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Reengineering privacy, post-Snowden

Bruce Schneier, a Fellow at Harvard Law School's Berkman Center for Internet and Society, talks with Edward Snowden about government surveillance and the effectiveness of privacy tools like encryption ...
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Harnessing bacteria to fight ocean pollution

Students’ synthetic biology project claims gold at international competition ...
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A toolkit for transformable materials

Metamaterials — materials whose function is determined by structure, not composition — have been designed to bend light and sound, transform from soft to stiff, and even dampen seismic waves from ...
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Mapping the circuit of our internal clock

What’s that old saying about Mussolini? Say what you will but he made the trains run on time. Well, the suprachiasmatic nucleus — SCN for short — makes everything in the body run on time. The SCN is ...
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A better understanding of soft artificial muscles

“This research gives us a simple way to predict how soft filaments will respond to twisting and stretching,” said Charles. “Going forward, our work might also be relevant in other situations involving ...
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Science in a bubble

Drop a paperclip into a glass of water and it will quickly sink to the bottom. But gently set that same paperclip onto the water’s surface and it will float. Why does the paper clip behave differently ...
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Students place third in international programming contest

A team of students from Harvard University won third prize in the 40th annual ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest. The team from the John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied ...
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Understanding pollution in a pristine rainforest

The GOAmazon field campaign will enable scientists to study the intricacies of the natural state of the Amazon rainforest atmosphere and land systems, and how these may be perturbed by human ...
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Change the shape, change the sound

Algorithm to 3D print vibrational sounds What if we could ease the design of musical instruments while also making their shapes wildly different, and use these underlying techniques to reduce unwanted ...
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An Unexpected Breakthrough in Flat Optics

Key Takeaways Harvard SEAS researchers have found that silica, long thought to lack the right properties for optical metasurfaces, can sometimes outperform standard high-index materials like titanium ...
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Using math to improve disaster recovery

Student develops model to help FEMA provide resources for survivors ...
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Clearing the air in China

Chris Nielsen, Executive Director of the Harvard China Project, has been studying energy and pollution for years. His project links economics with atmospheric science, examining the impact of ...