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Most Critically Ill COVID-19 Patients Survive with Respiratory Failure Treatment Strategy, Research Finds
The majority of critically ill COVID-19 patients survive under current treatment guidelines for respiratory failure, clinicians at two Harvard teaching hospitals found.
Provost Announces Plans for ‘Phased’ Reopening of Harvard Labs, Libraries, and Museums
Harvard will begin a “phased” reopening of its research labs through the oversight of a new Lab Reopening Planning Committee, University Provost Alan M. Garber ’76 wrote in an email to Harvard faculty Monday.
Researchers Discover First Known Swimming Dinosaur
An international research team that includes two Harvard professors has determined that the Spinosaurus is the first known swimming dinosaur, according to a study published Wednesday in the peer-reviewed journal Nature.
Harvard Researchers Create Simulator to Help Policymakers, Public Understand COVID-19
Harvard, Massachusetts General Hospital, and Georgia Tech researchers have created an interactive online COVID-19 simulator to help policymakers better respond to the novel coronavirus.
Internet Adapting Well to COVID-19 Pressures for Now, Harvard Affiliates Say
Harvard affiliates studying the impact of COVID-19 on the Internet have concluded that while the Internet has thus withstood additional pressures amid the pandemic, the long-term consequences of skyrocketing demand remain unclear.
Swimming Spinosaurus
An artist's reconstruction of Spinosaurus, which an international research team recently determined to be the first known swimming dinosaur.
Wyss Researchers Could Contribute 200,000 COVID-19 Tests per Day by May Using New Nasal Swab
Medical centers around the United States will begin testing a cheap and easily produced nasal swab for COVID-19 diagnostics designed by scientists at Harvard’s Wyss Institute next week.
Biogen Partners with Broad Institute to Build COVID-19 Biobank
The Kendall Square-based company Biogen announced on April 16 it will partner with the Broad Institute and Boston-area hospitals to build a COVID-19 biobank — a repository that will store biological samples to be used for research purposes.
Harvard Astronomy Chair Nominated for President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology
Harvard Astronomy department chair Abraham Loeb was nominated to be a member of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology on Monday.
Harvard, Bonn Researchers Discover Potential Discrepancies in Assumption of Isotropy
Researchers at Harvard and the University of Bonn published a study April 7 casting possible doubt upon the longstanding assumption that the universe is isotropic.
As Coronavirus Spreads, False Theories Linking Harvard Professor Lieber to Disease’s Origin Proliferate Online
As the novel coronavirus spreads, conspiracy theories about its origin have spread with it — including those falsely alleging that the virus was made and sold by Harvard Chemistry professor Charles M. Lieber.
Harvard Physicists Propose Method for Determining Black Hole Spin
A team of Harvard physicists published an article Wednesday outlining a novel method for determining the “spin” — or angular momentum — of a black hole.
Harvard Commits to Technology Access Framework During COVID-19 Crisis
Harvard has announced its commitment to the COVID-19 Technology Access Framework, which allows the use of non-exclusive and royalty-free licenses of intellectual property rights for products aimed at combating the coronavirus pandemic.
Harvard Astrophysicists Detect Binary White Dwarf System Generating Gravitational Waves
Researchers at the Harvard and Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics discovered a pair of white dwarf stars that orbit each other and produce gravitational waves — the first wave source of this type ever found.
Harvard Postdoc Launches National COVID-19 Research Volunteer Database
As Harvard postdoctoral fellow Michael F. Wells walked home from his last in-person laboratory meeting for the foreseeable future, one thing was on his mind – finding a way to combat the spread of COVID-19 that had forced his research group to close for two months.
Wyss and Broad Institute Scientists Respond to COVID-19 Pandemic
Scientists at Harvard’s Wyss Institute and the Broad Institute began research on new technologies for diagnostic testing of the novel coronavirus, according to two articles published on the institutes’ respective websites last week.
Broad Researchers Enhance Facilities to Run 2,000 COVID-19 Tests per Day
The Broad Institute is processing COVID-19 test samples from across New England at a rate of approximately 2,000 samples per day, the organization announced in a press release Thursday.
Harvard, MIT Scientists Make Quantum Leap Toward New Internet
Researchers from Harvard and MIT have pioneered a device that could improve quantum communication and may be the key to developing a quantum internet, according to an article published Monday in the scientific journal Nature.
Black Hole Research
A team of Harvard scientists and others produced refined simulated images of a black hole in research published this month.
Harvard Physicists Refine Images of Black Hole
A team led by scientists at the Harvard Black Hole Initiative published an article Wednesday outlining a method to simulate sharper images of a black hole.
Broad Institute Researchers Design COVID-19 Tests that Could Cost ‘Around Ten Dollars’
Researchers at the Broad Institute are improving and validating a COVID-19 detection protocol that could potentially take less than an hour and cost around ten dollars per test.
Sciences Dean Reiterates Remote-Work Policy After Grad Student Reports Coercion to Come into Lab
Dean of Sciences Christopher W. Stubbs reiterated the University’s remote-work policy after a student complained of coercion to report for lab work in person.
Wyss Biostasis Project Succeeds in 'Stopping Biological Time' in Tadpoles
Scientists at Harvard’s Wyss Institute have identified chemicals that could effectively pause biological aging as part of their “Biostasis” project, now over a year after they signed a five-year contract with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency in December 2018.
Science Book Talk
Paul Steinhardt, Albert Einstein Professor in Science and Theoretical Physicist from Princeton University, speaks about his book, "The Second Kind of Impossible: The Extraordinary Quest for a New Form of Matter," in the Science Center Thursday evening.