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University stops short of fully divesting its $36bn endowment from coal, oil and gas but green groups welcome the breakthrough after a five-year campaign

Harvard University's Daniel Nocera is a busy man. Last week, we reported on his announcement of a superbug that consumes carbon dioxide and creates fuel, a major development in energy technology. Now, the news is out that...

Water scarcity is a problem that will likely only become worse as time wears on, meaning we need to find a way to collect it under harsh conditions. Harvard University researchers have been working on a method of harvesting...

The recently completed building, which now houses Harvard's Anthropology Department, is a 35,000-square-foot LEED Gold-certified facility which won the 2016 Hobson Award given by the AIA for best new architecture project...

We've written many, many times before about the promising uses of 3D printing when it comes to medicine -- doctors are already using for everything from crafting low-cost prosthetics, to mending or even replacing broken bones,...

We've written many, many times before about the promising uses of 3D printing when it comes to medicine -- doctors are already using for everything from crafting low-cost prosthetics, to mending or even replacing broken bones,...

OFIS architects and AKT II teamed up with Harvard University Graduate School of Design students to design and build a beautiful yet practical shelter to withstand Slovenia’s extreme alpine climate...

World’s richest university will appear in court on Friday to seek dismissmal of lawsuit brought by students calling for it to pull investments out of coal, oil and gas companies

“Blood money,” they’re calling it, and it’s a lot of blood—a total of $79.5 million that Harvard ploughed into oil and gas companies during the third quarter of 2015. That’s up by about a factor of seven from...

Thanks to a team of Harvard scientists, being called a "shrimp" will no longer amount to an insult. The University's Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering isolated chitin in the arthropod's exoskeleton to make...

Harvard Scientists are working on a new renewable energy system that can harvest the power from the earth's infrared energy. Our planet is constantly releasing hundreds of millions of gigawatts of infrared radiation into...

Harvard Scientists are working on a new renewable energy system that can harvest the power of infrared energy from the Earth. Our own planet is constantly releasing hundreds of millions gigawatts of infrared radiation (which...

Due to their federally protected status and careful management, it is easy to assume that national parks are safe from the harm of human activity. Unfortunately, many of the parks across the country are vulnerable to nutrient...

It's clear that global warming is going to require some serious adaptation. While some life on this planet digs in its heels, other lifeforms-- like trees -- are already adapting to climate change. A recent study in the journal...

As technology advances, gadgets and gizmos are becoming smaller and smaller. From medical devices to bee-sized robots, developments in engineering have made for incredibly tiny electronics. To accommodate these diminutive...