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Boston Children’s Hospital, SEAS, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and NTT Research Announce THUMPIN’ Initiative to Develop Living, Bioengineered Heart Tissues for C…

Up to five-year and up to $29.6 million project aims to create living cardiac components, and ultimately a complete heart, ...
Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

Using AI in the Global Fight Against HIV

The Harvard team developed the AI-guided approach based on previous HIV-LIFT incentive campaigns. In retrospective ...
Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

Jennifer Lewis elected to National Academy of Medicine

Lewis joins 100 new members of the Academy this year, including 13 at Harvard. Election to the National Academy of Medicine ...
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Deaths from fossil fuel emissions higher than previously thought

Our study adds to the mounting evidence that air pollution from ongoing dependence on fossil fuels is detrimental to global health. We can’t in good conscience continue to rely on fossil fuels, when ...
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Predicting weather subseasons with machine learning

Getting information about tomorrow’s weather can be as easy as tapping an application on your smartphone. Modeling weather patterns years down the line is the job of climate scientists. But what about ...
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Microscopic Mirrors for Future Quantum Networks

Key Takeaways SEAS and physics researchers report a new way to make ultra-smooth, microscopic mirrors that form high-performance optical resonators, or cavities. The technique harnesses silicon’s ...
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Computer Science

Why Pursue a Computer Science Degree? Computer Science at the Harvard School of Engineering studies both the fundamentals of computation and computation’s interaction with the world. Computer ...
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Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

Postdoctoral Fellow in Bioengineering Contact helena_freirehaddad@seas.harvard.edu ...
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Preventing poaching

The software produces a map that breaks a park down into squares—the default is 1 kilometer by 1 kilometer—and predicts the likelihood there will be poaching activity in each square. “The challenge is ...
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Racing with the best

Austin grew up watching auto racing with his father in Michigan and developed a passion for the kind of hands-on mechanical engineering needed to build an elite race car. While he initially came to ...
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New Device Design Could Miniaturize Photonics, Quantum Technologies

New research from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) paves the way to smaller and more efficient components for telecommunications, quantum communication, ...
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The Physics of a Squeak

Key Takeaways Squeaks from soft-on-rigid interfaces, like shoes on a smooth floor, are driven by opening slip pulses that rapidly detach and reattach the interface at near-supersonic speeds. The ...