Adult stem cells effect a cure
The permanent reversal of Type 1 diabetes in mice may end the wrenching debate over harvesting stem cells from the unborn to treat adult diseases.

Coldest place in the universe
The coldest place in the universe is not millions of miles away in a dark corner of outer space but in an exotic laboratory in Cambridge, Mass.

A presidential welcome
Lawrence H. Summers' first full day on the job spent the day settling into his Massachusetts Hall office the way most new employees would: setting up his phone and computer.

The science of teaching science
Last Thursday 14 Boston-area high school science teachers sat in the dark learning about mechanisms of cholesterol homeostasis. Later that day, they watched blood clot.

Unique film of Impressionist Renoir is discovered
For 44 years a small disc-shaped metal canister rested in a closet at the Comparative Literature Department's office in Boylston Hall. Nobody opened it. Nobody knew what it was.

Filmmaker Charlene Gilbert	Albert Szabo, artist	Wild things at HMNH