Science

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

Illustration of diverse healthcare professionals around a central medical cross symbol.

AI Outperforms Doctors in Emergency Room Tasks, New Harvard Study Shows

Researchers say the technology could help physicians with triage, diagnosis.

by Jonathan Shaw

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.

Professor Dyann Wirth leads the Harvard Malaria Initiative.

Fighting malaria with evolutionary biology and genomics

Harvard scientists are using genomic tools to fight newly resurgent malaria.

by Courtney Humphries

Wavelength scale grating (above) on the facet of a tiny semiconductor laser (below) creates multiple laser beams parallel to the original.

Physicists Capasso and Yu make many lasers from one

Harvard researchers have developed multibeam, multiwavelength miniature lasers.

by Jonathan Shaw

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.

Reviews of "The Checklist Manifesto" by Atul Gawande

The Checklist Manifesto explores checklists as a tool for preventing error in medicine, aviation, and elsewhere.

Advancing toward a universal flu vaccine

Researchers may have found the viruses' Achilles heel

by Jonathan Shaw

If it were not for an elegant design, your DNA might be a tangle of crossed lines and knots. Graduate student Erez Lieberman-Aiden was part of a team that discovered how the genome packs information accessibly into a tiny ball of hierarchical folds.

Genomic architecture

Harvard and UMass researchers elucidate DNA's ability to file data and fit into the nucleus.

by Courtney Humphries

Kerr practices outside to “feel the sensations of the sun and wind and the ground beneath my feet.”

Researchers study tai chi benefits

Researchers study the benefits of this mind-body exercise.

by Nell Porter-Brown

Nanoscience in photographs

In words and images, George M. Whitesides and Felice. C. Frankel explicate tools, concepts, and applications in nanoscience.