2025

Andrew Knoll, Fisher Professor of Natural History and Earth and Planetary Sciences, Emeritus, was featured in Harvard Magazine's Five Questions . Knoll, discussed his research on the early history of life and the evolution of Earth's surface environments...

Congratulations to Lily Shapiro (Gonzalo Giribet, Advisor) awarded the Putnam Expedition Grant from the Museum of Comparative Zoology for the project, "Characterizing the Eoperipatus Velvet Worms of Singapore."

A new study published in eLife suggests that the complex folds of the mammalian brain may arise from surprisingly simple physical principles rather than species-specific genetic programs alone. An international team of researchers including Professor L...

Congratulations to IB Concentrator, Asher Montgomery, awarded the Michael Rockefeller Traveling Fellowship. The fellowship, established in 1965, provides students the opportunity to travel and immerse themselves in a foreign culture for one year. Asher...

Congratulations to Kainoa Paul (Andrew Davies Lab) awarded the Michael Rockefeller Traveling Fellowship for the project titled, " Exploring Stewardship and Community Along Aotearoa’s Te Araroa, 'The Long Pathway." Kainoa will be traveling to Aotearoa New...

Congratulations to IB concentrator Ashwin Sivakumar (Scott Edwards Lab) named Marshall Scholar. Ashwin serves on the advisory board for the Pasadena Audubon Society and the student board of the Harvard Museums of Science and Culture. Sivakumar, who hopes...

Harvard researchers have uncovered evidence that some of the planet’s oldest seed plants use heat, rather than color or scent alone, to communicate with their pollinators — a discovery that reshapes scientists’ understanding of how early plant–animal...

Parasites may be among the most diverse organisms on Earth, yet many remain undocumented—often hiding in plain sight. Now, a surprising discovery tucked away in a museum collection has revealed an entirely new kind of host–parasite relationship: ticks...

Humanity’s relationship with healing plants stretches back tens of thousands of years, long before pharmacies and synthetic drugs. A new study published in Current Biology builds on this long history, revealing that some of today’s richest reservoirs of...

A set of spiny fossil limbs pulled from ancient rock in Morocco has pushed the origin story of “sea scorpions” back in time, revealing that these fearsome predators were already highly specialized hunters nearly half a billion years ago. A new study...