Featured series 
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The healing power of gene therapy
How researchers are seeing their work changing lives — from restoring children’s hearing to saving a baby born with a fatal disease
Podcast
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‘Lately, my algorithm is trash’
Are we shaping our feeds or are they shaping us?
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Is it time to start cutting red tape on government programs?
Journalist’s new book argues ‘administrative burden’ unfairly hits nation’s most vulnerable hardest, suggests solutions
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One effort to safeguard humanity: AI ‘constitutions’
Berkman Klein Center heard calls to keep models ‘honest, helpful, harmless.’ It’s a work in progress.
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Curios and curiouser
With exhibits including a dodo, fish mummified in pearl, and a ‘King Kong’-connected Komodo, ‘discovering the stories is one of the best jobs’
Gallery
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Linda Bilmes is doing the math
Kennedy School budget analyst has made it her life’s mission to elucidate the heavy toll of war: ‘If we don’t account for something, we don’t value it.’
Part of the Profiles of Progress series 
Data Visualization
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Why John Coltrane still matters
Jazz experts, scholars detail how iconic saxophonist, who would have turned 100 this year, reshaped most American musical genre
Audio
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What it’s really like to be young
Harvard faculty recommend books that capture youth in all its joy and agony
