Science & Tech

Harvard experts look at different aspects of President Trump’s decision to withdraw the U.S. from the Paris climate agreement.

Harvard’s Ali Malkawi explains his efforts to create a house will be transformed into an energy-efficient headquarters and lab space for the Graduate School of Design’s Center for Green Buildings and Cities.

Inspired by arthropod insects and spiders, scientists George Whitesides and Alex Nemiroski have created a type of semi-soft robot capable of walking, using drinking straws, and inflatable tubing. The team was even able to create a robotic water strider capable of pushing itself along the water’s surface.

Summer storms in the central U.S. create the same chemical reactions damaging ozone in the Arctic, warns a Harvard study calling for a closer look at the region’s UV radiation risk.

Q&A with HBS Professor George Serafeim on the response among corporate leaders to the U.S. exit from the Paris climate agreement.

Harvard researchers have demonstrated that a tethered soft exosuit can bring those dreams of high performance closer to reality.

A team of physicists has taken a crucial step toward understanding superconductors by creating a quantum antiferromagnet from an ultracold gas of hundreds of lithium atoms.

The natural level of lead in the air is essentially zero, according to research backed by data from the 14th-century Black Death, when mining and smelting ceased.

Researchers say their glomerulus-on-a-chip lined by human stem cell-derived kidney cells could help model patient-specific kidney diseases and guide therapeutic discovery.

The Ed School and the Harvard Chan School brought together experts to discuss the nation’s opioid crisis in separate panel events.

Researchers in recent years have begun applying the emerging technology of the drone aircraft to research efforts, and are now even using them to quickly create 3-D maps of ancient sites in Iraq’s Kurdistan region.

New findings suggest a surprisingly common default in human behavior: the view that immoral actions are impossible.

The Harvard University Center for the Environment has produced 35 videos in which experts in various fields describe work related to climate change.

To make a difference on climate change, author Naomi Klein says, government and business would have to shift their ways, and likely won’t.

Carlos Moedas, European Union Science Commissioner, spoke about the importance of science in the “post-truth” era in a visit to the Harvard Kennedy School.

Q&A with Dava Sobel, whose new book “The Glass Universe” explores pioneering work by female analysts at the Harvard College Observatory.

New Harvard research examines the gap between stories we like to tell and stories we like to hear.

Professor Naomi Oreskes wants scientists to make a stronger case for action on climate change.

Harvard scientists helped develop an algorithm for predicting whether a social structure is likely to favor cooperation.

Harvard launches sweeping data science initiative, and names Francesca Dominici and David Parkes as co-directors.

New findings indicate that a smartphone-based semen analyzer can identify abnormal semen samples based on sperm concentration and motility criteria with approximately 98 percent accuracy.

David Buckley Borden, a Bullard Fellow at Harvard Forest, is using art to make a point about sustainability and conservation.

A new study led by Harvard Medical School and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health researchers examines the impact of individual physicians’ spending patterns on patient outcomes.

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, is the rare government agency that is all about change, in this case endlessly improving technology that has military applications.

A new study suggests that infant-directed song evolved as a way for parents to signal to children that their needs were being met, while leaving time for other tasks, like food foraging or caring for other offspring.

Seven Harvard projects will share $1 million to help battle climate change across a range of academic boundaries.

A trio of Harvard researchers has developed a new 3-D pictorial language for mathematics with potential as a tool across a wide spectrum, from pure math to physics.

Researchers have shown, for the first time, that chimpanzees learn certain grooming behaviors from their mothers. Once learned, chimps continued to perform the behavior long after the deaths of their mothers.

Based on data collected from a French grocery store chain, a new Harvard study has found that minority workers were far less efficient in a handful of important metrics when working with biased managers.

The Gazette speaks to Robert Stavins, director of the Harvard Project on Climate Agreements and a past member of the EPA’s Science Advisory Board, about the future of the EPA under the leadership of Scott Pruitt.