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 ...

As adults, these large snakes are better known for their slow, lumbering gait, but the researchers discovered that young ...

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 ...

Researchers in the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have developed a machine learning framework that can predict with quantum-level accuracy how materials ...

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 ...

Fish can accumulate high levels of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), even far from sources of contamination, according to a new study by researchers at The Harvard John A. Paulson School of ...

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 ...

Mounting the metalens on a tripod with a color filter and camera sensor, Park and the team took to the roof of Harvard’s Science Center. There, they imaged the Sun, the moon and the North America ...

Researchers from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have developed a new lithium metal battery that can be charged and discharged at least 6,000 times — more ...