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  • Nation & World

    Imaging captures how blood stem cells take root

    Harvard-affiliated researchers have provided a see-through zebrafish and enhanced imaging that offer the first direct glimpse of how blood stem cells take root in the body to generate blood.

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    Sea level correction

    A new study shows that sea levels have increased over the last two decades at a greater rate than previously understood.

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    Some child, left behind?

    On the cusp of a new education bill from Senate Republicans, U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan called this week for repeal and replacement of No Child Left Behind, the signature education reform from a decade ago.

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    Sounding out speech

    A new study demonstrates that infants as young as 6 months can solve the invariance problem in speech perception.

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    Truth vs. ‘truthiness’

    Developmental psychologist Howard Gardner discusses the time-tested values of truth, beauty, and goodness in a three-part lecture series at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

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    Amy Poehler is the 2015 Woman of the Year

    Golden Globe Award-winning actress, comedian, producer, writer, and best-selling author Amy Poehler has been named Hasty Pudding Theatricals’ 2015 Woman of the Year.

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    Eight new planets found in Goldilocks Zone

    Astronomers announced Tuesday that they have found eight new planets in the Goldilocks Zone of their stars, orbiting at a distance where liquid water can exist on the planet’s surface. The discoveries double the number of small planets believed to be in the habitable zone of their parent stars.

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    Year born may determine obesity risk

    Framingham Heart Study, PNAS Early Edition, Harvard Medical School Investigators working to unravel the impact of genetics versus environment on traits such as obesity may also need to consider a new factor: when individuals were born.

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    Bacteria ‘factories’ churn out valuable chemicals

    A team of researchers led by Harvard geneticist George Church at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering and Harvard Medical School has made big strides toward a future in which the predominant chemical factories of the world are colonies of genetically engineered bacteria.

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    A key urban intersection

    Harvard researchers are pushing for a closer look at links between green spaces and health in cities.

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    Using weights to target belly fat

    A Harvard study found that men who did 20 minutes of daily weight training had less increase in age-related abdominal fat than men who spent the same amount of time doing aerobic activities.

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    Taking the Harvard Corporation’s temperature

    Bill Lee reflects on his first six months as senior fellow of the Harvard Corporation, and on challenges and opportunities facing the University in the months and years to come.

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    Kepler ‘rising from the ashes’

    Despite a malfunction that ended its primary mission in May 2013, the Kepler spacecraft is alive and working. The evidence comes from the discovery of a new super-Earth using data collected during Kepler’s “second life.”

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    The old, made new

    The Harvard Semitic Museum, hosting a retrospective exhibit on its long history and founder David Gordon Lyon, is refurbished, reordered, and increasingly ready for the future.

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    Leading role for Murthy

    With Harvard’s Vivek Murthy confirmed as the next surgeon general, health experts shared their views on areas where his focus and influence are most needed.

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    Getting schooled

    A recent Harvard Business School survey on U.S. competitiveness looks at how business is engaged with helping boost K-12 public education and whether these efforts are effective.

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    Taming the ticking mind

    Author and economist Sendhil Mullainathan talks about the research behind “Scarcity: The New Science of Having Less and How It Defines Our Lives.”

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    In racial protests, a continuing ripple effect

    As protests around the nation continued in the wake of decisions by grand juries in Missouri and New York not to indict police officers in the deaths of two unarmed black men, hundreds of Harvard community members expressed their own anger, frustration, and desire for changes in the criminal justice system with a range of…

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    Pointing toward Athens 2.0

    Harvard will partner with Massachusetts General Hospital, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and The Boston Globe for a new, weeklong festival of big ideas and bold solutions next October.

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    Sacvan Bercovitch, 1933-2014

    Harvard’s Sacvan Bercovitch, an influential scholar of Puritan America, dies at 81.

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    Glimpsing Dublin from the wine-dark sea

    Humanities 10, a new two-semester offering, is a big class on the big books, with time out for small seminars.

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    977 admitted to Class of 2019 under Early Action

    Harvard College on Dec. 11 sent admission notifications to 977 prospective students through its Early Action program.

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    A mirror to coercion

    Alberto Mora, a top civilian lawyer for the U.S. Navy in the administration of President George W. Bush and an early critic of the CIA torture program, assesses the findings and conclusions of the newly released Senate Intelligence Committee report.

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    A journey into illness

    Poet and memoirist Meghan O’Rourke is using her time as a Radcliffe Fellow to write “What’s Wrong With Me,” a chronicle of her struggles with autoimmune disease.

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    A pill to shed fat?

    Harvard Stem Cell Institute researchers have taken what they describe as “the first step toward a pill that can replace the treadmill” for the control of obesity.

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    Grace Hopper, computing pioneer

    Author Walter Isaacson’s new book is “The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution.” Here is an excerpt about computing pioneer Grace Hopper from his book.

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    A leap across the pond

    College seniors Michael George and Anna Hagen have won Marshall Scholarships for graduate work in the United Kingdom.

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    Precancerous state found in blood

    Harvard researchers have uncovered an easily detectable, “premalignant” state in the blood that significantly increases the likelihood that an individual will go on to develop blood cancers such as leukemia, lymphoma, or myelodysplastic syndrome.

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    Fresh start at the VA

    Robert McDonald, new U.S. secretary of veterans affairs, detailed initial progress in reforming the department, which has been scarred by revelations of mismanagement and lengthy, perhaps life-threatening, waits for veterans needing care.

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    Moving forward

    The recipient of a bilateral arm transplant and his surgeons appeared at a news conference on Tuesday to thank the donor’s family and to discuss the procedure.

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