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Celebrating Cinema

Hidden gem: the Harvard Film Archive

by Nell Porter Brown

Outside-In Ur-banism

Evidence of ancient urbanism at the Mesopotamian settlement of Tell Brak....

by Paul Gleason

Shedding Light on Life

The scenes are familiar from biology textbooks. A long string of DNA is copied to form a matching strand. A virus infects a cell by stealing through its membrane.

by Courtney Humphries

Set Design for Grease

Theatrical set designer Derek McLane ’80 shows how his work progresses — from initial sketches on a yellow legal pad through the musical’s finished sets...

Joanne Chang’s Sticky Buns

Get Chang’s sticky bun recipe and see how they’re made...

Finding Physics in Everyday Objects

Watch applied mathematician Mahadevan create wrinkles, folds, and a flutter in this Harvard Magazine video...

The Physics of the Familiar

Photograph by Jim Harrison Lakshminarayanan Mahadevan “Just because something is familiar doesn’t mean you understand it. That...

by Jonathan Shaw

Robotic Fly

Watch a microrobotic fly from Professor Robert Wood's laboratory...