Harvard’s Mark 1 finds its new home

After a yearlong delay, the landmark Harvard IBM Mark I Automatic Calculator shifts residences to its new Science and Engineering Complex in Allston.

Alvin Powell • harvard
July 23, 2021 ~8 min

Harvard professor discusses science in the military

History of Science Professor Naomi Oreskes examines the power of funding to shape science, for both better and worse, in her latest book, “Science on a Mission: How Military Funding Shaped What We Do and Don’t Know about the Ocean.”

Alvin Powell • harvard
July 22, 2021 ~20 min


Harvard researcher explains fire tornadoes

What is a fire tornado? Harvard’s Loretta Mickley sheds some light.

Alvin Powell • harvard
July 20, 2021 ~6 min

Study takes step toward finding cause of joint disease

A Harvard study could lead to potential therapeutics for one of the most prominent ailments of the elderly and one of the most prominent musculoskeletal defects in newborns.

Juan Siliezar • harvard
July 14, 2021 ~6 min

Faster high-quality imaging of living tissue

Dushan N. Wadduwage, a John Harvard Distinguished Science Fellow in imaging at the FAS Center of Advanced Imaging has detailed a new technique that would create high-quality, deep-tissue imaging of living subjects in a timely fashion.

Juan Siliezar • harvard
July 7, 2021 ~5 min

Harvard-led physicists create 256-qubit programmable quantum simulator

A Harvard-led team has created a 256-qubit programmable quantum simulator that represents the cutting edge in the world-wide quantum race.

Juan Siliezar • harvard
July 7, 2021 ~6 min

Study marks major step to creating a system to study quantum phase transitions

In 1934, physicist Eugene Wigner made a theoretical prediction that suggested how a metal that normally conducts electricity could turn into a nonconducting insulator when the density of electrons is reduced. Now a team of Harvard physicists has finally experimentally documented this transition.

Juan Siliezar • harvard
June 30, 2021 ~5 min

Wyss Institute develops face masks to detect COVID

A team of researchers from the Wyss Institute has found a way to embed synthetic biology reactions into fabrics, creating wearable biosensors that can be customized to detect pathogens and toxins and alert the wearer.

Lindsay Brownell • harvard
June 28, 2021 ~10 min


Gene editing shows promise as sickle cell therapy

Scientists at Harvard and the Broad Institute have demonstrated that it is possible to treat sickle cell disease in mice using a new gene-editing technique.

Juan Siliezar • harvard
June 28, 2021 ~6 min

At new Harvard lab, technology to serve the public

Public Interest Technology Lab brings together experts from across Harvard to pursue technologies that serve the interests of the public.

Ralph Ranalli • harvard
June 23, 2021 ~6 min

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