Tag: Daniel Nocera

  • Campus & Community

    Risk rewarded

    Harvard researchers will share nearly $1 million in funding to pursue high-risk, high-reward projects from using zircons to explore the earliest life on Earth to creating next-generation painkillers.

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  • Science & Tech

    A next step in renewable Bionic Leaf fuel production

    New system uses the sun and impure water to make renewable energy.

    Daniel G. Nocera.
  • Science & Tech

    Ending ‘dead zones’

    Harvard scientists are teaming up with sustainability officers and landscaping experts to test a new fertilizer that won’t wash into water supplies.

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  • Science & Tech

    Yeasts get a boost from solar power

    Harvard researchers have started to combine bacteria with semiconductor technology that, similar to solar panels on a roof, harvests energy from light and, when coupled to the microbes’ surface, boosts their biosynthetic potential.

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  • Science & Tech

    Expanding the reach of the bionic leaf

    With eye on population growth, postdoc Kelsey Sakimoto teamed up with “bionic leaf” developers on a project to aid agriculture in developing world.

  • Science & Tech

    Global concerns on climate change

    Harvard experts gather to discuss climate change in all its complexity, and share some surprising views.

  • Science & Tech

    Bionic leaf turns sunlight into liquid fuel

    A cross-disciplinary team at Harvard has created a system that uses solar energy to split water molecules and hydrogen-eating bacteria to produce liquid fuels. 

  • Science & Tech

    A leap for ‘artificial leaf’

    Using an electro-chemical process to etch materials, Harvard scientists have developed a system of patterning that works in just minutes, as opposed to the weeks needed for other techniques. Researchers can build photonic structures that control the light hitting the device and greatly increase its efficiency.

  • Science & Tech

    Support for seven from president’s climate fund

    Seven research projects aimed at confronting the challenge of climate change using the levers of law, policy, and economics, as well as public health and science, have been awarded grants in the inaugural year of President Drew Faust’s Climate Change Solutions Fund.

  • Campus & Community

    Energy research wins grant

    Harvard chemist Cynthia Friend has been awarded a major center grant from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Basic Energy Sciences’ Energy Frontier Research Centers program, which is designed “to accelerate the scientific breakthroughs needed to build the 21st-century energy economy.”

  • Science & Tech

    Emergency planning

    Six of Harvard’s deep thinkers on climate change and sustainability took the stage Sept. 18 in the second annual Harvard Thinks Green.

  • Science & Tech

    The greenest lab, up and running

    The renovation of Harvard’s Sherman Fairchild Building may have seemed inconsequential to the casual observer because the exterior barely changed. However, as a result of a two-year project to accommodate the Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology Department (SCRB), the interior has been transformed into one of the University’s greenest and most efficient laboratory spaces.