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Science & Tech
The why behind sex
Research details answer to a question that’s more complex than it seems
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Arts & Culture
Home is at the heart of Parton’s music, author says
Martha Ackmann tells Radcliffe audience the origin story of a songwriting legend
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Health
How to fix U.S. healthcare? ‘Radical action,’ says John McDonough.
Chan School expert links soaring costs to broader policy shifts in ‘America’s Wrong Turn’
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Arts & Culture
‘Pop Culture Jeopardy!’ champs knew they had film covered. TV? Not so much.
How former Harvard classmates binge-watched and buzzed their way to victory
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Health
Screening newborns for cancer risk
Blood samples routinely collected at birth could be used for genetic testing, potentially helping 1,000 children a year, study suggests
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Arts & Culture
Holding onto your humanity, against the herd
A.R.T. kicks off season with ‘Rhinoceros,’ starring Paul Giamatti, Tatiana Maslany, and John Turturro
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Campus & Community
One answer but with more than one way to get there
Jon Star, professor of teaching and learning, finds flexibility is key to helping students master math
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Science & Tech
Does vitriol make you feel special?
Beyond the algorithm, online negativity takes on a life of its own. Here’s why.
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Nation & World
What the framers were really thinking
Origin story of Declaration of Independence involves more than just embrace of Enlightenment ideas, scholars say
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Arts & Culture
America the beautiful
Celebrating nation’s natural wonders through art on 250th anniversary
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Health
For women in menopause, ‘not all healthy diets are equal’
Study comparing 11 eating patterns finds two clear paths to curbing weight gain
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Health
Total keto or veganism? Daniel Lieberman considers how humans evolved to eat.
Excerpt from evolutionary biologist’s new book ‘Fed Up’
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Nation & World
When AI goes rogue
Computer security expert says recent OpenAI, Anthropic breaches highlight need for regulations that balance safety, speed of development
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Arts & Culture
A bond stronger than blood
Tayari Jones digs into themes of latest novel, ‘Kin’: ‘We all need chosen family.’
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Nation & World
Why we need to break the grip of ‘oldigarchy’
Legal historian’s new book argues older Americans control power, wealth — and lack sense of urgency to fix nation’s most pressing problems
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Nation & World
How somewhat obscure English duke helped stoke American revolutionary ambitions
Danielle Allen’s new book unearths role of Charles Lennox in supporting ‘radical’ writers, thinkers including Thomas Paine, Benjamin Franklin
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Health
Part grueling race, part field study
From a bicycle seat, Harvard postdoc sees roadblocks facing rural medicine
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Health
AI use surging for mental health help among young people
Survey researcher says popularity may help fill gap between rising national problem, shortage of clinicians — provided counsel is sound
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Work & Economy
Gen Z puts high priority on jobs with meaning, purpose, but sees daunting hurdles
School of Ed report says they have concerns over low pay for caring professions, emotionally draining nature of work
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Work & Economy
Are we headed toward recession? Unpredictable.
Economic historian rebuts various beliefs about cause, concerns around downturns, explains why expansions are more important anyway
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Campus & Community
Don’t mince words, Radcliffe told scholars. It worked.
Participants in intellectual diversity initiative navigated deep disagreements on path to consensus
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Health
Coffee refill? Go for it, says American Heart Association, with note of caution.
Co-author of new guidance explains how many cups a day are safe — possibly even good for you — and why energy drinks are different
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Campus & Community
Henry Chu named curator of Nieman Foundation for Journalism
Prize-winning veteran foreign correspondent, editor aims to focus on challenges facing industry, including AI, press freedom, polarization
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Health
The best medicine may be free
Forest therapy guide explains what a daily dose of nature does for the body
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Nation & World
How AI may change public policy, how we lead
Kennedy School unveils 10-year strategic plan that features robust new focus on promise, perils of technology
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Nation & World
You’re getting a divorce. What happens to the frozen embryo?
Panelists dig into fraught legal, ethical questions at heart of fertility cases
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Science & Tech
Do you have a guilty AI secret?
Media, legal experts discuss angst of individuals over appropriate use of powerful technology as institutions, culture scramble to set boundaries
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Health
Almost everyone she knew growing up were laborers. Now she researches inactivity.
Epidemiologist I-Min Lee has published hundreds of papers on exercise and heart health in her time with the Harvard Alumni Health Study and the Women’s Health Study
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Nation & World
Garber warns of disruptions to ‘unprecedented’ scientific progress
Policy changes for research funding, international students threaten U.S. momentum, he says
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Campus & Community
University opposes changes to federal-grant guidelines
Letter argues that overhaul would politicize funding process, hamper health and science advances, damage nation’s security, competitiveness
