2013

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Step by grueling step, Jack Szostak is pushing through the barriers that keep him from his goal: making living cells from scratch in the lab. Read the Science article.

Congratulations to Andy Knoll on his election as a Foreign Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences of India. Read more at the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences website.

Cambridge, MA - Kepler-78b is a planet that shouldn't exist. This scorching lava world circles its star every eight and a half hours at a distance of less than one million miles - one of the tightest known orbits. According to current theories of planet...

Origins Faculty member David Johnston awarded the Geological Society of America's 2013 Outstanding Contribution Award in the Geobiology and Geomicrobiology Division. Read more at the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences website.

Packing the Earth’s 4.6-billion-year history into a two-foot-by-three poster—roughly three-quarters of a billion years per square foot—is no easy task. Yet scientists from Harvard and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) in Chevy Chase, Maryland...

Are the inhabitants of Earth the only life forms in the universe, or could life exist elsewhere? As astronomers rapidly identify exoplanets—those beyond our solar system—the question has been transformed from a science-fiction trope to one discussed in...

Awarded the 2012 Dr. Paul Janssen Award for Biomedical Research for his co-discovery with Dr. Victor Ambros of microRNAs as central regulators of gene expression and development See the Winners

Named by the Sloan Foundation as a recipient of a 2013 Sloan Research Fellowship, recognizing “early-career scientists and scholars who represent the very best that science has to offer.” Read more at the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences web...

Received the AAS’s 2013 Chambliss Astronomical Writing Award for his book, “How Did the First Stars and Galaxies Form? Read more at the Department of Astronomy web site.