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
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.
Harvard researchers find evidence of China's Great Flood
Researchers unearth geological evidence to support one of the country’s earliest folk legends.
Naomi Oreskes on How to Write about Science
Naomi Oreskes on climate change, politics, and advice for science journalists
Are Hospital Pay-for-Performance Programs Failing?
Harvard researchers ask whether market incentives can improve healthcare.
New Study Calls Subway Germs Mostly Harmless
Curtis Huttenhower and colleagues analyze bugs on Boston’s T.
Harvard Study Shows How Antibiotics Disrupt Babies’ Microbiomes
Killing good bugs as well as bad may harm early immune “education,” say Harvard scientists.
Bacteria Could Help Prevent Malaria, New Harvard Study Finds
Harvard scientists find Wolbachia protective.
A South Shore Finnish sauna draws a diverse crowd
The benefits of sweating at a traditional Finnish sauna in Pembroke, Massachusetts
Why evolution favors sex
Sex preserves beneficial mutations, and allows harmful ones to be purged.