Health Your memory might benefit from a multivitamin Researcher details ‘remarkable’ findings, but with a caveat: Healthy lifestyle needs to come first
Health Birth control for cats? Single dose of hormone prevents ovulation and conception in felines for two years
World How schools teach children about their social station Sociologist Peter Francis Harvey embedded with students at private upper-middle-class, public working-class schools to explore implicit lessons
Nation COVID prison releases expose key driver of racial inequity As incarcerated population dropped overall, proportion of Black prisoners rose. Researchers point to unequal sentencing.
What makes for a moral foreign policy? Joseph Nye’s new book rates the efforts of presidents from FDR to Trump World| DateJanuary 21, 2020
Dozens of potential anti-cancer drugs netted in screening study News +| DateJanuary 21, 2020January 23, 2020
Sundance in the spotlight Actor Shirley Chen ’22 and director Lance Oppenheim ’19 have films premiering at prized Park City festival Arts| DateJanuary 21, 2020January 22, 2020
Finding new land-management lessons in old ways Historical view reshapes beliefs about what was done before and after European colonization Science| DateJanuary 20, 2020January 23, 2020
Flight from reason Thomas Patterson looks at the threat to Democracy in ‘How America Lost Its Mind’ World| DateJanuary 17, 2020June 3, 2022
Hitchcock’s silent side Harvard Film Archive to screen famous director’s silent-era films Arts| DateJanuary 17, 2020
Run, Jenny, run! A Harvard physics professor spends a sabbatical trying to break the record for fastest trans-America run World| DateJanuary 16, 2020January 23, 2020
Creating an environment that fosters innovation Chief of White House Science and Technology Office outlines progress of new policy panels World| DateJanuary 15, 2020
Super cool way to lose fat An injectable ice and saline slurry is shown to shrink fat deposits Health| DateJanuary 15, 2020January 23, 2020
Two-parent homes aren’t the key for all Why single-parent homes don’t affect Black children as negatively as white kids World| DateJanuary 15, 2020July 22, 2020
A solid vaccine for liquid tumors Biomaterial-based vaccine eliminates acute myeloid leukemia in mice Health| DateJanuary 14, 2020January 23, 2020
Should Medicare for All be Democrats’ top priority? Health-care overhaul debate tends to drown out other issues, exact a high political price, experts say World| DateJanuary 14, 2020January 14, 2020
Elizabeth Banks chosen as Hasty Pudding’s Woman of the Year ‘Hunger Games’ star, director, producer will be honored on Jan. 31 News| DateJanuary 14, 2020January 14, 2020
The next decade in science Wyss Institute researchers predict the biggest scientific advances of the 2020s Science| DateJanuary 13, 2020January 15, 2020
Study looks to genome editing to treat deadly degenerative disorder Harvard stem-cell research receives support from Sarepta Therapeutics for work on Duchenne muscular dystrophy Science| DateJanuary 9, 2020January 13, 2020
5 healthy habits to live by Those who practice healthy habits at age 50 live more years free of chronic diseases Health| DateJanuary 9, 2020January 23, 2020
DNA damage linked to plastic additive Worm study shows how a common chemical disrupts reproductive biology Health| DateJanuary 9, 2020February 3, 2023
Candidates for elected Harvard positions HAA nominating committee proposes new Overseers, elected directors News| DateJanuary 9, 2020January 8, 2020
Bacow urges high schoolers to pursue their educational dreams Harvard president also meets with participants in a college-readiness program started by alumni and with incoming and current students and grads News| DateJanuary 8, 2020January 9, 2020
Backbone of success In a first, researchers unveil stem cell models of human spine development Science| DateJanuary 8, 2020January 8, 2020