Tag: Research
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Health
U.S. innovation ecosystem is envy of world. Here’s how it got started.
Economist who studies technological change looks at public-private research partnership amid rising questions on federal funding
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Campus & Community
5 things we learned this week
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Nation & World
Johnny can read. Jane can read. But they may not fully comprehend.
Ed School panel looks at how to reverse declining scores on recent ‘Nation’s Report Card’
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Campus & Community
Telling apples from Apples
Harvard Library search tool will understand intent behind the terms
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Health
A dietary swap that could lengthen your life?
Study finds replacing butter with plant-based oils cuts premature death risk by 17 percent
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Campus & Community
5 things we learned this week
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Science & Tech
Why new qubit may give ultrafast quantum computing a boost
Microsoft discovery appears to be more stable, robust option
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Science & Tech
When the woods are your climate change lab
For these researchers, Harvard Forest is a labor of love, and that love is changing
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Health
New hope for repairing eye damage once thought untreatable
Stem cell therapy safely restores cornea’s surface in clinical trial
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Science & Tech
Exploring superconducting electrons in twisted graphene
Could up the game of lossless power transmission, levitating trains, quantum computing, even energy-efficient detectors for space exploration
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Health
Food, water — and a friendly face
Health professionals view social contact as basic human need. Now researchers have tracked neurological basis for it.
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Health
Older adults at highest risk for suicide, yet have fewest resources
Study highlights imbalance in targets of online suicide prevention efforts
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Health
Harvard startup creating a new class of antibiotics
Compounds show promise against drug-resistant infections, diseases
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Science & Tech
Hinting at answer to a chicken-or-egg question on evolution
Accidental find may help scientists resolve which evolved first: ability to produce oxygen by photosynthesis or consume it by aerobic metabolism
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Health
Eating citrus may lower depression risk
Physician-researcher outlines gut-brain clues behind ‘orange a day’ finding
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Work & Economy
Is AI already shaking up labor market?
4 trends point to major change, say researchers who studied century of tech disruptions
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Nation & World
How progress happens
Vice provost for research details crucial role of NIH support in science and medicine
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Arts & Culture
Tech has changed. Dating? It’s complicated.
If you think algorithms and chatbots are ruining romance, ‘Labor of Love’ author has a history lesson for you
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Health
Big step toward targeted molecular therapies for cancer
Researchers develop innovative approaches to understand, target, disrupt uncontrollable growth of disease
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Nation & World
U.S. students need to start showing up
Detailing latest recovery scorecard, Ed School researcher urges broader action to reduce absenteeism, sharper focus on targeted catch-up efforts
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Science & Tech
What electric fish can teach scientists about NeuroAI
Modeling their behaviors may help in development of new AI systems
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Nation & World
Class surges as factor in who gets sent to prison
Incarceration rates fall for Black Americans, soar for white Americans without college education, finds study
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Campus & Community
Origins of Indo-European? Donation to Art Museums?
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Science & Tech
What prompts genetic adaptation? Ask a finch.
Groundbreaking pangenomic study suggests big DNA flip may have made small bird resistant to some diseases
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Science & Tech
Landmark studies track source of Indo-European languages spoken by 40% of world
Researchers place Caucasus Lower Volga people, speakers of ancestor tongue, in today’s Russia about 6,500 years ago
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Nation & World
Turns out pandemic wasn’t only cause for student setbacks
Education policy expert cites chronic absenteeism, softening of test accountability by states, other issues for poor marks in ‘Nation’s Report Card’
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Health
Different day, different diagnosis?
Study finds spike in ADHD cases on Halloween, highlighting stakes of cognitive bias in medicine
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Health
One way to save lives in jails
Researchers who studied healthcare in dozens of facilities link accreditation to better collaboration and treatment and fewer deaths