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Work & Economy
Lawrence Katz named Citation Laureate
Economist’s findings have garnered nearly 26,000 citations across 72 publications
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Health
Regulating vaping with a deadlier habit in mind
Policies aimed at protecting youth walk fine line or risk driving users to cigarettes, say panelists
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Science & Tech
Why is your head not exploding? Steven Pinker can explain.
Cognitive psychologist reveals uncommon depths of common knowledge in new book
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Nation & World
What’s driving decline in U.S. literacy rates?
In podcast, experts discuss why learning to love to read again may be key to reversing trend
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Nation & World
Sustainability remains hot topic in corporate America
Low-carbon energy firm CEO says executives dialed in on climate change, pondering adjustments despite shifts in Washington
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Health
How close are we to having chatbots officially offer counseling?
New research looks at how 3 large language models handle queries of varying riskiness on suicide amid rising mental health crisis, shortage of care
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Arts & Culture
How fashion police have been walking beat for centuries
Houghton Library exhibit highlights the policing of women’s fashion since the 17th century.
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Science & Tech
When your research donor is 6
First-grader raises $1,000 for axolotl research, meets her scientist hero — and maybe gets taste of what she wants to do when she grows up
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Science & Tech
‘It feels very personal’
Jessica Whited overcame many obstacles to become a scientist, and her work was rooted in family’s blue-collar history. Then came funding cuts.
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Nation & World
Turns out two-parent households are no fix for racial inequality
New data-based study debunks long-held notion, finds wide opportunity gaps remain
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Science & Tech
Methane tracking satellite lost in space — what now?
Enough data collected already to map potent greenhouse gas emissions, says lead researcher
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Nation & World
Did U.S.-Russia talks on Ukraine make things worse?
Incursions, increase in aggression really just part of ongoing push by Putin to destabilize ties of allies, scholars and analysts say
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Health
Making real gains in war on Alzheimer’s
Researchers hope new technologies, approaches usher in era of effective treatment for incurable disease amid urgency of ‘silver tsunami’
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Science & Tech
How AI could radically change schools by 2050
In Ed School panel, Howard Gardner says tech could make ‘most cognitive aspects of mind’ optional for humans
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Campus & Community
Katie Patton scores historic first in Harvard football program
New director of operations is first woman in the role at Harvard, youngest woman in Division I
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Science & Tech
Claims of pure bloodlines? Ancestral homelands? DNA science says no.
Geneticist explains recent analyses made possible by tech advances show human history to be one of mixing, movement, displacement
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Science & Tech
His lab’s ancient DNA studies are rewriting human history
Yet federal funding cuts have put next chapter of David Reich’s work in doubt
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Nation & World
Jill Lepore on ‘We the People’
Jill Lepore describes a document built for tinkering in new history of the Constitution
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Science & Tech
How an astronaut calculates risk
With blast-off date approaching, Anil Menon prepares for the ‘impossible’
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Nation & World
How Supreme Court may get chance to re-examine landmark climate ruling
Legal scholars say justices could reverse ruling allowing EPA to regulate greenhouse gas emissions on technical grounds amid shift in court makeup
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Work & Economy
AI took your job — can retraining help?
Study finds benefits to displaced workers even in occupations at risk of automation
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Campus & Community
Deming brings a researcher’s perspective to leadership role
New dean of Harvard College discusses academics, AI, and campus life
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Health
Only 1 in 4 addicted to opioids takes life-saving meds. Why?
Study examining potential solution to treatment gap — especially in rural areas — gets federal funding cut
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Work & Economy
Economy is doing OK. So why are Americans so pessimistic about their prospects?
Scholars say government statistics can miss lived experience, politics taking larger role in shaping perceptions
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Nation & World
Data bolsters theory about plunging Catholic Mass attendance
Surveys tracking religious engagement globally show decline starts after church’s 1960s reforms
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Science & Tech
Our viral vocabulary
Adam Aleksic — aka the ‘Etymology Nerd’ — discusses how social media algorithms are transforming language
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Arts & Culture
Her Cambridge iconography made her a local icon
Before New Yorker covers, Barbara Westman created colorful visions of campus as Gazette’s first staff artist
