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The Smoky Signature of Climate Change

Key Takeaways A new Harvard study pinpoints human-caused climate change as a key driver of western U.S. wildfire activity over the last three decades, accounting for 65% of total fire emissions from ...
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Former Sunderland labmates team up at George Washington

Jahred Liddie is a postdoctoral researcher at George Washington University in Hu’s lab. He worked in the Sunderland lab as an undergraduate, Masters, and PhD student. What brought you to the ...
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A springtail-like jumping robot

To go airborne, the robot uses what’s called latch-mediated spring actuation, in which potential energy is stored in an elastic element – the furcula – that can be deployed in milliseconds like a ...
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Mapping connections in a neuronal network

John A. and Elizabeth S. Armstrong Professor of Engineering and Applied Sciences ...
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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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Concerning levels of PFAS in fish miles away from large contamination source

Fish can accumulate high levels of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), even far from sources of contamination, according to a new study by researchers at The Harvard John A. Paulson School of ...
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Bringing GPT to the grid

The promise and limitations of large-language models in the energy sector ...
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EPA underestimates methane emissions from landfills, urban areas

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is underestimating methane emissions from landfills, urban areas and U.S. states, according to a new study led by researchers at the Harvard John A. Paulson ...
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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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“Quacking” into computer programming

In December, the students presented their final projects — made with the Duck’s help — at the annual CS50 Fair in the basement of the Northwest Science Building. Topics ranged from games and social ...
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A long-lasting neural probe

Recording the activity of large populations of single neurons in the brain over long periods of time is crucial to further our understanding of neural circuits, to enable novel medical device-based ...
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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 ...