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
Centennial Medalists 2015
The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences honors four distinguished alumni.
Francis J. Doyle III Appointed Engineering Dean
New leader of Harvard’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Climate-Change Solutions
A panel of experts debates the best path forward.
by Jonathan Shaw
The “Bionic Leaf ”
Harvard scientists find a way to convert solar energy into a liquid fuel.
by Jonathan Shaw
The Mr. Mom Switch
Locating the “command neurons that drive parental behavior”
by Erin O'Donnell
Harvard Portrait: Jelani Nelson
A theorist explores the limits to shrinking datasets.
by Jonathan Shaw
Toward Precision Medicine
Building scale in biomedical informatics
by Jonathan Shaw
Is Vitamin D a Wonder Pill?
Two Harvard studies investigate the nutrient's cancer-fighting properties.
by Sophia Nguyen
Vita: Thomas Nuttall
Brief life of a pioneering naturalist: 1786-1859
by John Nelson
Climate Change Heats Up
A campus focus on global warming
by John S. Rosenberg