Science
Discover the scientific breakthroughs and engineering innovations being pioneered across Harvard’s labs and centers.
A theatrical reenactment explores a 1976 clash between science and democracy.
Decoding Diabetes
Elizabeth Gudrais reports on how discoveries in genetics, cell metabolism, and the study of small molecules point the way to new therapies and perhaps a cure for diabetes.
Labs, Size Large
The new Northwest Science Building at Harvard
Stem-Cell Progress
Harvard researchers at the Stem Cell Institute achieve major breakthroughs.
What Makes the Human Mind?
Biological anthropologist Marc Hauser explores what he terms “humaniqueness”
World-Wide Web of Life
James Hanken of the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology and other scientists launch an ambitious project to chronicle all life on earth.
by Paul Gleason
A Durable Bubble
Mechanical engineering student Emilie Dressaire studies tiny bubbles that can last up to a year and replace fat droplets in ice cream.
by Paul Gleason
Tiktaalik Resurfaces
In today’s New York Times, science writer John Noble Wilford reports on new findings (to be published tomorrow in the journal Nature) about Tiktaalik roseae, a fossil fish that...
Martin Chalfie ’69, Ph.D. ’77, and Roger Y. Tsien ’72 Share Chemistry Nobel Prize
Fundamental work on the green fluorescent protein, isolated from jellyfish, is now a basic tool used to study biological processes...
$125-Million Gift for Bioengineering
Hansjörg Wyss, M.B.A. ’65 has given the University $125 million—the largest donation in its history—to create a research institute for biologically inspired engineering...
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...