SEAS researchers Peter Huybers and Cristian Proistosescu resolved a major conflict in estimates of how much the Earth will warm in response to a doubling of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.Read the full story here

The uncertain future of energy and climate

Nov 17th, 2016 13m 45s

Michael McElroy, Gilbert Butler Professor of Environmental Studies at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, argues that the United States must move towards a zero-carbon future, replacing its reliance on fossil

Superconductivity vs. Spintronics

Oct 18th, 2016 11m 32s

Applied physicist Hechen Ren joins the podcast to discuss the title of her paper,"Controlled Finite Momentum Pairing and Spatially Varying Order Parameter in Proximitized HgTe Quantum Wells." It gets spooky.Read more about this episode's resea

AI and Life in 2030

Sep 12th, 2016 13m 14s

Artificial intelligence has already transformed our lives — from the autonomous cars on the roads to the robotic vacuums and smart thermostats in our homes. Over the next 15 years, AI technologies will continue to make inroads in nearly every

Multilayer Dielectric Elastomers for Fast, Programmable Actuation without Prestretch

Jul 20th, 2016 8m 24s

Soft robots do a lot of things well but they’re not exactly known for their speed. The artificial muscles that move soft robots, called actuators, tend to rely on hydraulics or pneumatics, which are slow to respond and difficult to store. Diele

Evidence of a first-order phase transition to metallic hydrogen

Jun 30th, 2016 7m 20s

Earlier this year, in an experiment about five-feet long, Harvard University researchers say they observed evidence of the abrupt transition of hydrogen from liquid insulator to liquid metal. It is one of the first times such a transition has e

Functional network inference of the suprachiasmatic nucleus

Jun 9th, 2016 7m 1s

Researchers from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, the University of California Santa Barbara, and Washington University in St. Louis have shown for the first time how neurons in the SCN are connected to ea

Metalenses at visible wavelengths: Diffraction-limited focusing and subwavelength resolution imaging

Jun 2nd, 2016 8m 27s

Curved lenses, like those in cameras or telescopes, are stacked in order to reduce distortions and resolve a clear image — that's why telephoto lenses are so long and high-powered microscopes so big. But what if you could replace those stacks w

Broadband and chiral binary dielectric meta-holograms

May 23rd, 2016 7m 34s

A very small hologram that can be used across all different wavelengths of light and can be programmed with different images based on the direction of light that works because it's made from a material that doesn't absorb certain light and has

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