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
Where Does Tuberculosis Hide?
The fight against an ancient scourge shifts to new battlegrounds...
Joanna Aizenberg
A bioengineer learns from sponges...
What Stress Reveals
Biologist Susan Lindquist investigates how HSP90 (heat-shock protein 90), a protein chaperone, provides a molecular mechanism that may help explain punctuated equilibrium in evolution...
Hubble space telescope photographs explained
The cosmic drama, as seen from a vantage in space: Harvard astronomers highlight important images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope
Catching Some Rays: Good for Your Heart?
CBS News has the story on a new study, led by Harvard School of Public Health professor Edward Giovannucci, that found that men with low Vitamin D levels had more than double the risk of heart attack...
Update: Chemistry Professor Wins Prize for Imaging Techniques
Professor of chemistry and chemical biology X. Sunney Xie, whose work is detailed in the cover story of our current issue, has won the Berthold Leibinger Research Prize for laser technology...
Treasure in the Genome’s Trash
The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard often grabs headlines for its discoveries about the genetics underlying such diseases as cancer, heart...
The Aging Brain
Looking at the effects of aging on healthy people's brains...
Climate Change Solutions?
Electrochemcial weathering: a new CO2 mitigation strategy...
Shedding Light on Life
The scenes are familiar from biology textbooks. A long string of DNA is copied to form a matching strand. A virus infects a cell by stealing through its membrane.