trela
Big Data Takes on Dengue Fever
A School of Public Health study uses cell-phone records to predict the spread of dengue fever.
by Zara Zhang
Design Engineering Debuts
Two Harvard faculties collaborate, aiming to solve real-world problems.
by John S. Rosenberg
New Light on Ancient Mars Climate
Researchers suspect ancient Martian climate was cold and icy.
by Zara Zhang
Mathematics from the Inside Out
Two practitioners consider the enterprise of pure mathematics.
by Avner Ash
William Cranch Bond
Brief life of Harvard's first astronomer: 1789-1859
by Alan Hirshfeld
“Seeking Strange Flowers”
An adventuresome Arnold Arboretum botanizer's heroics in 1920s China
by Peter DeMarco
Harvard Adds Five Computer Scientists to Faculty
Ballmer gift enables rapid expansion of computer science at the Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.
by Jonathan Shaw