Tag: Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences

  • Nation & World

    Want to know how cold it was in 1490? Ask a tree

    Tree rings could hold clues to climate change and forest change.

    7 minutes
    Tree cores Harvard Forest
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    Taking a step toward discovering the cause of joint disease

    A Harvard study could lead to potential therapeutics for one of the most prominent ailments of the elderly and one of the most prominent musculoskeletal defects in newborns.

    5 minutes
    Hip and leg illustration.
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    Brown-Nagin named Radcliffe dean

    Tomiko Brown-Nagin, a leading historian on law and society as well as an authority on constitutional and education law and policy, has been named dean of Harvard’s Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.

    7 minutes
    Tomiko Brown-Nagin
  • Nation & World

    Me, steal? Impossible

    New findings suggest a surprisingly common default in human behavior: the view that immoral actions are impossible.

    3 minutes
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    A hidden Declaration

    A discovery of the Declaration in the south of England set a pair of researchers on a two-year journey into American history.

    5 minutes
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    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.

    3 minutes
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    We can work it out

    A new task force report by the American Political Science Association takes a close look at the causes of and cures for political stalemates in Congress.

    6 minutes
  • Nation & World

    With a little help from our ancient friends

    The social networks of the Hadza, a group of hunter-gatherers in Tanzania, show evidence that many elements of social network structure may have been present at an early point in human history.

    6 minutes
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    FAS Dean Smith looks ahead

    As it emerges from the worst of the global financial crisis, Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) is renewing its focus on priorities ranging from House Renewal to innovative pedagogy. With the release of the 2010 FAS annual report, Dean Michael D. Smith, John H. Finley Jr. Professor of Engineering and Applied Sciences, spoke…

    10 minutes