Lola England de Valpine Professor of Applied Mathematics, of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, and of Physics ...

Natural rubber, one of the world's most widely manufactured biomaterials, has been used by humans for thousands of years. Its resistance to crack growth, however, hasn't improved much for decades.

Harry Lewis and Marlyn McGrath Professor of Engineering and Applied Sciences ...

In the Harvard Move Lab, mannequins don jackets decorated with electronics and hanging wires.Design drawings are scattered on workbenches, and sewing machines sit among fabric-filled cubbies labeled ...

Much of the equipment and apparel used by female athletes could use an update. Tampon design hasn’t changed much since the product debuted in 1931, despite many women reporting discomfort wearing one ...

“This study underscores the urgent need for more comprehensive monitoring of PFAS in aquatic ecosystems, particularly in regions where freshwater fishing is an important food source for recreational ...

The research, published in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, was a collaboration between scientists at Harvard and an interdisciplinary team of researchers from across the U.S. and around the world, ...

That transition changes many of the liquid’s properties, including its viscosity and opacity. Those properties can be tuned by changing the number, thickness and size of the capsules in the liquid.

“Instead of bringing the robot up to the level of the human, we’re looking at bringing tasks down to the level of the robot, and building something that both robots and humans can easily operate,” ...

Harvard students enrolled in CS50, which teaches the fundamentals of computer programming for a range of languages, had some special help with their final projects this year — an AI chatbot called the ...

To overcome the tradeoff between high-resolution data rate and longevity, the researchers turned to a group of materials known as fluorinated elastomers. Fluorinated materials, like Teflon, are ...

Most flat metalenses, which use millions of pillar-like nanostructures to focus light, are about the size of a piece of glitter. In 2019, Capasso and his team developed a centimeter-scale metalens ...