July 20, 2006

Seen 8,000 trillion miles away A giant red star (right) blowing gas onto a white dwarf star caused an explosion so violent that it could be seen 8,000 trillion miles away on Earth without a telescope on Feb. 12, 2006. (David A.Hardy/www.astroart.org & PPARC) Full story

HARVARD GAZETTE ARCHIVES

Science Committee issues preliminary report
Calls for supporting a wide range of approaches to science education and research in Longwood, Allston, and Cambridge

Cosmic blast announces a future supernova
Big booms help measure universal expansion

Exercise boosts health of HIV-infected women
Dramatic physical, mental improvement seen

Muscle cells grown into working heart cells
Squeezing a heart back into rhythm

Researchers discover mechanism that regulates bone growth
Pathway promising for osteoporosis treatment, say Wein and Jones

The longer you live, the longer you can expect to live
Quiz measures death risk

Technology conference focuses on improving early science courses
Fanning flames of freshman enthusiasm

Beetles' past tells volumes about tropical evolution
Radiation happened in bursts, species accumulated over time

Tilting at ice ages
Earth's tilt brought on the ice, says climatologist Peter Huybers

Video: Astronaut Stephanie Wilson '88 aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery
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