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Imagine walking into the engineering labs at 60 Oxford St. and having a fly buzz around your head. After swatting it away, instead of a splat on the wall, you discover a tiny mechanical creation of Robert J. Wood, an assistant professor of electrical engineering. Two weeks ago, Wood was...
Two seemingly indestructible Martian rovers have also been busy. Since landing in early 2004, the golf-cart-size Spirit and Opportunity have toddled about on different parts of the planet, dipping into craters, drilling into rocks and sending back data about Mars' makeup and watery past. But the Martian elements...
More ships are on the way, with NASA planning to launch another, larger rover--the Mars Science Laboratory--in 2009 and another orbiter in 2013. The European Space Agency hopes to launch its own rover in 2013. A robotic mission to gather rocks and return them to Earth is a...
Like the world outside the theater, the modern audience for ballet has almost unanimously decided that ours is an era for change, that ballet should not be a museum of artifacts but rather a constantly evolving gallery of new acquisitions. This is largely why the young choreographer Christopher Wheeldon was...
Harvard’s Initiative in Innovative Computing and School of Engineering and Applied Sciences recently announced the launch of a joint colloquium series that will bring together those interested in computing and the sciences. Each semester, the colloquium will feature two speakers who will discuss issues related to both...