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Building Roads in Africa? Send in the Troops
"African armed forces possess extensive human resources and equipment needed to build infrastructure projects. They regularly use such facilities during emergencies and are at the forefront of developing robust systems such as smart microgrid systems that can provide decentralized power supply for rural Africa. Read More…
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A Hidden Population of Exotic Neutron Stars
A type of neutron star that has a relatively slow spin rate and generates occasional large blasts of X-rays. Read More…
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Crime-fighting platform wins President’s Challenge
Nucleik, Flume, PlenOptika, and TerraTek share $100,000 to advance social ventures (Harvard Gazette) Read More…
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ATARiS hits the jackpot
Computational tool helps drive RNAi research Read More…
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Venture fund based at Harvard celebrates first year in business
To mark milestone, first Experimenter Award presented to David Malan Read More…
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Salil Vadhan named Simons Investigator
Award offers computer scientist a 5-year appointment with $100,000 of research support per year Read More…
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Meet a physician-scientist: Rameen Beroukhim
Patients’ needs drive Beroukhim’s brain cancer research Read More…
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The trouble with KeplerA 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. Read More…
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From The Harvard GazetteBeautiful "flowers" self-assemble in a beaker
Elaborate nanostructures blossom from a chemical reaction perfected at Harvard Read More…
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