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Out of the lab and into patients’ hands

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 ...
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Alumni profile: Raymond Wang, A.B. '20

Modernizing airports with autonomous baggage tractorsRaymond Wang’s first airplane flight left a pretty big impression on him. His family moved from China to Vancouver when he was 2 years old, and it ...
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Materials Science & Mechanical Engineering

Materials Science & Mechanical Engineering Degrees @ Harvard. Design the future! Explore materials, mechanics & innovation.
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The metalens meets the stars

Metalenses have been used to image microscopic features of tissue and resolve details smaller than a wavelength of light. Now they are going bigger. Researchers at the Harvard John A. Paulson School ...
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Robots to help with human habitation in space

The gripper switches between three modes, which are suited to tasks that require maintaining a secure hold on an object or applying high pressure, precise finger positioning or in-hand manipulation, ...
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Calculating solar geoengineering’s technical costs

Research describes how anti-global warming stratospheric aerosol program could work ...
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Imperiled information

It seems that every few weeks, news breaks of another company attacked by hackers, with personal data provided by thousands or millions of individual users stolen. But how dangerous are these data ...
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Talking with whales

This week, a team of scientists in partnership with the Government of Dominica and the National Geographic Society, officially launched an ambitious, interdisciplinary research initiative to listen to ...
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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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Intelligent liquid

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.
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Soft robotic wearable restores arm function for people with ALS

Key Takeaways Harvard SEAS and Massachusetts General Hospital researchers developed a soft, fabric-based robotic wearable that uses inflatable actuators to assist upper arm and shoulder movement in ...
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The RoboBee flies solo

Changes to the Robobee — including an additional pair of wings and improvements to the actuators and transmission ratio — made the vehicle more efficient and allowed the addition of solar cells and an ...