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by Apurva Govandefigures by MacKenzie Mauger North Africa’s vast, arid Sahara Desert region covers 3.5 million square miles, which is just about the size of the United States. Sunlight hits the Sahara an average of 3,000 hours every year. Covering…

Potty-training cows could help us combat climate change.

by Lauren Granatafigures by Xiaomeng Han As Covid-19-related deaths overwhelmed the country in 2020, drug overdose deaths furtively took their own toll. The opioid epidemic is still surging, but a new Rhode Island law aims to combat the problem…

Scientists have discovered another piece in the puzzle of how tabby cats get their stripes.

Asexual species do not have genetic variability like humans, and most animals, do. Despite that, they can still adapt to environmental changes using modifications to their DNA known as epigenetic changes.

Despite not having been able to talk for 15 years, a paralyzed man can now communicate using electrodes implanted in his brain.

Researchers have grown a miniature brain that also develops eye-like structures.

Animals frightened by a close call with a predator eat less and produce fewer offspring in the future.

Alaska is experiencing fast and expansive consequences of climate change, resulting in an increase in greenness in Arctic areas.

Manasvi Verma is a 2nd year PhD student in the Biological and Biomedical Sciences Program at Harvard Medical School studying host-microbiome interactions in the human gut. Corena Loeb is a first-year Ph.D. student in the Harvard-MIT program in Speech,…