Harvard astrophysicist on the James Webb Telescope

Harvard astrophysicist details the most ambitious space probe NASA ever built.

Juan Siliezar • harvard
Dec. 16, 2021 ~7 min

Spacecraft enters sun’s corona for first time in history

An instrument made by scientists and engineers at the Center for Astrophysics has helped verify that — for the first time in history — a spacecraft has entered the corona of the sun.

Nadia Whitehead • harvard
Dec. 14, 2021 ~5 min


Harvard scientist on why that song is stuck in your head

David Silbersweig, Stanley Cobb Professor of Psychiatry and co-director of the Center for the Neurosciences at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, explains how earworms take hold of the brain.

Harvard Gazette • harvard
Dec. 14, 2021 ~4 min

Goals of Kempner Institute are ‘very hard’

Scholars across University say Harvard is well-suited to the challenge owing to breadth, size of intellectual resources, experience.

Alvin Powell • harvard
Dec. 9, 2021 ~14 min

New Harvard institute to study natural, artificial intelligence

University-wide initiative made possible by gift from Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg.

Alvin Powell • harvard
Dec. 7, 2021 ~18 min

Daniel Kahneman on how to influence others

Nobel-winning behavioral economist and author of “Thinking Fast and Slow” shares advice on negotiation at Harvard event.

Caitlin McDermott-Murphy • harvard
Dec. 6, 2021 ~6 min

Harvard-led team takes step in quest for quantum computing

Harvard researchers observe a state of matter predicted and hunted for 50 years, but never previously observed.

Juan Siliezar • harvard
Dec. 2, 2021 ~7 min

Harvard researchers explore superconductor possibilities

Never-before-seen electron behavior could help scientists create superwires for supercharged technology.

Caitlin McDermott-Murphy • harvard
Dec. 2, 2021 ~6 min


Harvard astrophysicist on NASA’s mission to head off Armageddon

Jonathan McDowell of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics explains the science and objectives guiding the agency’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test.

Colleen Walsh • harvard
Nov. 30, 2021 ~9 min

Harvard welcomes Elizabeth Kolbert for climate talk

New Yorker writer Elizabeth Kolbert and Planetary Health Alliance Director Samuel Myers discussed whether humans can save the Earth during a “Weather Reports” panel hosted by the Harvard Divinity School.

Clea Simon • harvard
Nov. 19, 2021 ~5 min

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