NO NEED FOR COLOR CORRECTION—HARVARD PHYSICISTS’ FLAT OPTICS, USING NANOTECHNOLOGY, GETS IT RIGHT THE FIRST TIME Most lenses are, by definition, curved. After all, they are named for their r... Read more
HARVARD-LED STUDY REVEALS AGING NATURAL GAS DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM SHORT-CHANGES CUSTOMERS, CONTRIBUTES TO GREENHOUSE GAS BUILDUP Imagine if every time you filled your car with gas, a few gallo... Read more
IN HARVARD’S HIGH-TECH CLEANROOM, APPLIED PHYSICISTS PRODUCE VIVID OPTICAL EFFECTS—ON PAPER In a sub-basement deep below the Laboratory for Integrated Science and Engineering at Harvard Univ... Read more
The majority of drugs used to treat asthma today are the same ones that were used 50 years ago. Tissue-level model of human airway musculature could pave way for patient-specific asthma tre... Read more
NEW TRANSISTOR ACHIEVES ‘COLOSSAL’ SWITCHABLE RESISTANCE USING QUANTUM MATERIALS AND PHYSICS DEVELOPED IN A FUEL CELL LAB Silicon has few serious competitors as the material of choice in the... Read more
“Form a sea star shape,” directs a computer scientist, sending the command to 1,024 little bots simultaneously via an infrared light. The robots begin to blink at one another and then gradua... Read more
A Harvard-led team is the first to demonstrate the ability to use low-power light to trigger stem cells inside the body to regenerate tissue, an advance they reported in Science Translationa... Read more
NANOSTRUCTURED CAPSULES COULD BRING ABOUT PAINTS AND ELECTRONIC DISPLAYS THAT NEVER FADE Among the taxidermal specimens in Harvard’s Museum of Comparative Zoology, past centuries-old fur coa... Read more
Harvard physicists propose a device to capture energy from earth’s infrared emissions to outer space. When the sun sets on a remote desert outpost and solar panels shut down, what ener... Read more
“It could inspire a whole new class of cardiac therapies, such as improved ventricular assist devices that mimic natural heart motion.” In the heart, as in the movies, 3D action... Read more
The work represents a major step toward a longstanding goal of tissue engineers: creating human tissue constructs realistic enough to test drug safety and effectiveness. A new bioprinting me... Read more
SELF-ORGANIZING ROBOTS INSPIRED BY TERMITE COLONIES DEMONSTRATE SWARM-LIKE INTELLIGENCE On the plains of Namibia, millions of tiny termites are building a mound of soil—an 8-foot-tall “lung”... Read more
A new type of electrical generator uses bacterial spores to harness the untapped power of evaporating water, according to research conducted at the Wyss Institute of Biologically Inspired En... Read more
The new flow battery developed by the Harvard team already performs as well as vanadium flow batteries, with chemicals that are significantly less expensive, and with no precious metal elect... Read more
Could open the door for “smart drugs” that can automatically detect, diagnose, and treat a variety of diseases Computer scientists at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (... Read more
