Harvard awarded $37M National Science Foundation grant for fault-tolerant quantum computing
The institute will bring together 39 researchers across fields including mathematics, computer science, engineering, physics, and chemistry.
Engineering and Technology
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.
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.
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.
At age 101, alum gifts ‘big, geometric, colorful’ artwork to the FAS
When David Bakalar first set foot at Harvard, he was a 17-year-old child of immigrants commuting by bus from Lynn, Mass., his $500 “nonresident scholarship” covering tuition and a study space at Leverett House but not room and board.
The smartphone system that detected seismic activity and saved lives in Venezuela
An earthquake alert system mines data from billions of Android phones, the most common smartphone in the world, and easily the most popular in less wealthy nations.
‘High risk, high reward’ researchers awarded Star-Friedman funding
Grantees cross the sciences, range from work in quantum to ‘smart skins’
First Proof’s second batch of math problems test AI
Humans are still doing the heavy lifting, despite rapid AI progress
Improving public charging still key for EV adoption
Prospective buyers are most concerned about where to plug in, researchers say
Harvard astronomer, ‘our heroine’ of the 20th century, memorialized in London
FAS Dean Hopi Hoekstra helped dedicate a plaque at the teenage home of Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin.
High-tech for the 1700s
Exhibit showcases tools that powered Revolutionary America