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Researcher Matthew Nock pioneered the technique of using smartphone technology to survey high-risk adults and adolescents in real time. In a new study, Nock and his team report using the technology to predict 75 percent of suicide attempts in the week before they occurred.
As the sun sinks below the horizon, two scientists perch quietly beside a darkening field and wait for flashes of light. They have traveled far outside the city in search of research sites, because they study a group of creatures that have been driven to the margins of human settlements: fireflies.
Sixteen years ago, an invasive pest called the woolly adelgid arrived at Harvard Forest and slowly began to devastate its the eastern hemlocks — as they had done in forcce elsewhere. Since then, Harvard Forest scientists have begun to study how to manage the demise of its so-called foundation species.
Menstrual tracking apps have become all the rage, leading the growing field of “femtech” that claims to help women understand — and regulate — their bodies. But these apps may promise more than they deliver — and even be harmful to women.
For most of his life, Daniel Lieberman has dedicated his mind to studying the evolution of the human body. In his latest project, he also devoted his body — specifically his digestive tract — to science.
Professor Sarah Lewis’s curated exhibition, “If Emmett Till Lived: Freedom on American Ground,” opened September 10 at the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago.
Two Harvard scientists describe a way to engineer the evolutionary landscape that viruses experience, pushing them away from dangerous variants and into evolutionary dead ends.
Upon moving to Cambridge, geophysicist Xiyuan Bao often relied on navigation software to find his way through the unfamiliar network of roads. He realized the same technology could help him find something else: a solution to a mystery deep within the Earth.
Coastal erosion, worsened by climate change, is consuming West African communities on the Gulf of Guinea. A team led by the Salata Institute’s Emmanuel Akyeampong surveyed 450 residents on the mental health impacts of the destruction.
Blazars, or galaxies powered by supermassive black holes, act as anchor points in the sky. They shine brightly in telescope observations, but because they are so far away, they appear almost perfectly fixed.
New research from Erin Hecht’s Evolutionary Neuroscience Laboratory analyzes how human influence has shaped the canine brain to make dogs better communicators.
The institute will bring together 39 researchers across fields including mathematics, computer science, engineering, physics, and chemistry.
The technology, described in a new paper in Cell, could reshape how scientists investigate tissue function and disease.
Researchers in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology combined biophysics, structural biology, and simulation to solve a manufacturing question.