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Jun 11, 2025

Cyborg tadpoles with soft, flexible neural implants

Thin electrode arrays integrate seamlessly into developing embryos’ brains

Bioengineering, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Materials, Materials Science & Mechanical Engineering, Research

Mar 26, 2025

From Capasso lab to your living room

Harvard Gazette

Startup produces millions of mini-lenses for consumer electronics

Applied Mathematics, Applied Physics, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Entrepreneurship, Research, Technology

Nov 12, 2025

The Next Frontier In Clean Flight? Jet Fuel From City Waste

Research explores sustainable aviation fuel from municipal solid waste

Environmental Science & Engineering, Research

Aug 19, 2025

A Wearable Robot That Learns

New control algorithm personalizes user experience for stroke, ALS patients

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

portrait of Na Li, professor in electrical engineering at Harvard

Jan 14, 2025

Professor Na Li recognized for work in control, learning, optimization

Ruberti Young Researcher Prize awarded by IEEE

Applied Mathematics, Electrical & Computer Engineering

several balls rolling down an inclined plane

Mar 20, 2025

Getting the ball rolling

Researchers probe physics of irregular objects on inclined planes

Applied Mathematics, Applied Physics, Research

Mar 13, 2025

Traveling waves integrate spatial information through time

Kempner Institute

How do neurons in the visual cortex perform coordinated computation and share information over long distances?

AI / Machine Learning, Applied Computation, Computational Science & Engineering, Computer Science

Feb 27, 2025

Spinning into quantum research

Harvard Kenneth C. Griffin Graduate School of Arts and Sciences

Ph.D. student Aaron Day shares some key everyday items he uses in researching semiconductors for quantum applications

Applied Physics, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Graduate Student Profile, Materials, Quantum Engineering, Research, Technology

A scanning electron microscope image of a bilayer metasurface

Apr 1, 2025

Doubling down on metasurfaces

Bilayer device can control many forms of polarized light

Applied Physics, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Materials Science & Mechanical Engineering, Optics / Photonics, Research

Dec 14, 2024

How future heat may kill millions of healthy people

Harvard Salata Institute

Even healthy people cannot survive the extreme heat beginning to afflict large regions of the world, writes climate scientist Kaighin McColl, explaining his new research into uncompensable heat stress.

Climate, Environment, Environmental Science & Engineering

Artist's rendering of Mars 4 billion years ago with oceans on its surface.

Jan 27, 2025

Explaining persistent hydrogen in Mars’ atmosphere

New insight into Red Planet’s hot again, cold again history

Environmental Science & Engineering, Planetary Science, Research

optical micrograph of microwave-optical transducer device

Apr 2, 2025

A router for photons

Transducer could enable superconducting quantum networks

Applied Physics, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Industry, Materials, Materials Science & Mechanical Engineering, Optics / Photonics, Quantum Engineering, Research, Technology

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