US Vice-President Joe Biden has accused America’s key allies in the Middle East of allowing the rise of the Islamic State (IS), saying they supported extremists with money and weapons in their eagerness to oust the Assad regime in Syria. America’s “biggest problem” in Syria is its regional allies, Biden told students at the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum at the Institute of Politics at Harvard... 

White House counterterrorism and Homeland Security adviser Lisa Monaco gave a speech this week in which she urged parents to watch their children for signs of “confrontational” behavior which could be an indication of them becoming terrorists. During the speech at at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government on Tuesday night, Monaco, who replaced John Brennan last year in overseeing... 

Harvard ‘brainiacs’ are at it again. Inspired by termites, they have realized their dream of cheap, expendable, self-organizing robots – a construction crew building complex structures at a quick pace, and completely independent of leadership. The possibilities are vast. The machines can be made to build any three-dimensional structure on their own and with minimal instruction. But what is... 

A revolutionary, free and crowd-funded HIV vaccine is in the works. Its creators use a machine learning algorithm to examine the cells of rare individuals naturally immune to the virus to then re-engineer the same biological process in others. The Immunity Project, as the team is called, is completely crowd-funded. Not only does it promise an effective vaccine this time around, it uses a revolutionary... 

Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko has won the so-called Ig Nobel Peace Prize – a parody of the Nobel Prize, which is awarded for “achievements that make one laugh, but then think.” Experts reminded the Belarus president of his ban on applause imposed in 2011. The award winners were announced at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Anti-Nobel, or Ig Nobel Prize, appeared... 

Researchers from Harvard University and the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have turned inanimate silicone and living cardiac muscle cells into a freely swimming jellyfish. Published in Nature Biotechnology on July 22, the method used for producing the tissue-engineered jellyfish has been dubbed ‘Medusoid.’ Jellyfish propel themselves by pumping, US researchers therefore focused on... 

Shakira, Colombian born Grammy-winning singer and songwriter, holds the plaque naming her the Harvard Foundation Artist of the Year, which was presented to her by Harvard Foundation Director Allen Counter, left, at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass. Colombian singer Shakira was honored Saturday by Harvard University for her artistic and humanitarian work. She later said some U.S. states’... 

The Ivy League insitution will invite visiting scholars to teach on sexuality and issues related to sexual minorities for one term each. While other universities have course offerings and degree programs in sexuality studies, Harvard’s healthy endowment allows the professorship on the subject to be funded in perpetuity, the first university in the country to do so. The Harvard Gay & Lesbian...