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Attention, undivided
Jay Winsten of the Harvard School of Public Health hopes to recruit entertainers for a campaign to reduce distracted driving.
Tags: Alvin Powell, cellphones, Center for Health Communication, Distracted Driving, Harvard School of Public Health, HarvardScience, Health & Medicine, Jay Winsten, texting
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Urgent prep work
Humanitarian relief workers and climate scientists gathered in Cambridge this week to discuss the connection between climate change and humanitarian disasters and what relief workers can learn from science.
Tags: Alvin Powell, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Climate Change, Daniel Schrag, Environments & Sustainability, Global Warming, Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, Harvard University Center for the Environment, HarvardScience, humanitarian relief, Jennifer Leaning, Michael VanRooyen, Natural disaster, prediction
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The trouble with Kepler
A malfunction aboard NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope has jeopardized what has been one of the agency’s highest-profile missions, one that has revealed a galaxy rich with planets. The Gazette talked to Astronomy Professor Dimitar Sasselov, one of the mission’s principal investigators, about the implications.
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Using clay to grow bone
Researchers from Harvard-affiliated Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) are the first to report that synthetic silicate nanoplatelets (also known as layered clay) can induce stem cells to become bone cells without the need of additional bone-inducing factors.
Tags: Advanced Materials, Akhilesh Gaharwar, Ali Khademhosseini, Bone Growth, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, HarvardScience, Health & Medicine, Stem Cells, Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University
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‘Brainbow,’ version 2.0
Led by Joshua Sanes and Jeff Lichtman, a group of Harvard researchers has made a host of technical improvements in the “Brainbow” imaging technique.
Tags: Brain, brain imaging, Brainbow, Center for Brain Science, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, FAS, Fluorescent protein, Harvard, HarvardScience, Imaging, Jeff Lichtman, Joshua Sanes, Life Sciences, molecular and cellular biology, Nature Methods, nervous system, Neural imaging, Neuron, Peter Reuell
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Building on Einstein
A team at Tel Aviv University in Israel and the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics has just discovered an exoplanet using a new method that relies on Einstein’s special theory of relativity.
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Mourning that vexes the future
In a new paper, Professor of Psychology Richard McNally and graduate student Don Robinaugh say that while people suffering from complicated grief — a syndrome marked by intense, debilitating emotional distress and yearning for a lost loved one — had difficulty envisioning specific events in their future, those problems disappeared when they were asked to imagine an alternate future that included their lost loved one.
Tags: Clinical Psychological Science, Complicated grief, Don Robinaugh, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, FAS, Grief, Harvard, HarvardScience, Health & Medicine, Peter Reuell, Psychology, Richard McNally, Robinaugh
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Lower health care costs may last
A slowdown in the growth of U.S. health care costs could mean a savings of as much as $770 billion on Medicare spending over the next decade, Harvard economists say.
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