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Shopping Week, Day Four: Me Want Food!
Sometimes shopping six courses a day can lead to missed meals and hunger pangs during your umpteenth syllabus perusal of the day. In fact, some of you are probably hungry right now. Well, we’ve got just the solution for you! Get your daily serving via one of these food-related courses.
Chronic Sleep Loss Causes Slowed Reaction Time
Researchers at Harvard-affiliate Brigham and Women's Hospital find that chronic sleep loss over several weeks causes reaction time to slow almost tenfold, increasing the risk of fatigue-related accidents.
Looking at Time and Teeth
Children examine models of teeth and skulls at the Harvard Museum of Natural History after listening to archaeologist Tanya Smith's talk on how studying teeth can lead to insights in human development.
Scientists Employ Quantum Computer
In a groundbreaking feat of computation, a team of international scientists—including Harvard researchers—have calculated the precise energy of a hydrogen molecule using a quantum computer.
Harvard Researchers Use Innovative Method to Follow Genetic Footprint
A team of Harvard researchers have recently developed a novel way to pinpoint, with greater accuracy than ever before, genetic mutations that drive evolution—and the new method of examining natural selection’s footprint may have tremendous implications for biomedicine and studies of human evolutionary history.
BRIEF: Harvard Researchers Discover 'Super-Earth'
Harvard researchers have discovered a "super-Earth" orbiting a red dwarf star 40 light-years from Earth with telescopes no larger than those used by amateur stargazers.
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Carole Hooven, lecturer in Human Evolutionary Biology (left) and Mary Ruggie, adjunct professor of public policy at the Kennedy School (right), along with Mary Ellen Galante (not pictured), a Cambridge-area midwife, discuss the medical and cultural perception of the female body at "Deviant Bodies," an event sponsored by the Harvard Women's Center.
meteorshower
Some Winthropians and Kirklanders gather on the Quad Lawn in order to find some peace and quiet in which to stargaze and watch the Lenoid Meteor Shower. The showers peaked at 4 am.
Physicists Create Microscope
Members of Harvard’s physics department have created a quantum gas microscope that allows atoms to be observed individually at a temperature of five billionths of a degree above absolute zero.
Using Religion to Go Green
Adorned in a full-length clerical robe with a Bible in hand, Reverend Robert J. Mark, a McDonald Fellow at Memorial ...
Gore's Latest Book Focuses on Solutions
Former Vice President Al Gore ’69 spoke to a packed audience about his latest book “Our Choice: A Plan To ...
New 'Lab at Harvard' Opens
Kicking a soccer ball often causes a throbbing toe and a loss of energy upon impact. But with Soccket—an idea ...
Neurobiology Looks To Shed Light On Vision, Art
If you ask a child how they see, they say they open their eyes. Simple enough. But what if you ask the child what’s going on in the eye?
