The findings unlock a path to harnessing ultra-fast magnetic materials and cleaner computer memory and hardware — enabling performance gains that could solve major energy bottlenecks facing modern data centers.
A new exhibit at Harvard’s Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments, opening Friday, probes how calipers and spirometers never simply recorded differences. They helped invent them.
Harvard geoscientists reported that organic matter harvested from certain meteorites bears chemical traces of “primitive oxygen reservoirs” that have changed little since the birth of our solar system. The findings help trace the origins of organic matter that meteorites may have delivered to a young Earth, supplying the planet with ingredients essential for life.
The astrochemist traveled to Vatican City to accept the award in a September 24 ceremony.
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.
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.
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.
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.