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The Next Frontier In Clean Flight? Jet Fuel From City Waste

Key Takeaways A new study finds that sustainable aviation fuel made from municipal solid waste could reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 80-90% compared with traditional jet fuel. Municipal solid waste ...
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What Is Data Science? Definition, Skills, Applications & More

What is data science? Explore its applications, career paths, and more. Learn how Harvard SEAS can prepare you for success in this exciting field.
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Soft robotic, wearable device improves walking for individual with Parkinson’s disease

Key Takeaways Harvard SEAS and Boston University researchers used a soft, wearable robotic garment to eliminate gait-freezing episodes in a Parkinson’s disease patient, enabling longer, faster strides ...
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Ankle exosuit for community walking aims to give post-stroke wearers more independence

Every 40 seconds, someone in the United States has a stroke. According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, that totals about 795,000 strokes each year. More than 80 percent of ...
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A New Window into Earth’s Upper Atmosphere

Key Takeaways Harvard SEAS researchers have tested and validated lightweight nanofabricated structures that can passively float in the mesophere, which is about 45 miles above Earth’s surface. The ...
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3D-printed blood vessels bring artificial organs closer to reality

The original SWIFT method (left) printed hollow channels through living OBBs (green), but had no structure to contain fluid as it flowed through. Co-SWIFT (right) creates a cell-laden vessel (red) ...
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Robots to help with human habitation in space

The gripper switches between three modes, which are suited to tasks that require maintaining a secure hold on an object or applying high pressure, precise finger positioning or in-hand manipulation, ...
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The physics of a singing saw

Lola England de Valpine Professor of Applied Mathematics, of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, and of Physics ...
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Out of the lab and into patients’ hands

In the Harvard Move Lab, mannequins don jackets decorated with electronics and hanging wires. Design drawings are scattered on workbenches, and sewing machines sit among fabric-filled cubbies labeled ...
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Using sound to test devices, control qubits

Tarr-Coyne Professor of Applied Physics and of Electrical Engineering ...
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A long-lasting, stable solid-state lithium battery

“Our research shows that the solid-state battery could be fundamentally different from the commercial liquid electrolyte lithium-ion battery,” said Li. “By studying their fundamental thermodynamics, ...
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A perfect storm of fire and ice may have led to snowball Earth

Explaining a "once-in-a-billion-year event"What caused the largest glaciation event in Earth’s history, known as ‘snowball Earth’? Geologists and climate scientists have been searching for the answer ...