WHERE THERE’S FIRE, THERE’S SMOKE Controlled burns and vegetation thinning are common methods used to reduce the severity of potential wildfires, and land management tools already existed when Chung ...

Key Takeaways Scientists have described a particular movement observed mostly in young, teenaged anacondas, called an S-start. The model shows that young anacondas, as opposed to babies and adults, ...

Engineering Design Projects (ES 100), the capstone course at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), challenges seniors to engineer a creative solution to a real ...

When a crack forms in the new material, the long spaghetti strands spread out the stress by sliding past each other, allowing more rubber to crystallize as it stretches, and overall making the ...

To demonstrate the power of their device, the team devised an experiment in which they used their bilayer metalens to act on polarized light in the same way that a complicated system of waveplates and ...

To go airborne, the robot uses what’s called latch-mediated spring actuation, in which potential energy is stored in an elastic element – the furcula – that can be deployed in milliseconds like a ...

Because Mars lacks plate tectonics, unlike Earth, the surface seen today is similar to that of long ago, making its history of lakes and rivers that much more intriguing. “It makes a really great case ...

Founded in 2021, the lab’s partners include experts at Harvard Medical School and Harvard Business School, and its goal is to build a future where “physical ability or advancing age are not the ...

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is underestimating methane emissions from landfills, urban areas and U.S. states, according to a new study led by researchers at the Harvard John A. Paulson ...

Researchers develop metafluid with programmable responseThat transition changes many of the liquid’s properties, including its viscosity and opacity. Those properties can be tuned by changing the ...

Since the project began in 2019, Werfel and the team, which includes Robert Wood, the Harry Lewis and Marlyn McGrath Professor of Engineering and Applied Sciences at SEAS, have developed new robotic ...

In December, the students presented their final projects — made with the Duck’s help — at the annual CS50 Fair in the basement of the Northwest Science Building. Topics ranged from games and social ...