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
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
Harvard study proposes new way to probe universe before the Big Bang
Harvard researchers are proposing using a “primordial standard clock” as a probe of the primordial universe. The team laid out a method that may be used to falsify the inflationary theory experimentally.
April 18, 2019 • ~7 min
Harvard scientists develop way to identify topological materials
Though they have unusual properties that could be useful in everything from superconductors to quantum computers, topological materials are frustratingly difficult to predictably produce. To speed up the process, Harvard researchers in a series of studies develop methods for efficiently identifying new materials that display topological properties.
April 16, 2019 • ~7 min
Harvard scientists shed light on importance of black hole image
Researchers at the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) just unveiled the first-ever image of a black hole, which captures what EHT Director Sheperd Doeleman called “a one-way door from our universe.”
April 10, 2019 • ~6 min
Harvard scientists lead team revealing black hole
A years-long effort by dozens of researchers at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics reveals the first-ever image of a supermassive black hole.
April 10, 2019 • ~8 min
Did ‘Beowulf’ have one author? Researchers find clues in stylometry
Using a statistical approach known as stylometry, which analyzes everything from the poem’s meter to the number of times different combinations of letters show up in the text, a team of researchers found new evidence that “Beowulf” is the work of a single author.
April 8, 2019 • ~10 min
Harvard study unlocks a key to regeneration
Led by Assistant Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Mansi Srivastava, a team of researchers is shedding new light on how animals perform whole-body regeneration, and uncovering a number of DNA switches that appear to control genes used in the process.
March 14, 2019 • ~9 min
To control bedbugs, tell potential tenants about past infestations, study says
It might seem crazy for landlords to tell potential tenants about past bedbug infestations, but Alison Hill believes it will pay off in the long run. In a study, Hill found that while landlords would see a modest drop in rental income in the short term, they would make that money back in a handful of years, and the policies could dramatically slow the spread of the insects.
March 12, 2019 • ~7 min
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