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Author Discussion: Piety and Patienthood in Medieval Islam

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Ahmed Ragab, HDS Richard T. Watson Associate Professor of Science and Religion, discusses his recent publication, Piety and Patienthood in Medieval Islam. Mark Jordan (HDS), Charles Stang (HDS), and Nancy Khalek (Brown) will serve as respondents.

Hamza Awarded 2018 MESA Student Paper Prize

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Hearty congratulations to HS Grad student Shireen Hamza! Her paper " The Ḥammām as a Public Space: Health, Labor and Desire in Late Medieval Bathhouses" was acknowledged with 2018 Middle East Studies Association (MESA) Student Paper Prize at its annual...

Harvard works to embed ethics in computer science curriculum

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Barbara Grosz has a fantasy that every time a computer scientist logs on to write an algorithm or build a system, a message will flash across the screen that asks, “Have you thought about the ethical implications of what you’re doing?” Until that day...

Evidence of atherosclerosis found in 16th-century mummies from Greenland

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What secrets lie in the hearts of our ancestors? Signs of cardiovascular disease, for one, as a team of cardiovascular-imaging experts from Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) recently helped discover. Through a collaboration with an international team of...

New technique enables subcellular imaging of brain tissue 1,000X faster than other methods

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In the late 19th century, the Spanish anatomist Santiago Ramón y Cajal laid the foundation for modern neuroscience with a microscope, a pen, and some paper. Applying a cell-staining technique to samples of brain tissue, he produced thousands of detailed...

Arnold Arboretum’s role as a living lab grows as environmental issues mount

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Andrew Groover celebrates the complexity of trees, and makes it his life’s work to unlock how they adapt to their environments. It’s knowledge that’s critical for the U.S. Forest Service research geneticist — he works in California, where concerns about...

Harvard researchers share views on future, ethics of gene editing

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Medicine is at a turning point, on the cusp of major change as disruptive technologies such as gene, RNA, and cell therapies enable scientists to approach diseases in new ways. The swiftness of this change is being driven by innovations such as CRISPR...

A virtual reality experience of being inside an exploded star

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Cassiopeia A, the youngest known supernova remnant in the Milky Way, is the remains of a star that exploded almost 400 years ago. The star was approximately 15 to 20 times the mass of our sun and sat in the Cassiopeia constellation, almost 11,000 light...

Robots with sticky feet can go where humans can’t fit

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Jet engines can have up to 25,000 individual parts, making regular maintenance a tedious task that can take over a month per engine. Many components are located deep inside the engine and cannot be inspected without taking the machine apart, adding time...

Inosine could be a potential route to the first RNA, Harvard study says

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Prehistoric Earth, bombarded with asteroids, rife with bubbling geothermal pools, would seem an inhospitable place. But somewhere, the right chemicals combined in the precise sequence needed to form the building blocks of life. How? For decades...

Harvard study models forelimbs of echidnas to shed light on evolution

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Mammals can use their forelimbs to swim, fly, jump, climb, dig, and nearly everything in between, yet the question of how all that diversity evolved has remained a vexing one for scientists. To help answer that, Harvard researchers are turning to one of...

Study uses rings in teeth to understand the environment Neanderthals faced

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Scientists are painting the clearest picture yet of what life may have been like for Neanderthals living in Southern France some 250,000 years ago, and to do it, they’re using an unlikely day-to-day record of what their environment was like — their teeth...