Science

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

A bioengineered virtual human heart overlaid with jellyfish-like structures, symbolizing cardiac designs inspired by jellyfish motion

From Jellyfish to Digital Hearts

How Harvard researchers are helping to build a virtual model of the human heart

by Olivia Farrar

The Asiatic lily, <i>Lilium casablanca.</i>

Harvard's L. Mahadevan on What Makes an Asiatic Lily Bloom

Lakshminarayanan Mahadevan has solved another everyday secret: what makes the Asiatic lily bloom.

President Drew Faust moderates a February 22 discussion of the human genome map's impact in the 10 years since its first publication. Also shown are panelists Margaret Hamburg ’77, M.D. ’83, commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, and Eric Lander, president and founding director of the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT and professor of systems biology at Harvard Medical School.

Scientists examine the impact of the human genome map, 10 years later

A panel of scientists examines the impact of a landmark discovery.

Louis Kunkel in his laboratory at Children’s Hospital

Louis Kunkel’s 30-year quest to diagnose and cure muscular dystrophy

Louis Kunkel’s 30-year quest to diagnose and cure muscular dystrophy

by Victor McElheny

Scientists confirm Vladimir Nabokov's theory about butterfly migration

Harvard biologist Naomi Pierce confirms the Russian author's theory about the winged creatures' migration and evolution.

President Faust kicks off the "Harvard in Motion" walking and running program

Kicking off a program that aims to make Harvard and the surrounding community less sedentary

Video: tour the human skull and learn how shoes affect a runner's gait

Take a tour of the human skull, and learn how shoes affect a runner's gait, with Daniel Lieberman.

Video: computerized tests evaluate people's risk of attempting suicide

Learn about computerized tests that evaluate whether someone is at risk of attempting suicide. Plus, related links and an article from the magazine archives.

Video: see the plants and animals Harvard climatologists encountered in Brazil

In this video, travel to Brazil with Harvard climatologists to see their work and the plants and critters they encountered.

Video tour of a game that helps children with anger issues handle their emotions

Researchers at Children's Hospital Boston develop a video game to help children with anger problems handle their emotions. See how it works.

Matthew Nock sits in his lab’s control room, where researchers record subjects’ behavioral and physiological responses during experiments. For example, they might measure whether people who engage in self-injury show greater emotional distress, in response to frustrating tasks, than people who do not. (Nock’s lab manager and a postdoctoral fellow are seen in the adjoining room through one-way glass.)

Matthew Nock studies suicide and self-injury

Understanding suicide and self-injury

by Elizabeth Gudrais