How can we keep transplanted organs oxygenated longer? How can we create chiral molecules with precise control?

The CCB winners of this year’s Star-Friedman Challenge for Promising Scientific Research are pursuing the answers to these questions. The CCB researchers selected for this year's awards were...

By Yahya Chaudhry, via Harvard Gazette

Throughout human history, most of our efforts to store information, from knots and oracle bones to bamboo markings and the written word, boil down to two techniques: using characters or shapes to represent information. Today, huge amounts of information are stored on silicon wafers with zeros and ones, but a new material at the border of quantum chemistry and quantum physics could enable vast...

Antiferromagnet unveils novel Nonlinear Hall Effect enabling wireless energy

In a groundbreaking scientific achievement, a team of Harvard scientists have harnessed the unique properties of antiferromagnetic materials and the quantum metric to unveil a novel nonlinear Hall effect. This breakthrough not only expands our understanding of fundamental physics but also paves the way for exciting advancements in electronics and quantum computing.

This discovery began by examining the...

On June 1st, CCB kicked off the second annual High School Lab Skills Summer Research Program with “Match Day” at the Harvard Ed Portal in Allston. The afternoon highlighted the work of the six Brighton-Allston High School students enrolled in the program and provided an opportunity for CCB program staff, graduate and postdoc mentors, Ed portal staff and Brighton-Allston high school science teachers to meet and celebrate the work of this program. The high school students were handed a letter which contained their highly anticipated summer lab placement assignments. Once the matches were...

Suyang Xu, assistant professor of chemistry and chemical biology, is tying quantum mechanical “knots” in topological materials, which may be the key to unlocking the potential of quantum technologies to store and process vast arrays of information and bring game-changing advances in a variety of fields.

... Read more about Unlocking potential of quantum technologies

Climate Change Solutions Fund awards recognize nine projects around the world... Read more about New ideas for global warming solutions win $1M in funding

Star-Friedman Challenge for Promising Scientific Research awards seven cutting-edge projects... Read more about Recognition for some risky research

For faculty pursuing innovative and high-impact research

... Read more about Three CCB faculty earn awards from the Dean’s Competitive Fund for Promising Scholarship