Archiv: Harvard University


13.11.2025 - 18:46 [ Harvard University ]

More than a planetary fender-bender: New study finds Earth collided with dense interstellar cloud, possibly affecting life on planet

(June 10, 2024)

Evidence of a long-ago collision involving the Earth was there in the form of specific radioactive isotopes deposited across the Earth and Moon. There were, however, skeptics.

But now researchers have tracked the sun’s path through the Milky Way back to a crash 2 to 3 million years ago with a dense interstellar cloud. The event was so violent it appears to have collapsed the sun’s protective bubble around the solar system and possibly even affected life on Earth.

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“We don’t often discuss the impact of astrophysics on Earth because the astronomical timescales are very long, and the human species emerged on Earth just a few million years ago,” Loeb said. “But a few million years ago there was the potential for us to be passing through a very dense cloud. We didn’t work out the biological implications, but it’s clear that if you shrink the heliosphere to within the orbit of the Earth around the sun, we are not protected anymore. It could have significant implications for life on Earth.”

13.11.2025 - 17:36 [ Harvard University ]

Detailed understanding of reduced geoeffectiveness of solar cycle 24 in association with geomagnetic storms

(May 2025)

Solar Cycle 24, the weakest in over a century, exhibited significant deviations from previous cycles, beginning with a prolonged minimum, weak polar fields, and asynchronous polar field reversal, leading to hemispheric asymmetry. Sunspot activity declined by approximately 30% compared to Cycle 23, while the overall occurrence rate of coronal mass ejections (CMEs) decreased, although some studies suggest that the rate of halo CMEs relative to total CMEs may have remained relatively stable. This study investigates the impact of weaker solar activity on geomagnetic storm dynamics by analyzing CME properties, solar wind conditions, and their influence on magnetospheric energy transfer. Key findings indicate that a lower heliospheric pressure in Cycle 24 caused CMEs to expand more than in Cycle 23, altering energy transfer to Earth‘s magnetosphere.

29.05.2025 - 20:04 [ USA Today ]

Trump temporarily backs down on Harvard student ban as judge sides with college

A Boston federal judge said at a hearing May 29 that she planned to issue a preliminary injunction that blocks the Department of Homeland Security from revoking Harvard‘s ability to enroll foreign exchange students.

The comments from U.S. District Judge Allison Burroughs came as the Trump administration attempted to walk back its May 22 directive that immediately revoked Harvard‘s participation in a federal exchange student program.

24.04.2025 - 22:36 [ Avatar Donald J. Trump / Social Truth ]

Harvard is an Anti-Semitic, Far Left Institution, as are numerous others, with students being accepted from all over the World that want to rip our Country apart.

The place is a Liberal mess, allowing a certain group of crazed lunatics to enter and exit the classroom and spew fake ANGER AND HATE. It is truly horrific! Now, since our filings began, they act like they are all “American Apple Pie.” Harvard is a threat to Democracy, with a lawyer, who represents me, who should therefore be forced to resign, immediately, or be fired. He’s not that good, anyway, and I hope that my very big and beautiful company, now run by my sons, gets rid of him ASAP!

24.04.2025 - 22:33 [ New York Times ]

Trump Directs Sons to Fire Trump Org. Lawyer Because of Harvard Ties

In a statement, one of the sons, Eric Trump, confirmed that the Trump Organization intended to cut ties to Mr. Burck over his decision to represent Harvard.

“I view it as a conflict, and I will be moving in a different direction,” he said.

Mr. Burck declined to comment.

24.04.2025 - 22:29 [ Harvard University ]

Harvard files lawsuit against Trump administration

(April 21, 2025)

Harvard filed a lawsuit Monday against the Trump administration, arguing its freeze on research funding is unconstitutional and “flatly unlawful” and calling on the court to restore more than $2.2 billion in research dollars.

The filing, in U.S. District Court in Boston, requests that the court vacate and set aside the funding freeze to allow previously approved funding to flow and halt administration efforts to freeze current or deny future funding without engaging in procedures contained in federal law.

15.04.2025 - 06:57 [ Harvard.edu ]

Dear Messrs. Gruenbaum, Keveney, and Wheeler:

It is unfortunate, then, that your letter disregards Harvard’s efforts and instead presents demands that, in contravention of the First Amendment, invade university freedoms long recognized by the Supreme Court.
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The university will not surrender its independence or relinquish its constitutional rights. Neither Harvard nor any other private university can allow itself to be taken over by the federal government.

15.04.2025 - 06:51 [ Harvard.edu ]

Harvard won’t comply with demands from Trump administration

Harvard on Monday rejected demands from the Trump administration that threaten $9 billion in research funding, countering that the changes pushed by the government exceed its lawful authority and infringe on both the University’s independence and its constitutional rights.

“The University will not surrender its independence or relinquish its constitutional rights,” Harvard President Alan Garber wrote in a message to the community. He added: “No government — regardless of which party is in power — should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and which areas of study and inquiry they can pursue.”

