Science & Tech

Proficiency, place, emotion, or something else? These late-night conversations defy easy explanation.

Ten research teams at Harvard will share $1.3 million in the eighth round of the Climate Change Solutions Fund awards, which address both local and global issues.

Harvard scientists discuss what the quest to image black holes could tell us about our universe.

Pioneering Harvard-led global collaborative unveils latest portrait, bolstering understanding of relativity, gravity.

A new book illustrates how one cell develops into the complex operational centers that not only make us human, but also individuals.

Soyeon Yi, the first Korean astronaut, details her experiences with Americans and Russians while on a mission on the International Space Station.

Harvard-led researchers detect some of the earliest evidence for modern-like plate motion.

Bellono Lab gets new addition, piranhas. Now it’s time to study their eating habits.

Harvard student Amir Siraj ’22 and Professor Avi Loeb have found the earliest known meteor from another solar system to hit Earth, with the results confirmed by U.S. Space Force.

A team of physicists have created a new method for shuttling entangled atoms in a quantum processor at the forefront for building large-scale programmable quantum machines.

Three physics Rhodes Scholars reflect on ways female mentorship helped them, importance of paying it forward.

The panel of experts looked at success and failures since the first Earth Day in 1970.

Reimagined world map of agriculture could turn back clock 20 years on carbon emissions.

Andrew Knoll, Harvard’s Fisher Research Professor of Natural History and author of the recent popular science book “A Brief History of Earth: Four Billion Years in Eight Chapters,” shares six facts about the Earth.

Harvard researchers present a new method of volumetric 3D printing.

Forgetting generates changes in the brain and does not reverse the learning process, Harvard study finds.

In their new book, two Harvard scholars suggest that a subconscious process can help us understand everything from our aesthetic tastes to our altruism.

Stephen Fleming, author of “Know Thyself: The Science of Self-Awareness,” explains the importance of “thinking about thinking.”

A galaxy, some 13.5 billion light-years away, is now considered the most distant astronomical object ever spotted, leaving scientists to speculate exactly what the galaxy is.

Hopi Hoekstra documents whether NCAA team mascots are really what they say they are. Here’s a bracket-buster: Many of them aren’t.

New book uses examples of a genre that blends futuristic technology with Victorian style to explain concepts of revolutionary new science.

The feeling can eat you alive — but only if you let it

Studying the paranormal can contribute to anthropology, says Jack Hunter in Harvard talk.

Using one of the world’s largest supercomputers, high-resolution simulations were created that show 1 million galaxies forming some 13 billion years ago.

Chemical biology professor works to crack secrets of new states of matter.

Jacob Barandes’ new class combines philosophy and physics to look at quantum theory.

Harvard astrophysicist and psychologist explore the possibility of life beyond our solar system and what to do should aliens arrive on Earth ready to engage.

Research done at Harvard unveils only the second “weird wonder” fossilized Opabinia, first popularized by the late evolutionary biologist.

After internet theorists react to viral video, Harvard researchers answer with science.

Larissa Zimberoff, author of “Technically Food,” examined new ways of producing what we eat and drink in a discussion sponsored by the Food Literacy Project at Harvard.