The stakes for Harvard will be in focus on Monday, when a federal judge in Boston will hear arguments on whether the Trump ...

Where science meets war: Kit Parker's lab 05:34. This week on 60 Minutes, Lesley Stahl and producer Andrew Metz reported on how the U.S. military's counterinsurgency tactics are being adapted by ...

Michael Rosnach, Keel Yong Lee, Sung-Jin Park, Kevin Kit Parker Scientists have built a school of robotic fish powered by human heart cells. The fish, which swim on their ...

Kit Parker is the Tarr Family Professor of Bioengineering and Applied Physics, head of the Disease Biophysics Group, and a member of the Wyss Institute for Biologically-Inspired Engineering at Harvard ...

The last time we checked in with engineering professor Kit Parker, his students had finished building a brisket-smoking robot. It's easy to see why they did that: Brisket is tasty, brisket is hard ...

Michael Rosnach, Keel Yong Lee, Sung-Jin Park, Kevin Kit Parker . Armed with a better sense of the electro-mechanical signaling and physical movement of a beating heart, ...

Parker realized that this sort of split-second adjustment is something the heart does all the time as it senses changes in blood flow or pressure. "The idea just hit me like a thunderbolt," he says.

Parker's robotic stingray is tiny—a bit more than half an inch long—and weighs only 10 grams. But it glides through liquid with the very same undulating motion used by fish like real stingrays ...

There’s more to this project than just creating a life-like fish. Parker’s primary interest is in understanding the heart and how various parts of the anatomy can help with blood flow.

Three months after university President Alan Garber struck a defiant tone by vowing not to “surrender its independence or its constitutional rights,” an increasingly vocal group of professors across ...