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
Harvard National Academy of Medicine Members
Newly elected members include a dozen Harvard faculty affiliates.
Life After Brain Injury
Alumna Carolyn Gold on finding a “new self” after West Nile encephalitis
Can Slime Molds Think?
A seemingly primitive creature’s complex ability to detect mass from a distance.
Optimizing Public-School Spending
Home prices are a bellwether of efficient spending in local schools
China’s Excess Wind Energy
Rather than shutting down turbines, China can harness surplus wind energy to make “green” hydrogen fuel and industrial chemicals.
by Jacob Sweet
The Mystery of Smell
COVID-19 shines a spotlight on a once-obscure field of science.
Speaking Pheromone
How science is done, in the lab of E.O. Wilson
Seven Harvard Affiliates Named HHMI Investigators
The designation comes with $9 million in research support
A Gene Therapy Breakthrough
A uniquely interdisciplinary lab has developed a new technique to deliver targeted gene therapies.
Harvard Scientists’ Leadership in Fighting Infectious Diseases
Dan Barouch awarded $24.5 million for HIV research, Marc Lipsitch named to national center for public health forecasting