Graduate student lands lunar samples to learn how moon was formed
A fourth-year graduate student in the lab of Professor of Geochemistry Stein Jacobsen, Yaray Ku is working on a project aimed at understanding how the moon formed, and to do it, she’s working with actual lunar samples.
Aug. 20, 2019 • ~5 min
Harvard study suggests racial tension may stem from fear of exposure to infectious diseases
A postdoctoral fellow working in the lab of Psychology Professor Matt Nock,Brian O’Shea is the lead author of a study that suggests racial tension may stem not from different groups being exposed to each other, but fear of a different sort of exposure — exposure to infectious diseases. The study is described in a July 15 paper published in Social Psychological and Personality Science.
Aug. 5, 2019 • ~4 min
Harvard study suggests asteroids might play key role in spreading life
Scientists at the Institute for Theory and Computation have made a comprehensive calculation suggesting that panspermia could happen, and have found that as many as 10 trillion asteroid-sized objects might exist that carry life.
July 8, 2019 • ~5 min
Study finds gap between rich and poor growing regionally too
Harvard research has found that separation between rich and poor communities has increased during the past 40 years.
May 2, 2019 • ~5 min
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