Science

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

A black primate hanging lazily on a branch in a lush green forest.

What Bonobos Teach Us About Female Power and Cooperation

A Harvard scientist expands our understanding of our closest living relatives.

by Annie Roth

The Teen Brain

It’s a paradoxical time of development. These are people with very sharp brains, but they’re not quite sure what to do with them...

by Debra Bradley Ruder

Proof Positive

Richard L. Taylor’s work connects two discrete domains of mathematics: curved spaces, from geometry, and modular arithmetic, which has to do with counting...

by Elizabeth Gudrais

This unorthodox de-mining team avoids most of the traditional pitfalls. Metal detectors give too many false alarms, fooled by bullets or other debris. Hand-held ground-penetrating radar machines are too expensive. Dogs weigh enough to trigger mines, injuring or killing themselves and their handlers.

Man, Mongoose, and Machine

Standing outside a Sri Lankan army base in the spring of 2007, Thrishantha Nanayakkara mapped an entire minefield without once setting foot in it.

by Paul Gleason

Doing Community Medicine

A few years ago, instructor of medicine Pieter Cohen began noticing a strange pattern of symptoms among some of his Brazilian immigrant patients...

A Startling Achievement in Regenerative Medicine

Douglas Melton, co-director of the Harvard Stem Cell Institute, has figured out how to transform one type of cell in a living animal into another, using...

A Startling Achievement in Regenerative Medicine

Douglas Melton, co-director of the Harvard Stem Cell Institute, has figured out how to transform one type of cell in a living animal into another, using a new process his research team has dubbed “direct reprogramming”...

Scary Superbugs

The article documents how, and why, we are losing the war against these powerful microbes. Hospitals and doctors have overused "last-resort" antibiotics, leading to...

Harvard scientists create first disease-specific human stem cell lines

Kevin Eggan, an assistant professor of stem-cell and regenerative biology, announced in Science that he had used the technique to create...

XDR-TB Can Be Treated

More than 60 percent of HIV-negative XDR -TB patients in the study, which was conducted in home and community-based settings in Peru...

Researchers Identify Autism Genes

Researchers at the Harvard-affiliated Broad Institute have identified six genes they believe play a crucial role in autism...