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

by Olivia Farrar

Harvard’s Jerry Mitrovica explains how Earth dynamics connect to climate

Connecting climate change to the planet’s shifting crust

by Jonathan Shaw

Bee hunting with Thomas D. Seeley: an excerpt from "Following the Wild Bees"

Thomas D. Seeley on the craft and science of bee hunting

Harvard's New England plant collections published online

Digitized herbaria collections data allow researchers to predict future plant ranges.

by Jonathan Shaw

Harvard researchers find evidence of China's Great Flood

Researchers unearth geological evidence to support one of the country’s earliest folk legends.

by Lydialyle Gibson

Naomi Oreskes on How to Write about Science

Naomi Oreskes on climate change, politics, and advice for science journalists

by Marina N. Bolotnikova

Are Hospital Pay-for-Performance Programs Failing?

Harvard researchers ask whether market incentives can improve healthcare. 

by Marina N. Bolotnikova

New Study Calls Subway Germs Mostly Harmless

Curtis Huttenhower and colleagues analyze bugs on Boston’s T.

by Aidan Langston

Harvard Study Shows How Antibiotics Disrupt Babies’ Microbiomes

Killing good bugs as well as bad may harm early immune “education,” say Harvard scientists.

by Lydialyle Gibson

Bacteria Could Help Prevent Malaria, New Harvard Study Finds

Harvard scientists find Wolbachia protective.

by Aidan Langston

Why evolution favors sex

Sex preserves beneficial mutations, and allows harmful ones to be purged.

by Erin O’Donnell