Science

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

Don’t Call Stephanie Pierce A Paleontologist

From competing in youth gymnastics to studying tetrapods, the Harvard curator has always chased her curiosity.

by Laurel M. Shugart

GSAS and SEAS launch new applied science master's degree

The master’s in computational science and engineering launches in 2013.

Harvard awards eight honorary degrees at Commencement 2012

Eight awarded honorary degrees at 361st Commencement exercises

Harvard graduate school centennial medalists 2012

Graduate School of Arts and Sciences confers its 2012 Centennial Medals

Harvard Radcliffe Institute 2012-2013 fellows

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

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

Sociobiologist E.O. Wilson on the evolution of culture

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

Malcolm Whitman reveals how an ancient Chinese remedy stops autoimmune disease

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

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

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