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Earlier this week, the Harvard Medical School announced that they were to shut down their 50-year-old primate research center in Southborough, Massachusetts. By the looks of it, their decision was taken primarily because of financial consideration, spokespersons for the New England Primate Research Center told mem... |
25 April 2013
14:31 GMT |
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The email messages of Harvard University deans have been read without their consent, reports say.
16 resident deans are under fire for possibly leaking info to the press about a cheating scandal at the Ivy League school. Their accounts have been accessed because they have been directly involved with the case.
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11 March 2013
10:37 GMT |
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The hacker D35m0nd142 has defaced the Gordon McKay & Blue Hill libraries subdomain of Harvard University’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences website (library.seas.harvard.edu). He published the following message in the announcements section of the site: “HACKED by D35m0nd142. I’ve de... |
17 January 2013
04:21 GMT |
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Steven Sinofsky, the former Windows boss that was ousted from Microsoft in November, has created a new personal blog called “Learning by Shipping” to share “thoughts and perspectives on product development, management and the process of bringing new products to market.” Even though most peopl... |
4 January 2013
06:11 GMT |
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Former Windows boss Steven Sinofsky has announced on his Twitter profile that he would start teaching at Harvard Business School in Massachusetts in spring 2013.
“Excited to return to @HarvardHBS to teach again this spring! New perspectives, recharge, share experiences, write. #sabbatical,” he wrote on t... |
20 December 2012
04:22 GMT |
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Deciphering the code of life, the DNA, is something that geneticists have been trying to do for decades, but it so happens that certain specialists are looking to do different things with that compound. Harvard has struck again, or at least two of its specialists have. A geneticist and a bioengineer have successful... |
17 August 2012
11:23 GMT |
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An SQL Injection vulnerability on the site of Harvard University’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences allowed members of Team Dig7tal to gain access to the website’s databases.
From a database called mooneylab, the hackers leaked around 80 credential sets that include usernames, password hashes, ... |
13 April 2012
07:52 GMT |
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The hacker named D35m0nd142 started the new year with a couple of operations purposed to prove that even after multiple hacks, Universities such as Harvard and Oxford still fail to buff up their security.
Oxford University’s Begbroke Science Park website contained a vulnerability that allowed the hacker to acc... |
5 January 2012
08:33 GMT |
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Nature is a great source of inspiration for scientists worldwide. After inventing the tree-inspired solar arrays and the carbon-absorbing cement imitating coral reefs, experts though it is time to come up with a new sustainable material copying the resistance of insect cuticles to replace plastic in an efficient mann... |
17 December 2011
06:09 GMT |
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Harvard scientists just showed that they successfully created an utterly boneless robot, where boneless is an epithet that applies both literally and figuratively. Looking a lot like a starfish, or a four-legged, carapace-less, white slug (loosely at least), it is easy enough to guess what the white, wriggly thing c... |
29 November 2011
08:12 GMT |
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Scientists at the Harvard University and the MITRE Corporation have managed to built and demonstrate what appears to be the world's first programmable nanoprocessor which measures just 30 nanometres in diameter.
The tiny processor was constructed by assembling together nanocircuits made out of germanium-silic... |
10 February 2011
09:54 GMT |
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Psychologists at Harvard developed two powerful tests that can predict more accurately patients' risk of attempting suicide.Harvard Professor of Psychology Matthew K. Nock and his colleagues present the tests in two papers, published in the current Journal of Abnormal Psychology and in Psychological Science. The... |
28 July 2010
10:52 GMT |
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One of the most baffling questions related to how life evolved on the planet refers to how the first self-replicating chemicals managed to form more complex structures that also featured genetic material. These simple substances were a long way away from RNA and DNA, the nucleic acids that underlie life today, and th... |
23 April 2010
06:33 GMT |
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A new yet-unpublished scientific study, conducted by researcher Bruce Western, the director of the Multidisciplinary Program in Inequality and Social Policy at the Harvard University, shows that college education is still the key to wealth and prosperity in the United States, despite the fact that, over the years, th... |
22 January 2009
02:28 GMT |
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The modified Gulfstream V aircraft employed by Harvard University will fly all around the world, from the North to the South Pole, and will accurately record various carbon dioxide (CO2) readings along the way, in an attempt to create the most comprehensive picture of the circuit of carbon in nature to date. The thre... |
15 January 2009
04:59 GMT |
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The Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University, in the United States released four proposals for next week's international climate conference, scheduled to take place in Poznan, Poland. One of these suggestions said that developing countries, including China and India, should be al... |
25 November 2008
04:01 GMT |
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The web site of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University was attacked and went offline yesterday. The purpose of it all, the guy behind the attack says that he wanted to demonstrate the insecurity of the university's server and, I dare add, the recklessness of those in charge of it. You... |
19 February 2008
05:29 GMT |
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Microsoft Chairman and Co-Founder Bill Gates has been waiting for over 30 years, 32 years to be more specific, to finally get his degree from Harvard University. And, yesterday June 7, 2007, William H. Gates III (Bill Gates) was awarded a honorary degree at Commencement's Morning Exercises at Harvard. Gates is n... |
8 June 2007
09:49 GMT |
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Microsoft Chairman and Co-Founder Bill Gates will be on the Harvard campus today, June 7, 2007, to get the one missing piece of his success portfolio, a degree. Gates is scheduled to speak at the Universities 356th Commencement, after which he will be awarded an honorary degree. Throughout the 32 years that have pas... |
7 June 2007
05:54 GMT |
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Microsoft Chairman and Co-Founder Bill Gates may be on the top of the world, and certainly at the top of the world's 946 billionaires, with an estimated fortune of $56 billion but he has always been regarded as a Harvard drop-out. And while Gates has announced back in 2006 that he will transition out of his curr... |
24 March 2007
08:23 GMT |
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