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Tsinghua University Requires Students to Learn How to Swim

Mar 30, 2017 11:25 PM EDT

For the prestigious Tsinghua University, dubbed as the Harvard of the East, every students who want to graduate from the university should possess a key skill: swimming.

Improved Bionic Leaf Converts Sunlight into Liquid Fuels such as Isopropanol

Arthur Dominic Villasanta |

Jun 03, 2016 07:59 PM EDT

That's better than the efficiency of natural photosynthesis at converting water sunlight and air into stored energy.

The researchers used structural knowledge of Cas9 to guide engineering of a highly specific genome-editing tool.

Gene Editing Now Safer and More Precise? New Technique Still Raises Ethical Concerns

Ana Verayo |

Dec 02, 2015 06:40 AM EST

A new CRISPR-Cas9 system that can edit human DNA more precisely and now safer still raises doubts in terms of ethical implications.

A Robot bee is flying, carrying a strand of wire up in the air.

Harvard’s RoboBee Is Also A Submarine!

Darlene Tverdohleb |

Oct 01, 2015 11:19 AM EDT

Harvard researchers' new breakthrough in making RoboBee fly, hover, and swim as a submarine.

7,000 Year-old Mummies Melting Because of Climate Change

Ana Verayo |

Mar 10, 2015 09:03 AM EDT

This type of decay was detected across many ancient relics.

Harvard and Yale Scientists Create New Technique for Safer GMOs

Marco Foronda |

Jan 22, 2015 09:11 AM EST

The new organism has multi-virus resistance.

Harvard Law to overhaul sexual harassment policy after U.S. violations

Raymond Legaspi |

Dec 31, 2014 05:09 AM EST

Harvard Law School would change the way student sexual harassment complaints are handled after federal investigators concluded the school was in violation of laws, the U.S. Department of Education announced on Tuesday.

Chinese Economy Won't Continue to Defy Growth Odds, Harvard Study Shows

Kat De Guzman |

Oct 27, 2014 05:55 AM EDT

China's economy has just increased by 7.3 percent as they have announced the third quarter year-on-year report, and it has been seen by the international community as China's "new normal" as opposed to its slow growth.

Medical Center in Boston with Possible Ebola Patient Quarantined

Andy Vitalicio |

Oct 12, 2014 04:49 PM EDT

A medical facility in Braintree in Greater Boston is now under quarantine after a patient was isolated outside of the facility with a possible case of Ebola.

China is in North America? Read What U.S. Vice President Biden Told Harvard Students

Andy Vitalicio |

Oct 06, 2014 04:28 AM EDT

U.S. Vice President Joe Biden is getting more "gaffe-tastic" by the day. In a speech before students at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, he clumped China, together with Mexico and Canada, as part of North America that will account for much of the growth in global energy supply in the future.

Harvard Endowment Bigger Than Half the World's Economies

Ren Benavidez |

Sep 26, 2014 04:03 AM EDT

Harvard University's endowment reported a 15.4 percent investment gain for the fiscal year 2014, which brought the endowment assets to US$36. 4 billion, the largest reported in the country's universities.

Harvard Makes Robots with No Strings Attached

Staff Reporter |

Sep 12, 2014 05:47 AM EDT

Researchers from Harvard's School for Engineering and Applied Sciences and the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering have developed the first soft robot, a quadriped capable of standing up and walking by itself, without wires that constantly connects it to computers and a power source.

Harvard University Receives Largest Donation Ever of US$350M From Hong Kong Philanthropist

Desiree Sison |

Sep 10, 2014 02:45 AM EDT

Harvard University has received U.S. $350 million from the estate of a late Asian philanthropist--the largest ever gift or donation it has received in its 378-year history.