The Cambridge Science Festival, the first of its kind in the United States, is a celebration showcasing the leading edge in science, technology, engineering, art, and math (STEAM). A multifaceted, multicultural event, the Festival makes science accessible, interactive and fun, highlighting the impact of STEAM in all our lives.
Here’s a collection of science projects and activities compiled by researchers from the Mass General Research Institute!
Did you know the Mass General Research Institute is the largest hospital-based research program in the country? In this video, you’ll learn about how the discoveries made by our researchers leads to better care for patients–here at the hospital, in the community and around the world.
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Learn how Mass General scientists and doctors work together to understand what makes people sick and how to help them get better.
Mass General’s Nitya Jain, PhD, conducted a series of experiments with her sons during the COVID-19 pandemic as a way to keep them engaged in science. Here are some of our favorites.
We host regular Science Slams to challenge our researchers to explain their science in three minutes or less using creativity, props and accessible language. Check out these recent slams!
The Center for Genomic Medicine (CGM) at Massachusetts General Hospital is dedicated to learning more about the genetic causes of disease and investigating new strategies for treatment and prevention.
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Richa Saxena, PhD, is the fearless leader and principle investigator of the Saxena lab. She is an Associate Professor of Anesthesia at Harvard Medical School and the Massachusetts General Hospital, and an Associate Member of the Broad Institute. Dr. Saxena’s research focuses on the impact of genetic variation in the biological clock on normal human physiology and metabolic disease. Learn more.
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For most of us, our schedules on weekdays look very different than the weekends – on weekends, we don’t have to go to school or work and can wake up without an alarm. Use this chart to track of your wake and bed times for the week to see how your sleep schedule changes!
Sleep keeps you healthy by letting your body rest and restore itself. Humans need around 8 hours of sleep every night to feel rested. Some animals need much less sleep, while others need much more. Learn about how long different animals sleep and color them in as you go!
Each one of us has a circadian rhythm, an internal “clock” that tells our body when to wake up, sleep, eat, and do other activities. Draw what activities you do at each time point and compare your results to others to see how your circadian rhythm differs from theirs!
Erin C. Dunn, ScD, MPH, is a social and psychiatric epidemiologist with expertise in genetics and epigenetics. The Dunn Lab seeks to understand the drivers of both mental illness and mental wellbeing across the lifespan. To date, much of their work has focused on the social and biological underpinnings of depression and anxiety among women, children, adolescents, and other vulnerable populations, including racial/ethnic minorities and people of low socioeconomic status.
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Erin Dunn ScD, MPH, and her research team in the Dunn Lab have been studying teeth. That’s right, teeth!
They have been fascinated by the clues teeth might provide about our early life experiences, which could ultimately be used to help identify new ways to prevent brain health problems, like depression, and promote brain health.
Dr. Dunn recently wrote a book about her research as the “Science Tooth Fairy,” recorded here as a read-a-loud!
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The Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging at Massachusetts General Hospital is one of the world’s premier research centers devoted to development and application of advanced biomedical imaging technologies. The Center is part of the Department of Radiology at Massachusetts General Hospital and affiliated with both Harvard Medical School and MIT. Our faculty are developing first-of-a-kind tools and applying them to solve challenges in neuroscience, oncology, cardiology and other clinical domains. Learn More.
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The future is now!
Martinos investigators are exploring the use of Microsoft HoloLens augmented reality technology with the Multi-Modality Visualization Tool (MMVT) they have developed.
This video was produced by the company AR51 (www.ar-51.com).
A big thanks to the Martinos Center’s Noam Peled, PhD.
This video is a real-time visualization of how the brain processes sounds. An inflated surface is used to expose information otherwise hidden by the naturally curved brain surface.
A big thank to Martinos Center postdoc Lorenz Esch, PhD.
Daphne Holt, MD, PhD, is the Director of the Resilience and Prevention Program and the Emotion and Social Neuroscience Laboratory within the Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging and Massachusetts General Hospital. She is also Co-Director of the Schizophrenia Clinical and Research Program at Mass General. Her lab studies emotion and social cognition, and the circuits of the brain involved in these processes, in healthy populations, individuals with psychosis and young people who may be at risk for developing a psychiatric disorder. Learn more.
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Has the COVID-19 pandemic changed your concept of personal space? In the following exercise, you can illustrate how close to like to be to different people, animals and things.
These avatars are used in a virtual reality simulation to study how personal space requirements have changed as a result of social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic. How close is too close for you?
Researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital have shown that individuals with a high degree of concern about the COVID-19 pandemic require more personal space than before. Will those changes stick after the pandemic is over?
During the depths of the COVID-19 pandemic, members of the Martinos Center community came together to share the gift of food. The Martinos Cookbook collects more than 70 of the recipes our investigators contributed, representing cuisines from around the world and covering every meal from throughout the day.
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