Articles tagged "harvard"

Scientists have found a part of the brain that controls aging, so they extended the lives of a bunch of middle-aged mice.

Its name is RoboBee.

As new web addresses become available, stakes are heightening for companies and other brands that have something to lose.

Thanks to a new data visualization project by a guy at Harvard, the epic, rapid-fire turfs wars that have shaped Mexico’s narco saga just got a lot clearer.

Beijing’s got air issues. Dust and fumes blow in from out-of-province factories and the city suffers from the exhaust of more than five million cars. Until recently, officials in the Chinese capital half-boasted that 2,000 new cars were joining its c…

_In early September 2004, Northwestern University student Ryan Bradley drove to Palo Alto to hang out with Zuckerberg and co. at their brogrammer bungalow to write a profile about them for_ "The Passenger":http://thepassenger.org/, _a magazine his fr…

Harvard University engineers have come up with a novel new approach to fabricating their micro robotic bees. The Harvard Monolithic Bee (or Mobee) is a bio-inspired robot, approximately on the scale of an actual bee, that can fly and work autonomousl…

What if da Vinci had built that flying machine he was always rambling on about? What if Tesla got the upper hand over Edison and gave us all free energy? What if Harry Lewis had invented Facebook in 1997? Up until a couple days ago, that last one was…

Gary Grice, aka GZA, aka "The Genius" was at Harvard the other day lecturing about a whole bunch of GZA-type stuff like kung-fu, nursery rhymes, "chess":http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/07/arts/music/07clan.html, TV forensics shows, and rapping. Post-l…

If anyone could have understood - really understood - the implications and mechanisms of Marc Hauser's monkey business, it was Hauser himself. And not just because the star Harvard evolutionary biologist was the one who, according to an internal scho…