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

Carl Schoonover and "Portraits of the Mind" merge science and aesthetics

Carl Schoonover ’06 merges science and aesthetics.

by Sarah Zhang

E.O. Wilson is coauthor of two new ant books

In two new books, E.O. Wilson and his coauthors introduce pioneer myrmecologist José Celestino Mutis, and the ants that are "the most complex socially of all animals, except for humans."

by Spencer Lee Lenfield

George Whitesides lab snuffs small flames with electricity

Harvard scientists have discovered how to extinguish flames by pushing them off their fuel source with an electric field.

by Jonathan Shaw

Shelly Greenfield's research finds gender differences in recovery from addiction

Studying the differences in addiction and recovery between men and women

by Elizabeth Gudrais

Photographer David Arnold and others document coral reefs in decline

The world's most fragile marine ecosystems are in decline.

by Jonathan Shaw

Video: Clues in the blood: scientists explain the emerging field of metabolomics

Video: scientists explain the emerging field of metabolomics.

“Water cooler" effect may improve scientific research

Proximity appears to foster quality.

Metabolomics, the study of metabolites, provides telling clues to future health

The study of metabolites does an end run around genomics to provide telling clues to your future health.

by Jonathan Shaw

Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering makes a fast start

Harvard’s Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering has made a fast start.

by Courtney Humphries

Excerpt: Joe Roman's "Listed: Dispatches from America's Endangered Species Act"

On learning from nature and the Endangered Species Act

by Joe Roman