Since World War I, the vast majority of American combat casualties has come not from gunshot wounds but from explosions. Today, most soldiers wear a…
Using Turbulence to Generate Frequency Combs From Small Ring Lasers We’ve all experienced turbulent air and water, but did you know light can be turbulent…
International team sketches first large-scale genomic portrait of pre-Columbian Andean civilizations. At a glance: Analysis yields first comprehensive genomic profile of ancient populations in central…
Harvard researchers detect some of the earliest evidence for modern-like plate motion. An enduring question in geology is when Earth’s tectonic plates began pushing and…
Towards an Unhackable Quantum Internet with Harvard and MIT A quantum internet could be used to send unhackable messages, improve the accuracy of GPS, and…
Scientists discover the structure of an enzyme, found in the human gut, that breaks down a component of collagen. MIT and Harvard University chemists have…
University students and researchers working on a NASA mission orbiting a near-Earth asteroid have made an unexpected detection of a phenomenon 30 thousand light-years away….
Turbulence is everywhere — it rattles our planes and makes tiny whirlpools in our bathtubs — but it is one of the least understood phenomena…
Scaling up cervical cancer screening coverage in the U.S. to 90% could expedite elimination of the disease and avert more than 1,000 additional cases per…
McMaster and Harvard University researchers create ‘intelligent’ interaction between light and material, establishing a promising new platform for computing. A collaboration between McMaster and Harvard…
New evidence shows the first building blocks of life on Earth may have been messier than previously thought. When the Earth was born, it was…
Harvard Scientists Uncover Link Between the Nervous System and Stem Cells That Regenerate Pigment When Marie Antoinette was captured during the French Revolution, her hair…
Interconnected stellar nurseries form the largest gaseous structure ever observed in the Milky Way galaxy. Astronomers at Harvard University have discovered a monolithic, wave-shaped gaseous…
Recent research settles a long-standing debate. Move over Godzilla vs. King Kong — this is the crossover event you’ve been waiting for. Well, at least…
Lighting the Way: A new method to detect light in the brain sets the stage for next-gen optical brain devices. Researchers from the Italian Institute…
With ultracold chemistry, researchers get a first look at exactly what happens during a chemical reaction. The coldest chemical reaction in the known universe took…
Study establishes how some songs sound ‘right’ in different social contexts, all over the world. Nearly 200 years ago, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow asserted “Music is…
New terahertz frequency laser opens up large, underused region of the electromagnetic spectrum. The terahertz frequency range — which sits in the middle of the…