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• Harvard Medical School grad heads for International Space Station Noviembre 16, 2009
  In an era when elementary schoolchildren can create exciting new worlds and explore them with the click of a computer mouse, will we again see bold explorers like Lewis and Clark or the Mercury Seven astronauts? Will we follow modern Jasons and their Argonauts through space in an age in which the nation’s deficit is soaring and equally alluring worlds in our […]
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• Researchers ‘NOTCH’ a victory in war on cancer Noviembre 10, 2009
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• Speeding new medicines and technologies to the developing world Noviembre 9, 2009
  A consortium of Harvard and five other leading research universities and the Association of University Technology Managers (AUTM) have endorsed a far-reaching “Statement of Principles and Strategies for the Equitable Dissemination of Medical Technologies” in the developing world.read more
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• Quantum gas microscope offers glimpse of quirky ultracold atoms Noviembre 5, 2009
  Harvard physicists have created a quantum gas microscope that can be used to observe single atoms at temperatures so low the particles follow the rules of quantum mechanics, behaving in bizarre ways. The work, published this week in the journal Nature, represents the first time scientists have detected single atoms in a crystalline structure made solely of l […]
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• Materials scientists find better model for glass creation Noviembre 4, 2009
  Harvard materials scientists have come up with what they believe is a new way to model the formation of glasses, a type of amorphous solid that includes common window glass.Glasses form through the process of vitrification, in which a glass-forming liquid cools and slowly becomes a solid whose molecules, though they’ve stopped moving, are not permanently loc […]
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• Orphan army ants join nearby colonies Noviembre 4, 2009
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• Face it: Octubre 30, 2009
  Gay men are most attracted to the most masculine-faced men, while straight men prefer the most feminine-faced women, according to the results of a new study by a Harvard researcher.The findings suggest that regardless of sexual orientation, men’s brains are wired for attraction to sexually dimorphic faces — those with facial features that are most synonymous […]
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• To tell the truth Octubre 29, 2009
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• Darkness with the light Octubre 26, 2009
  Adult survivors of childhood cancer have an increased risk of suicidal thoughts, even decades after their cancer treatments have ended, according to a study led by Harvard researchers at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (DFCI). read more
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• Finding the seat of language? Octubre 23, 2009
  A team of Harvard and University of California, San Diego (UCSD), researchers report having pinpointed an area of the brain where three essential components of language — word identification, grammar, and word pronunciation — are processed.Ned T.read more
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