Aging chimps show social selectivity
Understanding why older chimps tend to favor small circles of meaningful, established friendships rather than seek new ones may help scientists gain a better picture of what healthy human aging should look like and what triggers this social change.
Oct. 22, 2020 • ~7 min
Tags: science-technology faculty-of-arts-and-sciences fas science juan-siliezar aging chimpanzees department-of-human-evolutionary-biology alexandra-rosati kibale-chimpanzee-project lindsey-hagberg martin-n-muller melissa-emery-thompson richard-w-wrangham zarin-machanda
3D model seeks to explain mysterious hexagon storm on Saturn
Harvard researchers use a 3D model to figure out how a hexagon-shaped mega-storm on Saturn was formed.
Oct. 5, 2020 • ~8 min
Tags: science-technology faculty-of-arts-and-sciences juan-siliezar saturn department-of-earth-and-planetary-sciences hexagon-storm jeremy-bloxham rakesh-k-yadav
Harvard climate change expert discusses extreme heat
With the threat of extreme heat rising, from California to Siberia, we ask climate scientist Peter Huybers what to expect in the future.
Sept. 30, 2020 • ~7 min
Tags: science-technology climate-change faculty-of-arts-and-sciences harvard-john-a-paulson-school-of-engineering-and-applied-sciences peter-huybers juan-siliezar extreme-heat department-of-earth-and-planetary-sciences
How We Feel app pilots COVID prediction model
How We Feel app lays groundwork to use big data to understand and predict coronavirus infection.
Sept. 17, 2020 • ~9 min
Tags: faculty-of-arts-and-sciences institute-for-quantitative-social-science harvard-society-of-fellows health-medicine harvard-th-chan-school-of-public-health feng-zhang nature-human-behavior broad-institute-of-mit-and-harvard ben-silbermann gary-king how-we-feel-project xihong-lin harvard-department-of-statistics how-we-feel-app william-allen xin-jin
Curve on shoes makes walking easier, but may lead to foot problems
Toe springs in shoes make walking easier but may come at a cost.
Sept. 17, 2020 • ~7 min
Tags: science-technology faculty-of-arts-and-sciences juan-siliezar department-of-human-evolutionary-biology daniel-e-lieberman freddy-sichting mtp-joints nicholas-b-holowka oliver-b-hansen skeletal-biology-and-biomechanics-lab toe-springs
Joseph Henrich explores WEIRD societies
In new book Joe Henrich looks at how the West became psychologically peculiar and prosperous.
Sept. 16, 2020 • ~9 min
Tags: science-technology faculty-of-arts-and-sciences joseph-henrich department-of-human-evolutionary-biology weird
Harvard team uses laser to cool polyatomic molecule
Harvard researchers become the first to cool a polyatomic molecule using light.
Sept. 11, 2020 • ~8 min
Tags: science-technology quantum faculty-of-arts-and-sciences john-doyle juan-siliezar caoch3 debayan-mitra doyle-research-group molecule-calcium-monomethoxide nathaniel-b-vilas
Harvard researchers create hybrid algorithm for NMR readings
New quantum-classical algorithm brings nuclear magnetic resonance readings closer to “near-term” quantum computing.
July 24, 2020 • ~9 min
Tags: science-technology faculty-of-arts-and-sciences harvard-medical-school quantum-computers juan-siliezar brigham-and-womens-hospital dries-sels eugene-demler hesam-dashti nature-machine-intelligence nmr-spectroscopy olga-demler physics-department samia-mora
African grey parrot outperforms children and college students
African grey parrot Griffin shows off his brain power, making students doubt their own.
July 2, 2020 • ~7 min
Tags: science-technology faculty-of-arts-and-sciences graduate-school-of-arts-and-sciences juan-siliezar scientific-reports griffin irene-pepperberg african-grey-parrot harvard-psychology-department hrag-pailian justin-halberda susan-carey
Harvard bee experts discuss the murder hornet threat
Bee health experts Benjamin de Bivort and James Crall discuss the murder hornet threat and other dangers facing bees.
June 3, 2020 • ~9 min
Tags: science-technology bees faculty-of-arts-and-sciences benjamin-de-bivort james-crall juan-siliezar department-of-organismic-and-evolutionary-biology honeybees wild-bees asian-giant-hornet murder-hornet
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