Claudine Gay, a widely admired higher education leader and distinguished scholar of democracy and political participation, will become the 30th president of Harvard University on July 1. Since 2018, Gay has served as the Edgerley Family Dean of Harvard's Faculty of Arts and Scien … | Continue reading
For the first time, astronomers have observed a black hole burping up stellar remains years after it shredded and consumed the star. | Continue reading
A new Harvard study suggests that although the congenitally blind experience abstract visual phenomena such as rainbows and color differently, they still share with the sighted a common understanding of them. | Continue reading
New genetic research shows untold migration to remote Pacific islands was generally matrilocal. | Continue reading
Harvard Law faculty address the legal questions that almost certainly will be up for debate in a post-Dobbs world. | Continue reading
A new paper explores why neuron-like implants could offer a better way to treat brain disorders, control prosthetics, or even enhance cognitive abilities. | Continue reading
Pockets of worry and anger, says ex-Moscow Times journalist, but anti-West sentiment won’t yield easily to Ukraine reality. | Continue reading
A new study finds vitamin D supplements with or without omega-3s decreased the risk of autoimmune diseases by 22 percent compared to placebo. | Continue reading
Professor Joshua Greene talks about his new book, “Moral Tribes: Emotion, Reason, and the Gap Between Us and Them.” What makes an issue like abortion or Israeli-Palestinian relations seem insurmountable, he said, can be chalked up, in part, to brain wiring. | Continue reading
The myth of meritocracy is not merely self-deluding, Michael Sandel argues in his new book, but it also fuels our divisiveness. | Continue reading
Author and New York Times columnist Ross Douthat ’02 talks about his new book, “The Deep Places: A Memoir of Illness and Discovery.” | Continue reading
By studying how cells from healthy normal weight and overweight participants broke down carbohydrates in real time, researchers have found clues about what triggers metabolic distress. | Continue reading
Rationality can be fixed, Steven Pinker argues, and if we don’t our democracy and environment may be at stake. | Continue reading
A Harvard-led team has created a 256-qubit programmable quantum simulator that represents the cutting edge in the world-wide quantum race. | Continue reading
Harvard, MIT, and edX announced a joint effort with education technology company 2U to extend online learning’s reach and impact across the world. | Continue reading
For nearly 80 years, the Harvard Study of Adult Development has been producing data and lessons on how to live longer, happier, and healthier lives. | Continue reading
Indian economist and philosopher, Amartya Sen, the 1998 Nobel laureate in economics, talks about his life as the son of distinguished Hindu academics and how the inequities all around him in colonial India of the 1930s would shape his intellectual destiny. | Continue reading
Scientists at Harvard Medical School and Technion-Israel Institute of Technology have built a giant petri dish to visually demonstrate how bacteria move as they become immune to drugs. | Continue reading
Jim Waldo assesses how the internet fared during the pandemic and how well it stood up to huge shifts of work, education, and commerce online. | Continue reading
Harvard researchers have designed a stable, lithium-metal, solid-state battery that is far more efficient than lithium-ion batteries. | Continue reading
Researchers at Harvard Medical School and affiliated institutions have shown that a personalized cancer vaccine that is specific to an individual’s tumor has lasting effects, detecting vaccine-related immune system changes years after the vaccine was given. | Continue reading
Can the current crop of vaccines get us to herd immunity even if variants become widespread? A Harvard immunologist says yes. | Continue reading
The new three-layer system opens the door for high-temperature superconductors. | Continue reading
An excerpt from “Resetting the Table: Straight Talk about the Food We Grow and Eat” by Robert Paarlberg, associate in the Sustainability Science Program at the Harvard Kennedy School and at Weatherhead Center for International Affairs. | Continue reading
Acupuncture activates inflammation-regulating pathways, tames cytokine storm in mice. | Continue reading
Several hundred children worldwide live with progeria, a deadly premature aging disease. | Continue reading
Anthony Fauci predicted herd immunity by next fall and “normality” by 2021’s end, as long as enough people get vaccinated to bring the pandemic to an end. | Continue reading
A report found that 90 percent of companies surveyed see a future in shifting their talent model to a blend of full-time and freelance employees. | Continue reading
Harvard researchers uncover novel family of sensors in octopuses. | Continue reading
A new study shows that people who survive serious COVID-19 infections have long-lasting immune responses against the virus. | Continue reading
Researchers have discovered a key control mechanism that cells use to self-organize in early embryonic development. | Continue reading
Harvard professor discusses how far right Trump’s nominee could move the Supreme Court. | Continue reading
Harvard partners with MIT, Northeastern, and Tufts to launch NSF artificial intelligence institute. | Continue reading
A new study has found that children infected with the virus that causes COVID-19 were shown to have a significantly higher level of virus in their airways than hospitalized adults in ICUs for COVID-19 treatment. | Continue reading
The rate at which carbon is captured from the atmosphere at Harvard Forest nearly doubled between 1992 and 2015, a 25-year study reveals. | Continue reading
Harvard ornithologist Scott V. Edwards bicycles across the nation, raising awareness of Black Birders Week and Black Lives Matter. | Continue reading
Richard Weissbourd of the Graduate School of Education discusses what college admissions deans expect from applicants during the pandemic, and opportunities to reform the process. | Continue reading
An excerpt from the new book “Demagogue: The Life and Long Shadow of Senator Joe McCarthy” by Larry Tye. | Continue reading
Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences decides it will bring up to 40 percent of undergraduates, including all first-year students, to campus for the fall semester. | Continue reading
African grey parrot Griffin shows off his brain power, making students doubt their own. | Continue reading
Harvard researchers, drawing on insights from tuberculosis research, say air conditioners may be a factor in COVID-19’s spread down South, and relatively inexpensive germicidal ultraviolet lights a weapon. | Continue reading
Precise control over neuron growth paves the way for repairing injuries, including those to the spinal cord, and improving brain models. | Continue reading
Francesca Gino at Harvard Business School discusses how toxic cultures can flourish within police departments and other organizations. | Continue reading
So little is known about black holes and the image hints at a path to a higher-resolution image and more and better data. | Continue reading
New research from Harvard economists finds partisan politics isn’t just shaping policy opinions, it’s distorting our understanding of reality. | Continue reading
Harvard researcher Daniel Gilbert’s "prevalence-induced concept change" speaks to humankind’s conflicted relationship with progress. | Continue reading
The new art exhibition "Windows of Harvard" can be seen from the streets and sidewalks, or viewed online. | Continue reading
In a study involving thousands of participants, a new blood test detected more than 50 types of cancer as well as their location within the body with a high degree of accuracy. | Continue reading