Science
Discover the scientific breakthroughs and engineering innovations being pioneered across Harvard’s labs and centers.
From Jellyfish to Digital Hearts
How Harvard researchers are helping to build a virtual model of the human heart
A Crossroads in Biomedicine?
Uncertainty and humanity could be key to addressing the reproducibility crisis.
Manuscripts Illuminated…by Women
Tracing lapis lazuli provides evidence that women were directly involved in creating medieval illuminated manuscripts.
Harvard Medical School’s Bruce Walker studies “elite controllers” of HIV
The immune systems of “elite controllers” point to HIV’s vulnerabilities.
Blavatnik gift accelerates Harvard Medical School research
A $200-million gift from the Blavatnik Family Foundation paves the way.
Profile of Daniela Lamas, a critical-care physician
Daniela Lamas and the practice of post-ICU care
Confronting pitfalls of machine learning, artificial intelligence
Ethics and the dawn of decision-making machines
Climate Change Portends Diminishing Potential for Wind Power
Diminishing winds may be a harbinger of further climate-change damage to come.
Harvard Pushes to Advance Basic and Applied Quantum Physics
Harvard thinks bigger about the odd realm of matter at the very smallest scale.
Harvard Medical Record $200 Million Research Gift
Foundation of Len Blavatnik, M.B.A. ’89, makes record pledge for basic and applied science.
Genetics and the Human Revolution
Can advances in DNA sequencing help explain what makes us human?