Research bits: Engineering Birdsongs
Researchers at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences have developed a simple device that mimics complex birdsongs.
Science@SEAS
Share:
Listens: 18
About
Get ready to breakdown the most egregious perpetrator of jargon warfare in all of science: the title of an academic paper. Each episode, we will sit down with a researcher from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and talk about a recent paper, with the one and only goal of understanding the title.
Slow climate mode reconciles historical and model-based estimates of climate sensitivity
SEAS researchers Peter Huybers and Cristian Proistosescu resolved a major conflict in estimates of how much the Earth will warm in response to a doubl...
The uncertain future of energy and climate
Michael McElroy, Gilbert Butler Professor of Environmental Studies at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, argues t...
Superconductivity vs. Spintronics
Applied physicist Hechen Ren joins the podcast to discuss the title of her paper,"Controlled Finite Momentum Pairing and Spatially Varying Order Param...
AI and Life in 2030
Artificial intelligence has already transformed our lives — from the autonomous cars on the roads to the robotic vacuums and smart thermostats in our ...
Multilayer Dielectric Elastomers for Fast, Programmable Actuation without Prestretch
Soft robots do a lot of things well but they’re not exactly known for their speed. The artificial muscles that move soft robots, called actuators, ten...
Evidence of a first-order phase transition to metallic hydrogen
Earlier this year, in an experiment about five-feet long, Harvard University researchers say they observed evidence of the abrupt transition of hydrog...
Functional network inference of the suprachiasmatic nucleus
Researchers from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, the University of California Santa Barbara, and Washington Un...
Metalenses at visible wavelengths: Diffraction-limited focusing and subwavelength resolution imaging
Curved lenses, like those in cameras or telescopes, are stacked in order to reduce distortions and resolve a clear image — that's why telephoto lenses...
Broadband and chiral binary dielectric meta-holograms
A very small hologram that can be used across all different wavelengths of light and can be programmed with different images based on the direction of...