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Science & Tech
Laying geological groundwork for life on Earth
Scientists detect fast-moving plate tectonics and flipped magnetic poles on early Earth.
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Science & Tech
Aramont Fellowships spotlight and support pathbreaking initiatives
Aramont Fellows’ research seeks solutions to Chagas disease transmission, preterm births, and head and neck cancers.
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Work & Economy
We’re living longer so that just means we work longer, right?
The problem with working longer in life as a solution to affording retirement for a population living longer is that many, if not most, already don’t work until standard retirement age, a new book shows.
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Science & Tech
Might be a balmy paradise. Might be a face-melting wasteland.
Harvard and MIT researchers warn that opacity models need to be improved to accurately interpret data from the James Webb Space Telescope.
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Nation & World
Schlesinger adjusts plans for Roe v. Wade commemoration to new reality
Schlesinger exhibit, conference to examine history, future now that Supreme Court has overturned landmark ruling.
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Nation & World
Struggling to ‘hold up the sky’
A Q&A with Luiz Eloy Terena, a Brazilian Indigenous lawyer and a land-rights activist who took part in a panel on the effects of illegal gold mining in the Amazon on public health, the environment, and Indigenous rights.
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Nation & World
No return to Camelot
The New Yorker’s Susan B. Glasser discusses her new book, “The Divider: Trump in the White House 2017-2021.”
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Health
Siddhartha Mukherjee on Aristotle, COVID, and the ‘new human’
Pulitzer Prize-winning physician-author Siddhartha Mukherjee returns with “The Song of the Cell.”
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Campus & Community
Hansjörg Wyss gives 4th transformational gift to support Wyss Institute
Hansjörg Wyss’ fourth gift to the Wyss Institute, $350 million, aims to transform health care and the environment by developing innovative technologies that emulate how nature builds and accelerating their translation into products.
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Nation & World
‘Right this ship of democracy’
At Harvard Kennedy School, Republican Congresswoman Liz Cheney spoke about Jan. 6 and urged students not to be bystanders of American democracy.
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Science & Tech
Most precise accounting yet of dark energy and dark matter
Analyzing more than two decades’ worth of supernova explosions, astrophysicists now have the most precise limits yet on the composition and evolution of the universe.
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Work & Economy
European Central Bank official sees long road ahead
Joachim Nagel, president of the Deutsche Bundesbank and member of the Governing Council of the European Central Bank, says more rate hikes are needed with inflation, energy costs surging amid Russian attack on Ukraine.
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Arts & Culture
The boy king’s throne
On the 100th anniversary of discovering Tutankhamun’s tomb, an Egyptian jewel comes to Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East.
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Science & Tech
Take lesson on barbecue, sprinkle liberally with thermodynamics
The best thing about learning science through barbecue is the flavor.
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Nation & World
YA star John Green seeks co-authors for climate story that averts disaster
New York Times bestselling author John Green was the first speaker of the 2022-2023 William Belden Noble Lecture series at the Memorial Church last Friday with a speech titled “How the World Ends.”
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Work & Economy
Is MLB ready to compete for next generation of fans?
Sports business expert discusses recent signs that pro baseball, which trails NFL, NBA, European soccer in money, popularity, may be rallying.
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Nation & World
60 years after Cuban Missile Crisis, nuclear threat feels chillingly immediate
Graham Allison looks at how Kennedy and Khrushchev stepped back from the point of no return and the challenges facing the West in preventing Putin from crossing it.
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Nation & World
Getting schools back to pre-COVID levels misses point, Cardona urges
U.S. education secretary says pandemic revealed pre-existing problems; now is the time to fix them.
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Science & Tech
Legendary Battle of Himera was triumph of Greek heroism, kind of
Genomic look at remains suggests victorious army got hand from substantial number of foreign mercenaries.
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Nation & World
How to protect democracy? Don’t give up on your neighbor.
Anand Giridharadas discusses his new book, “The Persuaders,” which highlights activists, political leaders, and ordinary people who haven’t given up on changing hearts and minds in the name of democracy.
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Nation & World
‘We can be better than this’
Freeman A. Hrabowski III praises, pushes Harvard in inaugural Martin Luther King Jr. Commemorative Lecture
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Campus & Community
University reports jump in revenues, small decline in endowment
Chief Financial Officer Tom Hollister and Executive Vice President Meredith Weenick discuss the University’s 2022 financial report and endowment returns.
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Campus & Community
Christopher David Killip, 74
At a meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on Oct. 11, 2022, the following tribute to the life and service of the late Christopher David Killip was spread upon the permanent records of the Faculty.
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Campus & Community
Gerald Enoch Sacks, 86
At a meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on Oct. 11, 2022, the following tribute to the life and service of the late Gerald Enoch Sacks was spread upon the permanent records of the Faculty.
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Campus & Community
Derek Albert Pearsall, 90
At a meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on Oct. 11, 2022, the following tribute to the life and service of the late Derek Albert Pearsall was spread upon the permanent records of the Faculty
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Campus & Community
Defining moment
We asked a group of first-years to tell us about themselves. Read their answers now, before they change.
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Campus & Community
Harvard mathematician Melanie Matchett Wood named MacArthur Fellow
The mathematician, known for her work in number theory, is one of 25 recipients of this year’s “genius” grants.
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Health
Is pandemic finally over? We asked the experts.
Harvard faculty discuss changes to views on school, work, winter’s likely surge, danger of “lethal inflexibility.”
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Science & Tech
Black hole burps up shredded star
For the first time, astronomers have observed a black hole burping up stellar remains years after it shredded and consumed the star.
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Arts & Culture
Laverne Cox, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar among Du Bois winners
Hutchins Center for African and African American Research returned after three years to award the W.E.B. Du Bois Medal to seven luminaries.
