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 ...

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 Scientists have built a school of robotic fish powered by human heart cells. The fish, which swim on their ...

Kit Parker, a Harvard p rofessor of bioengineering and applied physics, made the robo-stingray to learn more about heart disease. Scroll down to see how the stingray swims and what this means for ...

It was the aquarium that sent Kit Parker down an unexpected path with his heart research. He was there with his daughter watching jellyfish pulsing through the water. The jellyfish, he realized ...

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.

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.

Kit Parker is used to being an anomaly on Harvard University’s campus. The physicist — an Army Reserve colonel who served in Afghanistan — is a long-time critic of the school’s hiring practices and ...