Featured series 
Tag: Research
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Work & Economy
What your credit score says about how, where you were raised
Study looks at national disparities, finds bill-paying habits emerge by early adulthood, influence upward mobility
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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
Is dirty air driving up dementia rates?
Federal funding cuts halt 3 studies exploring how pollution and heat affect the brain and heart
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Health
Getting to the root of teen distracted driving
7 in 10 young people use cellphones while behind the wheel, finds a new study that also takes a look at why
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Campus & Community
2 new initiatives strengthen Harvard’s academic engagement with Israel
Opportunities for undergraduate study abroad and research exchange in biomedicine
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Campus & Community
‘Learning without a net’
Here are 5 students doing summer research with faculty in topics from heat mortality to epigenetics, Legionnaires’ disease to anorexia
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Science & Tech
How do math, reading skills overlap? Researchers were closing in on answers.
Grant terminated at critical point of ambitious study following students for five years
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Science & Tech
Taking a second look at executive function
New study suggests what has long been considered innate aspect of human cognition may be more a matter of schooling
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Science & Tech
You’re a deer mouse, and bird is diving at you. What to do? Depends.
Neural study shows how evolution prepared two species to adopt different survival strategies to take advantage of native habitats
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Science & Tech
A step toward solving central mystery of life on Earth
Experiment with synthetic self-assembling materials suggests how it all might have begun
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Health
Going to bed earlier may help you hit fitness goals
New study finds link between sleep curfew, higher levels of moderate-to-vigorous physical activity
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Campus & Community
Harvard seeks restoration of research funds
University argues Trump administration violated free speech rights, ignored procedural provisions in federal court hearing
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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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Science & Tech
Snapshots from front lines of federal research funding cuts
Faculty detail scramble to save work and talented researchers, both those in labs and in pipeline
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Health
Road to game-changing cancer treatment
The recent development of cancer immunotherapies marks a turning point in the centuries-old quest to fight cancer by harnessing the power of patients’ own immune systems.
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Health
‘It’s through research that we can live longer, healthier lives’
Harvard scientists discuss potential impacts of federal funding cuts — from U.S. brain drain to fewer medical breakthroughs
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Health
‘Miraculous’ treatments for more patients
David Mooney’s team develops immunotherapies that work across many cancer types
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Health
Improving cancer care
Nancy Keating’s team uses healthcare data to study access to treatment across populations
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Health
Attack of the cells
Duane Wesemann’s lab looks to body’s immune system to understand and treat disorders, allergies
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Health
Hearing breakthrough
David Corey’s lab closes in on revolutionary interventions to treat hereditary deafness
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Health
HIV resurgence
Epidemiologist Jeff Imai-Eaton warns funding cuts could reverse decades of gains in prevention, care
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Science & Tech
Does AI understand?
It may be getting smarter, but it’s not thinking like humans (yet), say experts
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Science & Tech
Ancient DNA solves mystery of Hungarian, Finnish language family’s origins
Parent emerged over 4,000 years ago in Siberia, farther east than many thought, then rapidly spread west
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Science & Tech
Hot dispute over impact
Harvard team argues oldest meteorite strike to Earth may be more recent, smaller than claimed; site may offer hints on asteroid craters, life on Mars
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Science & Tech
Long in the tooth
Research finds 18-million-year-old enamel proteins in mammal fossils, offering window into how prehistoric animals lived, evolved
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Health
‘Have a healthy respect that nature sometimes bites back’
It’s a bad year for ticks. Here are some precautions, and steps to take if you get bitten.
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Science & Tech
3 tech solutions to societal needs will get help moving to market
Projects targeting heart health, data demands, quantum computing win Grid Accelerator awards
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Health
Why are women twice as likely to develop Alzheimer’s as men?
Researchers focusing on chromosomes, menopause
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Health
Meditation provides calming solace — except when it doesn’t
Researchers find ways to promote altered states of consciousness, reduce risks of distress that affect some
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