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Science & Tech
Between Cuba and Harvard, an uncommon garden
Historian Leida Fernandez-Prieto came to Cambridge to research a Cuban botanical garden with Harvard roots.
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Nation & World
Religion as social unifier
There are plenty of things that make it possible for humans to live in large groups and pack into cities. New building techniques and materials, for instance, allow construction of high-rise buildings; plumbing delivers clean, fresh water and sewage systems that help to prevent diseases. One factor, however, is rarely included on the list: having…
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Nation & World
MOOCs ahead
MOOCs (massive open online courses) have sparked explosive growth in both education and opportunity. Consider edX. Since this joint Harvard and MIT online platform launched in 2012, it has attracted more than 27 million course enrollments representing more than 8 million learners, uniting students all over the world with teachers and course material through lectures,…
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Nation & World
In Turkey, a struggle for normalcy
I arrived in Istanbul on July 8, planning to conduct a month of historical research for my upcoming senior thesis. A week later, Turkey was thrown into chaos after the violent failure of an apparent coup attempt. Since then, this country has been struggling to find its way back to normalcy, and so have I.…
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Arts & Culture
A family of common zeal
Of the many items in a new Radcliffe exhibit devoted to a family of social reformers, one in particular points to the attitudes and assumptions they repeatedly overcame. It’s a brief, age-weathered letter from November 1869, in which Charles Darwin thanks the author and activist Antoinette Brown Blackwell for sending him a copy of her…
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Campus & Community
Sky is the limit
In an area where light pollution has all but hidden the stars, Harvard’s Clay and Loomis-Michael Telescopes offer staff, students, and affiliates a vision of the night sky unlike any in the city.
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Science & Tech
Just-so black holes
New findings advance insight on formation of supermassive black holes in the early epochs of the universe.
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Arts & Culture
Smirk central
The Harvard Lampoon’s creative irreverence on full display in exhibit marking its 140th anniversary
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Health
Similar designs, 100 million years apart
A study found that both Rusingoryx atopocranion, a relative of the wildebeest, and hadrosaur dinosaurs evolved large bony domes on their foreheads, which were likely used as resonating chambers to warn of predators and communicate with others.
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Science & Tech
Minding the details of mind wandering
A new study sheds light on important differences between intentional and unintentional mind wandering.
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Nation & World
Poll unveils millennial agenda for next president
Harvard’s Institute of Politics latest poll of Americans ages 18 to 29 year olds finds that economic concerns top the list.
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Nation & World
Tennessee tracking police deaths, killings
The Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health examines how the state of Tennessee is taking action to more accurately track police deaths and police killings — and explore how that could lead to changes in how police forces operate.
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Arts & Culture
Where women once ruled
Peruvian archaeologist Luis Castillo spoke at Harvard about how the discovery of several burial sites of female priestesses along the northern coast of Peru are changing notions about the roles of women in ancient civilizations.
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Health
The parrot knows shapes
Despite a visual system vastly different from that of humans, tests showed the bird could successfully identify both Kanizsa figures and occluded shapes. The findings suggest that birds may process visual information in a way that is similar to humans.
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Health
Auditory cortex nearly identical in hearing and deaf people
The neural architecture in the auditory cortex — the part of the brain that processes sound — of profoundly deaf and hearing people is virtually identical, a new study has found. The study could point the way toward potential new avenues for treating deafness.
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Science & Tech
A battery inspired by vitamins
Harvard researchers have developed a new class of battery electrolyte material based on vitamin B2 that could enable large-scale, inexpensive electricity storage for renewable power sources.
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Campus & Community
Professor honored for work on climate change consensus
Harvard Professor of the History of Science Naomi Oreskes will be awarded the sixth annual Stephen H. Schneider Award for Outstanding Climate Science Communication.
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Health
Research suggests new avenues for attacking ALS
Harvard researchers have found evidence that bone marrow transplantation may one day be beneficial to a subset of patients suffering from ALS.
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Health
Giving Huntington’s disease the one-two punch
The identification of a molecular compound that combats Huntington’s disease by means of two separate mechanisms may be the watershed moment in the battle against neurodegenerative diseases.
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Nation & World
Politics in a ‘post-truth’ age
Harvard analysts discuss the unusual dynamics and events of the 2016 presidential election, and what they mean for our political system going forward.
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Nation & World
Rethinking Olympic glory
A symposium called “Who Will Win in Rio?” discussed many of the barometers of success that define the Olympic Games.
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Science & Tech
The high price of workplace stress
Experts discuss findings from a new Harvard T.H. Chan School survey about how workers say their jobs affect their health, and what companies can and should be doing to help.
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Nation & World
Public programs are ‘good economic bets’
Harvard Business School labor economist Gareth Olds discusses new research into the surprising relationship between entrepreneurship and the social safety net.
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Science & Tech
Eternal light, up for grabs
Martin Elvis of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics warns that a loophole in the Outer Space Treaty leaves open the possibility of a race for resources on the moon.
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Campus & Community
Harvard College announces new dean of students
Katherine O’Dair has been appointed dean of students at Harvard College.
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Campus & Community
Food for thought
Harvard’s varied dining halls attract undergraduates because of their intriguing spaces and moods, as well as their meals.
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Campus & Community
Harvard remembers Howard Raiffa
The respected social scientist and educator enhanced peoples’ understanding and capacity to make the world a better place, says HKS Dean Elmendorf.
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Nation & World
Death in black and white
Harvard Law School’s Ronald Sullivan discusses the shocking eruption of deadly violence between police and African-Americans in Louisiana, Minnesota, and Dallas.
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Health
Clues to camouflage
Chromatic aberration may explain how cephalopods can demonstrate such remarkable camouflage abilities despite being able to see only in black and white.
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Arts & Culture
Unearthed bones bring Philistines to life
A Harvard-backed expedition working in Israel has carried out the first-ever excavation of a Philistine cemetery.
