Featured series 
Format: Data Visualization
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Health
Concerns raised over older heavy drinkers
Medical experts note elevated health risks, as study finds post-pandemic declines among younger adults
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Health
Heart attack, stroke — and hip fractures
Endocrinologist discusses life-or-death stakes of weak bones and how to protect against devastating falls
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Nation & World
Linda Bilmes is doing the math
Kennedy School budget analyst has made it her life’s mission to elucidate the heavy toll of war: ‘If we don’t account for something, we don’t value it.’
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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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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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Nation & World
A century of the SAT
How test of college readiness has changed with trends in education policy
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Nation & World
Hot off the presses: The Declaration of Independence
A flawed first copy — dashed off in all-nighter — endures as template for democracy in action
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Nation & World
Who joined the Nazi Party
‘Ordinary men’ were at the heart of genocidal movement as it grew, research says
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Nation & World
Call for ‘historical truth’ in our narrative of Nazi defeat
Jochen Hellbeck wants the West to acknowledge the Soviet role in stopping Hitler
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Nation & World
How to help lift slumping American math scores
Scholars see solutions in classroom creativity, higher teacher pay — and attendance
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Nation & World
Girls fell further behind in math during, after pandemic
Leading sociologist says emotional, family, social disruptions likelier cause than school closures
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Nation & World
As states take lead in fixing U.S. schools, Harvard will serve as a hub
Grad School of Education will partner with nine states — from Rhode Island to Texas — to look for practical solutions to low test scores, chronic absenteeism
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Health
‘Dry January’ helped drive drinking rates to 96-year low
Health experts say rise of sober-curious movement, shifts in tech, meds likely made difference in wake of pandemic excess
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Science & Tech
‘I exist solely for you, remember?’
Researchers detail 6 ways chatbots seek to prolong ‘emotionally sensitive events’
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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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Health
‘Shared humanity’ is their call to action, here and there
No letup in doctors’ commitment to easing suffering in world’s danger zones
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Work & Economy
Why employers want workers with high EQs
‘Future of Jobs’ report highlights value of emotional intelligence
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Health
Racing against antibiotic resistance
Scientists fear funding cuts will slow momentum in ongoing battle with evolving bacteria
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Arts & Culture
Reading like it’s 1989
Report on classroom literature shows staying power for ‘Gatsby,’ ‘Of Mice and Men,’ other classics. Time to move on?
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Nation & World
Foundation for U.S. breakthroughs feels shakier to researchers
Funding cuts seen as threat to nation’s status as driver of scientific progress
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Health
Overlooked climate-change danger: Wildfire smoke
Researchers rush to get hands around multiple serious health risks as blazes mount — and get bigger
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Campus & Community
Peabody Museum charts progress on repatriation
NAGPRA project staff doubled to support three-year commitment for consultation, return of all ancestors and associated funerary belongings.