15.04.2025 - 06:17 [ CNN ]

With billions at risk, Harvard rejects Trump administration’s request for policy changes

The Trump administration has threatened numerous colleges across the U.S. with funding cuts if changes in school policy weren’t made, and Harvard’s move appears to mark the first time an elite university has rebuked the White House over those demands.

Among the mandates in the administration’s letter are the elimination of Harvard’s diversity, equity and inclusion programs, banning masks at campus protests, merit-based hiring and admissions reforms and reducing the power held by faculty and administrators “more committed to activism than scholarship.”

15.04.2025 - 06:15 [ New York Times ]

Harvard Says It Will Not Comply With Trump Administration’s Demands

Other universities have pushed back against the administration’s interference in higher education. But Harvard’s response, which called the Trump administration’s demands illegal, marked a major shift in tone for the nation’s most influential school, which has been criticized in recent weeks for capitulating to Trump administration pressure.

25.04.2024 - 07:02 [ wgbh.org ]

Students set up Harvard Yard encampment in Gaza protest

Students at Harvard set up an encampment in protest of the war in Gaza, with about 10 tents on Harvard Yard by mid-afternoon.

The sit-in follows similar actions on campuses across the country, including local actions at MIT, Tufts and Emerson.

25.11.2021 - 19:07 [ Prof. Dr. Ulrich Kutschera / Reitschuster.de ]

Harvard-Studie beweist: Weltweite Impfungen hemmen das Virus nicht

Am 30. September 2021 ist die Online-first-Fassung einer Harvard-Studie erschienen, die dem ARD-Kommentar jede Glaubwürdigkeit nimmt. Unter dem Titel „Increases in COVID-19 are unrelated to levels of vaccination across 68 countries and 2947 counties in the United States“ (Zunahmen der COVID19-Fälle erfolgen unabhängig von der Impfquote in 68 Ländern und 2947 Bezirken in den USA) stellen zwei Top-Wissenschaftler ihre Ergebnisse vor (siehe S.V. Subramanian & A. Kumar, Eur. J. Epidemiol. 2021, in press; das Manuskript wurde nach ordentlichem peer-review als kurze Originalarbeit zum Druck akzeptiert). Der Erstautor, Dr. S. (Subu) V. Subramanian ist „Professor of Population Health and Geography” (Bevölkerungsgesundheit und Geographie) an der renommierten Harvard University (Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA). Er zählt weltweit zu den Top-Wissenschaftlern seiner Fachdisziplin.

25.11.2021 - 18:55 [ NIH.gov ]

Increases in COVID-19 are unrelated to levels of vaccination across 68 countries and 2947 counties in the United States

(2021 Sep 30)

At the country-level, there appears to be no discernable relationship between percentage of population fully vaccinated and new COVID-19 cases in the last 7 days (Fig. 1). In fact, the trend line suggests a marginally positive association such that countries with higher percentage of population fully vaccinated have higher COVID-19 cases per 1 million people. Notably, Israel with over 60% of their population fully vaccinated had the highest COVID-19 cases per 1 million people in the last 7 days.

22.09.2021 - 19:40 [ ORF ]

Riesiger Hohlraum im All entdeckt

Bei der Erstellung dreidimensionaler Karten in der Milchstraße haben Astrophysiker und Astrophysikerinnen einen riesigen Hohlraum entdeckt. Das kugelförmige Gebilde hat einen Durchmesser von rund 500 Lichtjahren.

10.05.2020 - 06:16 [ Nature.com ]

Estimating clinical severity of COVID-19 from the transmission dynamics in Wuhan, China

(19.03.2020)

As of 29 February 2020 there were 79,394 confirmed cases and 2,838 deaths from COVID-19 in mainland China. Of these, 48,557 cases and 2,169 deaths occurred in the epicenter, Wuhan. A key public health priority during the emergence of a novel pathogen is estimating clinical severity, which requires properly adjusting for the case ascertainment rate and the delay between symptoms onset and death. Using public and published information, we estimate that the overall symptomatic case fatality risk (the probability of dying after developing symptoms) of COVID-19 in Wuhan was 1.4% (0.9–2.1%),

10.05.2020 - 06:10 [ WesternJournal.com ]

Harvard Study Finds COVID-19 Fatality Rate Far Lower Than World Health Org Suggests

(24.03.2020)

A glimmer of hope in the midst of a pandemic that has ground the world to a halt: A new study from Harvard University and University of Hong Kong finds that COVID-19 might have a lower fatality rate than originally suggested.

According to the study published in Nature Medicine last week, only 1.4 percent of people who contracted the novel coronavirus in the epicenter of the disease, Wuhan, died from it.

18.08.2019 - 11:25 [ NationalHeraldIndia.com ]

Harvard alum write to PM Modi, ask him to release Shah Faesal, other leaders

Members of student, faculty and alumni of the prestigious Harvard University have written a letter to the Government of India, asking it to reconsider the detention of Shah Faesal on Wednesday in Srinagar.

Shah Faesal was sent back from Delhi airport on Tuesday to Srinagar and he was later detained under the Public Safety Act.