A possible aid for navigators
Star charts, compasses, sextants, even dead reckoning. For centuries, sailors have used one or all of those to determine their position on the globe and to help them navigate from one place to...
View ArticleDeep glow
The dance began with darkness, and a voice: “The ocean is alive.” Green lights in the shape of human bodies flicked on and off from both sides of the auditorium. Living lights. “Imagine a world where...
View ArticleChemist Thérèse Wilson dies at 88
Thérèse Wilson, a chemist at Harvard for more than five decades and an expert in chemiluminescence and bioluminescence, died peacefully in Cambridge on April 28. Born in Brussels to Frédèric and...
View ArticleWoody Hastings, 87
J. Woodland “Woody” Hastings, the Paul C. Mangelsdorf Professor of Natural Sciences Emeritus in Harvard’s Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, passed away on Wednesday, according to his...
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