Harvard researchers design a tunable, self actuated 3-D material Imagine a house that could fit in a backpack or a wall that could become a window with the flick of a switch. Harvard researc... Read more
Algorithm may be applied to a broad range of complicated problems. To work with computational models is to work in a world of unknowns: Models that simulate complex physical processes — from... Read more
A Unified Microbiome Initiative to accelerate microbiome research would unlock new insights and speed translation of discoveries into numerous potential technologies for health, industry, an... Read more
Researchers at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have demonstrated a way to make steel stronger, safer and more durable. Their new surface coating... Read more
One of the greatest tragedies of a refugee population is the months and years lost while in camps and temporary housing. A person in a stable situation spends that time building a career, go... Read more
New tools allow researchers to share and study sensitive data safely by applying ‘differential privacy’ The promise of big data lies in researchers’ ability to mine massive... Read more
An international team of Seoul National University and Harvard researchers looked to water strider insects to develop robots that jump off water’s surface The concept of walking on water mig... Read more
First of its kind robot is inspired by nature, capable of multiple jumps Engineers at Harvard University and the University of California, San Diego, have created the first robot with a 3D-p... Read more
It’s a notion that might be pulled from the pages of science-fiction novel – electronic devices that can be injected directly into the brain, or other body parts, and treat every... Read more
UNSW biomedical engineer Melissa Knothe Tate is using previously top-secret semiconductor technology to zoom through organs of the human body, down to the level of a single cell. A world-fir... Read more
The technologists’ dream of remaking the planet to live with our carbon emissions is here. How do we stop one panicked country from deciding it’s time to press the button? Here... Read more
“We’re almost at a 1 percent efficiency rate of converting sunlight into isopropanol,” Nocera said. “There have been 2.6 billion years of evolution, and Pam and I working together a year and... 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
Neither quantum computers nor quantum cryptography will become prevalent technologies without memory systems able to manipulate quantum information easily and effectively. The Faculty of Phy... Read more