Science
Discover the scientific breakthroughs and engineering innovations being pioneered across Harvard’s labs and centers.
Don’t Call Stephanie Pierce A Paleontologist
From competing in youth gymnastics to studying tetrapods, the Harvard curator has always chased her curiosity.
Science historian Sarah Richardson profiled by Bennett McIntosh
Historian and philosopher Sarah Richardson interrogates the science of sex and gender.
William Kaelin Wins Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Kaelin is the forty-ninth Harvard faculty member to win the Nobel.
Is Climate Change Ruining Fall?
Fewer cold nights could mean muted displays of fall color.
Harvard's Jerry X. Mitrovica Awarded MacArthur grant
The geophysicist has pioneered the understanding that sea-level rise around the globe will vary significantly depending on crustal dynamics and gravitational forces.
Neural-Network Pioneer Yann LeCun on AI and Physics
The physics department confers its Loeb lectureship on an influential non-physicist.
There’s (Still) No Gay Gene
Genes seem to play a role in determining sexual orientation, but it’s small, uncertain, and complicated.
Scholars Advocate “Managed Retreat” from Flooding Coastlines
The question is no longer if, but when and how.
Crows Know How to Have Fun
Surprising research about highly adept birds making and using tools
The Talent for Aging Well
George E. Vaillant's generational research on Harvard men unveils the differences that distinguish the "happy-well" from the "sad-sick" in later life.
Hansjörg Wyss boosts biologically inspired engineering
The Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering gets another boost.