Videos
Lights! Microscopes! Action!
View clips from the laboratories of several Harvard researchers that demonstrate advances in optical microscopy from "Shedding Light on Life" in the May-June 2008 issue...
Explore the history of an ancient city
Hear Jason Ur discuss Tell Brak as it was then and is today...
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...