Harvard stem cell scientists reported a new record for sustaining human brain “organoids.” The cell cultures were kept for more than five years. Lab-grown organoids replicated the developmental stages ...

The institute will bring together 39 researchers across fields including mathematics, computer science, engineering, physics, ...

If you get a sense that someone sees something in you — talent, capacity, or passion — that you haven’t recognized, listen to ...

For more than three decades, the Harvard College First-Year Arts Program has served as incoming students’ first encounter ...

How did we cede control of our democracy to the machines, and can we get it back? Lepore asks in her latest book.

Mantle plumes are formations of hot rock in the Earth’s mantle, located up to 1,800 miles deep, that are believed to be the origins of volcanic “hotspots.” These structures have been mapped using the ...

The human brain has long posed unique challenges for researchers. The very organ that most differentiates humans from the rest of the animal kingdom is arguably the hardest to study. For one thing, it ...

Emmanuel Akyeampong, Ellen Gurney Professor of History, leads a research cluster on climate adaptation in vulnerable African coastal communities. The cross-disciplinary effort, launched three years ...

The latest film by Ross McElwee, photographed this summer on campus, will air September 7 on PBS. Carlos Sanchez/Harvard FAS Staff Photographer Ross McElwee has often set out to make a film about one ...

Blazars, or galaxies powered by supermassive black holes, act as anchor points in the sky. They shine brightly in telescope observations, with glowing nuclei that send jets of particles and radiation ...