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Carole Hooven, lecturer in Human Evolutionary Biology (left) and Mary Ruggie, adjunct professor of public policy at the Kennedy School (right), along with Mary Ellen Galante (not pictured), a Cambridge-area midwife, discuss the medical and cultural perception of the female body at "Deviant Bodies," an event sponsored by the Harvard Women's Center.
meteorshower
Some Winthropians and Kirklanders gather on the Quad Lawn in order to find some peace and quiet in which to stargaze and watch the Lenoid Meteor Shower. The showers peaked at 4 am.
Physicists Create Microscope
Members of Harvard’s physics department have created a quantum gas microscope that allows atoms to be observed individually at a temperature of five billionths of a degree above absolute zero.
New 'Lab at Harvard' Opens
Kicking a soccer ball often causes a throbbing toe and a loss of energy upon impact. But with Soccket—an idea ...
Gore's Latest Book Focuses on Solutions
Former Vice President Al Gore ’69 spoke to a packed audience about his latest book “Our Choice: A Plan To ...
Using Religion to Go Green
Adorned in a full-length clerical robe with a Bible in hand, Reverend Robert J. Mark, a McDonald Fellow at Memorial ...
Neurobiology Looks To Shed Light On Vision, Art
If you ask a child how they see, they say they open their eyes. Simple enough. But what if you ask the child what’s going on in the eye?
Gay Men Attracted to Masculine Features
Gay men have the strongest sexual attraction to the most masculinized male faces, according to a study recently published online in the journal “Archives of Sexual Behavior.”
Art and Science: A Work in Progress
Harvard’s campus is no stranger to musical performances, but it has yet to play host to a piece that uses the human body as its score—at least, until the unveiling this Sunday of the Gigue project, which uses computer programs to measure and transform a person’s heartbeat into music.
Similar Venom Found in Two Species
Reptiles and mammals may represent different classes in the animal kingdom, but researchers in the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology have found that similar molecular changes cause both a lizard and a shrew to produce a toxin—a discovery that may shed light on similar changes that occur in other animals.
Cancer Survivors See Higher Incidence of Suicidal Thoughts
Childhood cancer survivors may be more prone to suffer suicidal thoughts later in life than those who have remained healthy throughout childhood, according to a study released last week by a team of Harvard Medical School researchers at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.
Butterflies Lend Insights About Speciation
Early signs of divergent evolution in Heliconius butterflies in Ecuador may reveal a missing link to understanding how species form, according to a recent study by Harvard researchers.
Study Finds Vitamin D Deficiency in Kids
A high percentage of American children have low levels of vitamin D—a deficiency that could lead to a host of health problems, ranging from respiratory diseases to weak bones to the common cold.
Obama Praises Renewable Energy at MIT
President Barack Obama called forincreased use of renewable energy andlevied criticisms against opponents ofthe energy and climate bill now makingits ...
Urate May Help Slow Parkinson’s
High levels of uric acid are typically associated with gout, the painful condition that afflicted King Louis XVIII of France.
Putting the Patient Back Into Medicine
When Martin A. Samuels was growing up in the suburbs of Cleveland, a house call from his pediatrician J.W. Epstein was a big deal.
Chemistry Researchers Bend Nanowires
A group of researchers in the lab of chemistry professor Charles M. Lieber have found a way to synthesize two- and three-dimensional versions of the microscopic strands known as nanowires—a breakthrough that researchers say may greatly increase the reach and applicability of the field by allowing scientists to design vastly more complex structures.
30 New Tibetan Plant Species Found
Thirty new species of plants and fungi were discovered in the Hengduan Mountains of Tibet in a recent research project conducted by Harvard researchers in collaboration with Chinese collectors.
Surgical Outcomes Are Questioned
A popular minimally invasive prostate cancer procedure increases a patient’s risk for erectile dysfunction and incontinence, Harvard researchers reported last week in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
Beloved Lab Administrator To Retire in December
Lenny Solomon, singer, songwriter, and lab administrator, will retire this coming December after 38 years as the research program manager for Harvard’s Anderson Research Group.
Scientists Discover 3D Genome Structure
A team of scientists at Harvard, MIT, the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, and the University of Massachusetts Medical School announced yesterday that they have deciphered the three-dimensional structure of the human genome.
Project to Look For Autism Gene
With the aid of a $4.5 million federal grant, Harvard Medical School and two affiliates are embarking on a project to sequence the genes of 85 patients suffering from autism in the hopes of better understanding the causes of the mysterious disorder.