Science

Discover the scientific breakthroughs and engineering innovations being pioneered across Harvard’s labs and centers.

To Promote Healthy Habits in Patients, Start with the Doctors

Why Harvard Medical School is training physicians to think more like coaches

by Jonathan Shaw

Brain Mapping Suggests How Memories are Stored

A decade-long project to map a cubic millimeter of human brain reveals previously unimagined architectures.

by Jonathan Shaw

Listening to Sperm Whales

After listening to leviathans, an undergraduate comes to conservation.  

by Jonathan Shaw

Clean Tech Innovation Against U.S.-China Relations

How will China’s rapid growth in the clean technology industry reshape U.S.-China relations?

by Olivia Farrar

Harvard Hosts Second “Climate Action Week”

Can urgent questions facing the world’s prime polluting industries be addressed through politics and policy?

by Jonathan Shaw

Harvard Physicians on the Digital Healthcare Revolution

How much will the future of medicine be shaped by new technologies?

by Olivia Farrar

New Research on the Sun's Protective Heliosphere

Millions of years ago, cosmic phenomena exposed Earth to the great wide open.

by Jack R. Trapanick

A Ray of Light amid Middle East Devastation

Harvard’s Lisa Randall on Israeli and Palestinian scientists working together

by Olivia Farrar

Six Decades of Computer Science at Harvard

Reflections on six decades of relations with computers

by Harry R. Lewis

Can Humans Learn to Speak “Whale”?

Project CETI’s pioneering effort to unlock the language of sperm whales was launched at Harvard.

by Jonathan Shaw

How Schizophrenia Resembles the Aging Brain

The search for schizophrenia’s biological basis reveals an unexpected link to cellular changes seen in aging brains.

by Ann Thomas