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Video of 2nd Origins Prize Lecture: John Grotzinger (CalTech) "Curiosity’s search for habitable environments at Gale Crater, Mars."

February 14, 2018

2nd Origins Prize Lecture: John Grotzinger (CalTech) "Curiosity’s search for habitable environments at Gale Crater, Mars."

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The Royal Society of Chemistry interviews Origins graduate student Zoe Todd surrounding her recently published article "Solvated-electron production using cyanocuprates is compatible with the UV-environment on a Hadean–Archaean Earth".

February 02, 2018

Article: "Photoredox sugar synthesis plausible on early Earth"

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Harvard Origins of Life Consortium students Investigate How Planetary Life Begins in Norway.

December 15, 2017

Full GSAS Bulletin Dec/Jan Issue

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Harvard Origins Faculty member Pete Girguis aims to create an autonomous ocean-floor observatory with the ABISS project.

December 15, 2017

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2017/11/harvard-scientist-hopes-…

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Origins faculty members Andy Knoll and Jack Szostak receive honorary doctorates

November 07, 2017

On Saturday, September 23, 1017, Professor Jack Szostak received a honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Medicine, Université de Sherbrooke, in Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada. The degree was presented to Professor Szostak by the Dean of the Medical School...

Harvard Origins of Life Initiative rings in 10 years with a trip to the stars.

April 06, 2017

http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2017/04/harvard-origins-of-life-i…

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Juan Perez-Mercader mentioned in Chemistry World: Tracing the amphilic worm. Behaviour of polymer amphiphiles could help us understand the origins of life.

February 22, 2017

https://www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/polymer-amphiphiles-could-help-r… http://www.nature.com/articles/srep41534

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Read the new Nature paper by former Origins Prize Postdoctoral Fellow Kun Wang and Harvard Professor Stein Jacobsen: "Potassium isotopic evidence for a high-energy giant impact origin of the Moon"

September 16, 2016

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nature19341.html

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Origins Faculty member Professor David Charbonneau awarded the 2016 Blavatnik National Award for Young Scientists

June 21, 2016

http://blavatnikawards.org/honorees/profile/david-charbonneau/

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AAS awards Harvard assistant professor and Origins faculty team member Karin Öberg the Pierce Prize.

January 15, 2016

http://aas.org/media/press-releases/aas-announces-2016-award-recipients

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Harvard professor of environmental science and Origins faculty team member Professor Robin Wordsworth discusses NASA's recent finding about liquid water on the planet Mars.

September 30, 2015

http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2015/09/a-watery-mars-a-changed-o…

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Breakthough Listen Project

July 20, 2015

Origins faculty members Avi Loeb and Dimitar Sasselov are involved in " Breakthrough Listen," a new project privately funded initiative to search for intelligent life in the universe.

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