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
The Secrets of Haiti’s Living Dead
A Harvard botanist investigates mystic potions, voodoo rites, and the making of zombies.
Gut Health May Begin in the Mouth
Oral bacteria can lodge in the gut and trigger inflammatory bowel conditions.
Brendan Meade studies earthquakes using artificial neural networks
Machine learning may raise the potential for predicting where—and when—an earthquake might strike.
How climate change can change crop nutrition
How global warming can change crop nutrition
Stuart Harris and wilderness medicine at Harvard
Stuart Harris and the austere practice of wilderness physicians
Building RoboBees: How Harvard Engineers Are Revolutionizing Micro-Robotics
The push to build flying, thinking, robot swarms
The Bruce Telescope Rediscovered
The telescope that helped define Earth’s place in the universe
The polar vortex produced rapid evolution in lizards
How the polar vortex produced rapid evolution in lizards
David Sinclair’s anti-aging science
Can a single molecule extend lifespan?
Seeing the the Invisible World of Microbes
On Earth, microbes run the show.