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
Jerry Mitrovica explains the uneven rise in sea levels as glaciers melt
Deciphering sea levels
Gutenberg 2.0: What future for libraries?
Harvard’s libraries deal with disruptive change.
Nine Harvard faculty elected National Academy of Sciences
The disciplines represented range from economics and sociology to statistics, applied physics, and medicine.
Harvard in China: David Yoffie discusses emerging technologies
Remarks by David B. Yoffie
"Networked" Web Extra: video and Web-exclusive sidebars on network science
Slime mold demonstrates the power of networks, fanning out to solve a maze and construct a railway map. Video and Web-exclusive sidebars to accompany the feature article "Networked."
Dr. Keith Flaherty's Quest for a Miracle Cancer Drug
The New York Times profiles a Harvard Medical School lecturer's quest for a miracle drug that saves lives—and the lives lost along the way.
Fighting malaria with evolutionary biology and genomics
Harvard scientists are using genomic tools to fight newly resurgent malaria.
Physicists Capasso and Yu make many lasers from one
Harvard researchers have developed multibeam, multiwavelength miniature lasers.
Thoreau's Walden Pond dataset shows that climate change helps invasive species
This is what a new study by a team including Harvard scientists, using a Walden Woods dataset begun by Henry David Thoreau, suggests.
Amy Wagers Discovers a Regenerative Pathway in Blood
Aged blood stem cells in mice act young again when exposed to the circulation of a young mouse.