Arts & Culture Carving a place in outer space for the humanities Jennifer L. Roberts.Stephanie Mitchell/Harvard Staff Photographer Eileen O’Grady Harvard Staff Writer August 11, 2025 6 min read Cosmos ‘is as weird and astonishing as any great work of art,’ argues Jennifer Roberts, and navigating it requires ‘a new kind of ethics’ Jennifer Roberts is an art historian whose work orbits an unexpected subject: outer space. Fascinated by images that are created as a way of understanding ...| Harvard Gazette
Juan Pérez-Mercader, a senior research fellow in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences.Photos by Grace DuVal Science & Tech A step toward solving central mystery of life on Earth Experiment with synthetic self-assembling materials suggests how it all might have begun Kermit Pattison Harvard Staff Writer July 22, 2025 6 min read It is the ultimate mystery of biology: How did life begin? A team of Harvard scientists has brought us closer to an answer by creating artificial cell-like...| Harvard Gazette
Harvard team argues that the oldest meteorite strike to Earth may be more recent and smaller than claimed.| Harvard Gazette