Science
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.
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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?
Gay Men Attracted to Masculine Features
Gay men have the strongest sexual attraction to the most masculinized male faces, according to a study recently published online in the journal “Archives of Sexual Behavior.”
Art and Science: A Work in Progress
Harvard’s campus is no stranger to musical performances, but it has yet to play host to a piece that uses the human body as its score—at least, until the unveiling this Sunday of the Gigue project, which uses computer programs to measure and transform a person’s heartbeat into music.
Similar Venom Found in Two Species
Reptiles and mammals may represent different classes in the animal kingdom, but researchers in the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology have found that similar molecular changes cause both a lizard and a shrew to produce a toxin—a discovery that may shed light on similar changes that occur in other animals.
Cancer Survivors See Higher Incidence of Suicidal Thoughts
Childhood cancer survivors may be more prone to suffer suicidal thoughts later in life than those who have remained healthy throughout childhood, according to a study released last week by a team of Harvard Medical School researchers at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.
