Sean Ono Lennon talks human empathy, AI with Harvard fellows
The singer-songwriter, who recently released a concept album threaded with AI skepticism, appeared with two Harvard-affiliated researchers on the Singing for Science podcast.
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How your cells make a molecule you can buy as a supplement
Researchers in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology combined biophysics, structural biology, and simulation to solve a manufacturing question.
Lab-grown brain ‘organoids’ set longevity record
In a new milestone for stem cell research, Harvard neuroscientists have set a record for keeping alive lab-grown human brain “organoids” and proven that they mimic key developmental stages seen in living people.
Haim Sompolinsky wins top physics prize
The Harvard theoretical physicist and neuroscientist has won the Dirac Medal and Prize, one of the highest honors in physics.
Where undergrads grow into scientists
Deep in the woods of Petersham, Mass., the Harvard Forest Summer Research Program in Ecology is cultivating a renewable resource — future generations of scientists.
For a closer look at the sun, scientists ready 5,000-pound device for balloon launch
Forget about the ancient Greek myth of Icarus. For the last 10 years, Jenna Samra, Ph.D. ’18, and her colleagues have been pushing technology to fly closer to the hottest part of the sun. Samra, an astrophysicist at the Center for Astrophysics, an institution jointly run by Harvard and the Smithsonian, leads a scientific quest to study the solar corona.
Valeria Luiselli’s ‘deep dive into mother-daughter relationships’
The incoming professor of English’s fourth novel, “Beginning Middle End,” follows a mother and her 12-year-old daughter as they travel to Sicily, where the duo is figuring out how to reconstruct their lives amid their encounters with the island’s daily life, its winds, waters, and volcanoes.
Student musical evolves into feature film ‘Death Do Us Part’
What happens when a healer, working in a plague-stricken medieval village, falls in love with Death himself? Moviegoers can soon find out when a black-comedy romance, which began as a Harvard College student production, lands on the big screen. “Death Do Us Part,” co-directed by Abigail Ory ’21 and David Chávez-Grant ’21, premieres at the Rhode Island International Film Festival August 9.
Chemist’s fix for a stubborn biomanufacturing problem? Engineer the liquid, not the machine
FluxBio’s near-term focus is to help biomanufacturers get more out of the reactors they already own.
Federal Reserve taps four Harvard economists to serve
Task force leadership is “a mandate to follow the evidence, provide candid feedback, and produce rigorous findings.”
Octopus cells pack ‘real surprise’ for biologists
Harvard biologists have discovered a mysterious distinction at the core of the octopus‘ cellular biology that appears to be unique in the animal kingdom.