Key takeaways Hydrocephalus is a life-threatening condition in which excess cerebrospinal fluid collects in the brain. The condition is usually treated through surgical implantation of brain shunts, ...

The slimy, segmented, bottom-dwelling California blackworm is about as unappealing as it gets – but get a few dozen or thousand together, and they form a massive, entangled blob that seems to take on ...

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 ...

Materials Science and Mechanical Engineering at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) offers comprehensive undergraduate and graduate programs that span from ...

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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 ...

Up, up, and away. (photo by Seth Kroll/Wyss Institute at Harvard University) Cambridge, Mass. – August 7, 2014 – A team of engineers used little more than paper and Shrinky dinks™—the classic children ...

Inspired by the biology of a fly, with submillimeter-scale anatomy and two wafer-thin wings that flap almost invisibly, 120 times per second, this tiny robot has taken its first controlled flight.

In the Harvard Microrobotics Lab, on a late afternoon in August, decades of research culminated in a moment of stress as the tiny, groundbreaking RoboBee made its first solo flight. Graduate student ...

The first thing that Mitchell and his team needed was physical evidence, something Sepulveda supplied in the form of samples—both degrading skin and undamaged skin—taken from mummies in the museum’s ...

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Left - High-resolution image of an iron substitution (centre of image) and a samarium vacancy (upper right) on the surface of SmB6. Right - Image of the electric charge in the same area reveals ...