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Despite having no legs and an essentially long, tube form, certain snakes can rise nearly straight upright, lifting more than 70% of their body length into the air without toppling over. For example, b rown tree snakes and scrub pythons can rise...

Congratulations to Wendy Valencia-Montoya (PhD ‘25, Naomi Pierce, Advisor) recipient of the Harold M. Weintraub Award from the Fred Hutch Cancer Center. Wendy is one of 12 recipients honored for their exceptional achievements of graduate studies in the...

A chance discovery on a Moroccan hillside challenges long-held assumptions about mysterious wrinkle-like textures preserved in ancient rocks. In 2016, while hiking in Morocco, geologist Rowan Martindale, associate professor at The University of Texas at...

A new study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , from Professor L. Mahadevan's lab found that injecting just the right amount of randomness into how robots move can prevent gridlock and dramatically boost efficiency in...

The course is simply titled Tree , yet it is anything but simple for Harvard freshman. FRSEMR52C requires no classroom or textbooks. Instead, Professor Ned Friedman — Director of the Arboretum — holds class among the trees. Designed in 2020, the course...

Carrie Albertin joins OEB as Assistant Professor and Curator of Malacology in the MCZ. Carrie’s lab investigates one of biology’s most fascinating questions: how new forms and features evolve. Using soft-bodied cephalopods — squid and octopus — as model...

A new exhibit at Harvard’s Museum of Natural History, Making the Invisible Visible, invites visitors to explore a hidden world of tiny creatures preserved on microscope slides. The slides are part of a collection in the Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ)...