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Jun 30, 2025

Slithering Snakes: The Science Behind the Motion of a Young Anaconda

Research offers insight into how snakes move, potentially leading to robotics applications

Applied Mathematics, Applied Physics, Research

Jul 21, 2025

Designing Better Brain Shunts

Fluid dynamics model could help hydrocephalus patients

Bioengineering, Health / Medicine, Materials Science & Mechanical Engineering, Research

illustration of laser consisting of series of colored rings

Jul 9, 2025

Tunable Laser Light

Ring design could be used in telecom, medicine and more

Applied Physics, Electrical Engineering, Optics / Photonics, Research

flowers outside SEC building on Harvard campus

Jul 15, 2025

3 tech solutions to societal needs will get help moving to market

Harvard Office of Technology Development

Projects targeting heart health, data demands, quantum computing win Grid Accelerator awards

Applied Physics, Bioengineering, Health / Medicine, Materials, Materials Science & Mechanical Engineering, Optics / Photonics, Quantum Engineering, Research

May 6, 2025

Nick Trefethen elected to National Academy of Sciences

Renowned expert in numerical analysis joins new class of 120

AI / Machine Learning, Applied Computation, Applied Mathematics, Awards, Computational Science & Engineering

visualization with arrows and spheres of atomic charge dynamics in barium titanate

Jun 6, 2025

Modeling electric response of materials, a million atoms at a time

Machine-learning framework predicts effects of electric fields

AI / Machine Learning, Computational Science & Engineering, Data Sciences, Materials, Materials Science & Mechanical Engineering, Research

artistic representation of polymer molecules against a color background

Apr 22, 2025

Brandon R. Clarke named an Arnold O. Beckman Postdoctoral Fellow

Foundation awards $4.3 million to 14 research fellows

Academics, Bioengineering, Materials Science & Mechanical Engineering

artistic representation of metasurface quantum graphs

Jul 24, 2025

Could Metasurfaces Be The Next Quantum Information Processors?

Researchers blend theoretical insight and precision experiments to entangle photons on an ultra-thin chip

Applied Physics, Electrical Engineering, Optics / Photonics, Quantum Engineering, Research

Artist's impression of Earth from another planet

Jul 2, 2025

Extraterrestrial Habitats: Bioplastics for Life Beyond Earth

Researchers demonstrate algae growth under Mars-like pressures

Environmental Science & Engineering, Planetary Science, Research

Jun 9, 2025

Robots made of linked particle chains

‘Link-bots’ can move, explore, cooperate without sensing or computation

Applied Mathematics, Applied Physics, Materials Science & Mechanical Engineering, Research, Robotics

Mar 24, 2025

A multimodal light manipulator

New interferometer could replace beam-splitting waveguides for fiber optics

Applied Physics, Electrical Engineering, Optics / Photonics, Research

Aug 19, 2025

A Wearable Robot That Learns

New control algorithm personalizes user experience for stroke, ALS patients

AI / Machine Learning, Electrical Engineering, Health / Medicine, Materials Science & Mechanical Engineering, Research, Robotics, Wearable Devices

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