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The Ginkgo’s Secrets: A Video
Ginkgo expert Peter Del Tredici shares tidbits about his favorite “living fossil.”
10.24.11
Life: The Edited Version
George Church has developed tools for large-scale editing of the genome as fast and easy as word processing.
10.19.11
A Bet and a Black Hole
Astronomers at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics confirm the presence of a black hole in the constellation Cygnus.
10.19.11
The Living Dinosaur
Peter Del Tredici’s search for the wild ginkgo and the secret of its uniquely long survival
10.19.11
Spheres of Knowledge
An exhibition at the Sackler reveals the connections among Renaissance art, invention, and the evolution of science.
10.19.11
Ginkgo and Memory
Ginkgo products have become a hot commodity in the twenty-first century, but do they actually boost memory?
10.19.11
A New Prescription for Drug Development
Harvard Medical School announces a new initiative in systems pharmacology to quicken the pace of drug discovery.
10.18.11
Digital Kids
A report on young children’s digital media consumption, related to the work of Michael Rich
10.18.11
The Mediatrician
Former Hollywood filmmaker Michael Rich of HMS studies how media affect youth.
10.18.11
Sundials in Early Modern Europe
Photographs of early modern printed-paper sundials
10.11.11
The Seven Liberal Arts
Jan Sadeler’s engravings of The Seven Liberal Arts
10.11.11
Inventions in Early Modern Europe
Images from Stradanus’s “Nova reperta,” a series of engravings representing technological innovations of the modern age from the perspective of a practicing artist
10.11.11
Putting Stock in Your Doc
In Your Medical Mind, Jerome Groopman and Pamela Hartzband write about beliefs and medical choices.
10.5.11
Cervical Cancer, Deep History, Diagnostic Chips
Professors Goldie, Smail, and Whitesides all work on topics featured in one day’s New York Times