Microbes thrive in harsh, isolated water under Antarctic glacier
A reservoir of briny liquid buried deep beneath an Antarctic glacier supports hardy microbes that have lived in isolation for millions of years, researchers report this week in the journal Science....
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Surrendering their secrets
Ann Pearson is a chemical sleuth, tracking traces of ancient life and environments through the chemical fingerprints they left behind. Pearson, a professor of biogeochemistry in the Department of...
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The record in the rocks
Before them was a sheer cliff made of whitish limestone. Tearing across the cliff was the Bonarelli, a stark black layer of rock over a meter thick, and highlighted below by flares of rusty orange....
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Time travel in chalk
A group of Harvard and MIT scientists put down their lab instruments and picked up artists’ tools recently, creating a visual time machine to take Hoffman Laboratory passers-by to three earlier eras...
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A peek at Harvard’s future
When Maya Jasanoff arrived on campus as a freshman two decades ago, the Harvard that she came to know was vastly different from that of today. “At that time, we pored over facebooks in our dorm rooms...
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Deep into the past
Harvard celebrated its top-ranked seniors Tuesday at the 225th Phi Beta Kappa Literary Exercises at Sanders Theatre in Memorial Hall. Harvard’s chapter dates to 1779. All these years later, both the...
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Five named Harvard College Professors
Though Harvard faculty members often garner accolades for their pioneering research, they are perhaps less often publically celebrated for their talents as teachers and mentors. In that spirit, each...
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Harvard award funds four high-risk, high-reward projects
Research administration services at the Faculty of Arts and Sciences last week named nine Harvard researchers as the 2019 winners of the Star-Friedman Challenge for Promising Scientific Research. The...
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