An algorithm to detect gerrymandering

Harvard team’s tool maps out thousands of nonpartisan options, simulates outcomes, holds up results to those of proposed plans.

Juan Siliezar • harvard
Nov. 3, 2022 ~10 min

Harvard researchers provide stronger proof of plate tectonics billions of years ago

Scientists detect fast-moving plate tectonics and flipped magnetic poles on early Earth.

Juan Siliezar • harvard
Oct. 24, 2022 ~7 min


Researchers design new experiments to map and test the quantum realm

Professor Kang-Kuen Ni and her team have collected real experimental data from an unexplored quantum frontier, providing strong evidence of what the theoretical model got right (and wrong) and a roadmap for further exploration into the shadowy next layers of quantum space.

Caitlin McDermott-Murphy • harvard
May 19, 2021 ~7 min

Tech breakthrough combines motion capture and neural learning

Harvard researchers develop a new motion-tracking system that delivers an unprecedented look at how animals move and behave naturally.

Juan Siliezar • harvard
Feb. 25, 2021 ~7 min

Reconstructing vertebrates rise from the water to land

Harvard scientists reconstruct evolution of limb-based motion in early tetrapods.

Juan Siliezar • harvard
Nov. 25, 2020 ~6 min

Cracking the case of the missing molecules

When scientists moved from manipulating atoms to messing with molecules, molecules started to disappear from view. Professor Kang-Kuen Ni has figured out why.

Caitlin McDermott-Murphy • harvard
July 22, 2020 ~6 min

African grey parrot outperforms children and college students

African grey parrot Griffin shows off his brain power, making students doubt their own.

Juan Siliezar • harvard
July 2, 2020 ~7 min

Genetic research offers insight into rise of first cities

Genomic analysis shows long-term genetic mixing in West Asia before the rise of the world’s first cities

Juan Siliezar • harvard
May 29, 2020 ~8 min


How a grad student choreographs life in science and art

Ph.D. student Frederick Moss brings together the incongruous worlds of science and art.

Caitlin McDermott-Murphy • harvard
Jan. 30, 2020 ~6 min

Harvard Museum of Natural History gives hands-on lab work to middle school educators

Mansi Srivastava's lab worked with middle school teachers in an education workshop on DNA and evolution.

Harvard Gazette • harvard
July 30, 2019 ~2 min

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