Harvard course takes students to the bottom of the ocean

OEB 119 students are patched in via livestream and a satellite call to a team of researchers leading an exploration on the seafloor.

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Reconstructing vertebrates rise from the water to land

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

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When ice sheets melt, it’s a seesaw effect

Ice sheets thousands of kilometers apart influence each other through sea level changes.

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Harvard alumna and researchers ID gene critical to floral nectar spurs

Researchers discover gene controlling nectar spur development, opening door for insights into evolution.

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Octopus’ suction cups hold its taste and touch sensors

Harvard researchers uncover novel family of sensors in octopuses.

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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.

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Research shows lullabies in any language relax babies

Researchers at Harvard’s Music Lab have determined that American infants relaxed when played lullabies that were unfamiliar and in a foreign language.

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Harvard researchers make sense of ancient fossils using 3D

Harvard and Chinese scientists study Cambrian fossils using micro-CT and 3D models.

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GenderSci Lab finds more than biology influences COVID risk

The GenderSci Lab at Harvard finds that more men than women are dying of COVID-19.

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Emily Balskus wins Waterman Award with $1M in research funding

Emily Balskus has won the Alan T. Waterman Award, the National Science Foundation's most prestigious prize for scientists under 40 in the United States.

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