Science

Discover the scientific breakthroughs and engineering innovations being pioneered across Harvard’s labs and centers.

A glowing orange sun with a star and a trailing gas cloud in space.

A Harvard Astrophysicist Explains the Bizarre Behavior of a Supergiant Star

The dimming and rapid rotation of Betelgeuse may be caused by a hidden companion.

by Saima Sidik

From left: Caroline Elkins, Annette Gordon-Reed, Ingrid Monson, and Andrew Strominger

Harvard Radcliffe Institute 2012-2013 fellows

Harvard’s advanced-study center plans 51 resident academics, artists

The human urge to create art appears magnificently in the Paleolithic paintings from roughly 30,000 years ago at Chauvet Cave, in southern France. Here, the Panel of the Horses.

Harvard sociobiologist E.O. Wilson on the origins of the arts

Sociobiologist E.O. Wilson on the evolution of culture

A large-scale map of protein interactions in fruit flies provides new ways to study disease.

Spyros Artavanis-Tsakonas has built the largest protein interaction map to date

A map of protein interactions in fruit flies provides new ways to study disease.

by Courtney Humphries

An extract of the blue evergreen hydrangea suppresses autoimmune reactions.

Malcolm Whitman reveals how an ancient Chinese remedy stops autoimmune disease

Malcolm Whitman reveals how the blue evergreen hydrangea stops autoimmune disease.

Dean of Harvard Medical School Jeffrey S. Flier

Harvard Medical School problems caring for research primates

Harvard Medical School's primate research center encounters repeated, serious lapses of proper procedure and safe animal care

by Carolyn Y. Johnson

Evelyn Hu and Joost Vlassak

Harvard mulls new undergraduate degrees in electrical and mechanical engineering

Harvard develops two new courses of study.

Red meat consumption linked to premature death in HSPH study

Study links red meat consumption to premature death

From left: Maya Jasanoff, Parimal Patil, Matthew Nock, Claudine Gay, and Robert Wood

Harvard professors project education research in 2036

Faculty of Arts and Science professors project 400th anniversary

Harvard study finds stem cells in ovaries grow eggs

The findings could have implications for treating infertility.

Genetic alterations allow researchers to observe the electrical firing of a neuron (pink) as a flash of light, detectable by specially modified optical microscopes.

In Adam Cohen's lab, neurons to light up as they fire

Harvard researchers create neurons that light up when they fire.

by Erin O’Donnell