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Tag: Research
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Health
Call it his personal Everest
A new study shows that climbing Mount Everest has gotten safer, but still claims climbers’ lives regularly.
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Health
Guide to a healthy gut
Test your knowledge by taking our quiz — featuring advice from doctor’s new book
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Health
Hearing breakthrough holds up
Gene therapy yields lasting gains for patients with inherited deafness: ‘How well it worked is really amazing.’
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Health
Dangers coming from inside the house
John D. Spengler reflects on 50-year career of clearing the air — including in hockey rinks and on airplanes
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Health
Blood test has potential to detect earliest signals of Alzheimer’s disease
New study suggests higher levels of pTau217 predict a faster progression, even when initial brain scans appear normal
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Health
Rural U.S. bears heaviest burden accessing dental care
Researchers find 24.7 million Americans live in dental deserts, with transportation and specialty care the steepest barriers
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Health
How super-agers keep their brains young
In podcast, experts break down ‘biological contradiction’ of a 65-year-old with the memory of a 25-year-old — and what that means for the rest of us
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Nation & World
‘This is not about Harvard. It is about higher education.’
Garber discusses threat to university-government partnership, AI, fighting bias on campus in talk at 92NY
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Science & Tech
Bone-eating worms and other deep-sea survivors
‘Dark Frontier’ author details life in one of Earth’s harshest environments and quest to carve out ‘national parks’ of the oceans
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Health
Expanding the fight against heart disease
Specialist welcomes shift to more aggressive recommendations
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Health
How forgiving can improve well-being
New study of residents of 22 nations finds psychological, pro-social, character changes
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Health
Are your bathroom habits normal?
In new book, doctor addresses everything you wanted to know but were afraid to ask
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Health
Demystifying migraine
‘It’s not an imagined headache, and it’s not a mild condition,’ says Michael Moskowitz, Brain Prize recipient for his dogma-defying research
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Science & Tech
The ascent of us
Anthropologist traces split between Homo sapiens and Neanderthals, other human forms
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Science & Tech
A world-shifting moment (literally)
Geoscientists track when Earth went from ‘just another planet’ to ‘something very special’
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Nation & World
How high school shapes future success
Study associates 2 factors with better long-term outcomes, including higher earnings at age 30
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Science & Tech
Aramont Fellowships give scientists freedom to concentrate on high-risk, high-reward research
Renewed gift significantly expands the impact of early-career support
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Science & Tech
Study suggests healing skin without scarring may be possible
Researchers unblock embryonic regrowth mechanism that shuts down after birth in mice
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Science & Tech
Ultra-cool step toward transformative technologies
University physicists gain new window into superconductivity by improving device pioneered by Harvard Nobelist Percy Bridgman
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Health
Want to feel more loved? Forget changing yourself. Change conversation.
Two psychologists offer science-backed framework on how to improve relationships
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Health
‘Harvard Thinking’: The things we carry
In podcast, experts discuss how trauma can reshape us — down to the cellular level
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Health
Thymus may be critical to adult health
Research indicates often-overlooked organ can be key predictor in longevity, disease risk, cancer treatment outcomes
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Nation & World
Want better schools? It’s all up to states.
Education scholar Thomas Kane says that’s lesson of recent ‘Southern Surge’ in test scores
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Health
Why we need Black bioethics
Panel points to historical examples, including Tuskegee experiment, pandemic, and life expectancy inequities
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Health
Federal drug price reforms are working, study says
Medicare beneficiaries skipping fewer medications due to cost
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Health
Can’t wait to listen? You should.
Research inspired by driving lapse finds link between album drops, road fatalities
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Arts & Culture
How Ben Franklin put a charge into American independence
Reputation in science was key to his political power, historian says. On the other hand, ‘Frankenstein.’
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Health
Warning signs of alcohol-use disorder relapse
New study focuses on those with long history of sobriety
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Health
Daily multivitamin may slow biological aging
Greatest gains for participants who were biologically older, researchers say
