Compelling Evidence That Multiple Sclerosis Is Caused by Epstein-Barr Virus
Multiple sclerosis (MS), a progressive disease that affects 2.8 million people worldwide and for which there is no definitive cure, is likely caused by infection…
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Harvard’s New Genetics Research on Ancient Britain Contains Insights on Language, Ancestry, Kinship, Milk
Two new studies highlight technological advances in large-scale genomics and open windows into the lives of ancient people. New research reveals a major migration to…
New Biomedical Research Outlines How Longer Lives Are Tied to Physical Activity
Taking it easy as you get older? Wrong. Message of new Lieberman study: ‘Because we evolved to be active throughout our lives, our bodies need…
Quantum Computing Breakthrough: Exotic Quantum Particles – Less Magnetic Field Required
Research paves the way for future quantum devices and applications. Exotic quantum particles and phenomena are like the world’s most daring elite athletes. Like the…
Harvard Scientists Observe Quantum Spin Liquids – A Never-Before-Seen State of Matter
Harvard researchers observe a state of matter predicted and hunted for 50 years but never previously observed. In 1973, physicist Philip W. Anderson theorized the…
“This Virus Is a Shape-Shifter!” – New Research Details How COVID Variants Are Evolving New Ways To Evade Vaccines
New study models future SARS-CoV-2 mutations and forecasts their ability to evade immune defenses developed by vaccines and antibody-based treatments. Since the study was completed,…
Computer Conservation: Lily Xu Uses Artificial Intelligence To Stop Poaching Around the World
Lily Xu knew from a young age how much the environment and conservation mattered to her. By 9 years old, she’d already decided to eat…
Shifting Colors for On-Chip Photonics To Power Next Generation Quantum Computers and Networks
On-chip frequency shifters in the gigahertz range could be used in next generation quantum computers and networks. The ability to precisely control and change properties…
Delta-Like COVID-19 Variants Are Most Likely To Increase Pandemic Severity
A SARS-CoV-2 variant with traits similar to that of the Delta variant—enhanced transmissibility and an ability to infect people who had previous infections/vaccination—will cause a…
Epochs of Extreme Heat: On Ancient Earth, It Never Rained but It Poured
Extreme Heat Led to Episodic Deluges on Hothouse Earth Today, we are experiencing the dramatic impacts that even a small increase in global temperatures can…
New Computer Program Can Read Any Genome Sequence and Decipher Its Genetic Code
Yekaterina “Kate” Shulgina was a first year student in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, looking for a short computational biology project so she…
Harvard Scientists Study Worms That Glow in the Dark To Learn the Secrets of Regeneration
Harvard scientists take the study of regeneration to the next level by making three-banded panther worms transgenic. Cut off the head of a three-banded panther…
Engineering a New Toehold for RNA Therapeutics, Cell Therapies, and Diagnostics
eToeholds are engineered control elements that could make RNA therapeutics safer, cell therapies more effective, and enable novel forms of biodetection. RNAs are best known…
Harvard Neuroscientists Explore the Science of Acupuncture
Researchers have discovered neurons needed for acupuncture‘s anti-inflammatory response, Acupuncture is a traditional Chinese technique that has been used for millennia to treat chronic pain…
People Weren’t So Lazy Back Then: How Americans Changed Over the Last 200 Years
Study comparing 19th- and 21st-century Americans finds a half-hour decline in daily physical activity. Today, Americans have access to what feels like an endless amount…
Fossil Dental Exams Reveal How Tusks Evolved – Originated in “Very Weird Animals” Called Dicynodonts
Most people picture an elephant when imagining animals with tusks. But many other animals have tusks including warthogs, hippopotamuses, Arctic-dwelling walruses, and even a five-pound,…
First Dinosaur Era Crab Discovered – Fully Preserved in 100-Million-Year-Old Amber
Fossils trapped in amber provide a unique snapshot of the anatomy, biology, and ecology of extinct organisms. The most common fossils found in amber, which…
Shape-Shifting Materials With Infinite Possibilities: Totimorphic Structural Materials Can Achieve Any Shape
Researchers from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have developed a shape-shifting material that can take and hold any…
