Featured series 
Tag: Research
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Science & Tech
A taste for microbes
New research reveals how the octopus uses arms to sense chemical clues from microbiomes
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Health
Cuts imperil ‘keys to future health’
Project has tracked lives, lifestyles, and well-being of cohorts over decades, led to insights, interventions in cardiovascular disease, cancers, nutrition
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Work & Economy
How market reactions to recent U.S. tariffs hint at start of global shift for nation
Economist updates literature on optimal American import-tax rate in world of interconnected trade, investment
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Health
Hope for sufferers of ‘invisible’ tinnitus disorder
Researchers develop way to objectively measure common malady, which may improve diagnosis, help in developing therapies
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Science & Tech
Out of sight but not out of mind
By 15 months, children can learn the names of objects they’ve never seen
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Campus & Community
Turning 2 decades of discovery into impact
Isaac Kohlberg to step down as senior associate provost and chief technology development officer
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Work & Economy
Remember when corporate America steered clear of politics on social media?
Study finds Twitter surge starting in 2017, most of it Democratic-leaning by surprising range of firms, with negative effects on stock price
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Science & Tech
A step in fight against tick-borne disease
New molecular method differentiates sexes, reveals whether females have mated
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Health
What your brain score says about your body
Simple tool can be used to identify risk factors for cancer and heart disease too, says new study
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Nation & World
Youth gun deaths rise in states that relaxed laws
Study compares child mortality rates before and after 2010 Supreme Court ruling
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Health
Son’s diabetes diagnosis sent scientist on quest for cure
Decades later, Doug Melton and team are testing treatment that could make insulin shots obsolete
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Health
Wildfire smoke can harm heart and lungs even after the fire has ended
First study to fully assess its impact on all major types of cardiovascular, respiratory diseases
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Health
Young researcher’s ALS attack plan is now a no-go
Career award among casualties of ‘terrifying’ cuts affecting lab of David Sinclair
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Science & Tech
Social media fueled divisions. Teaming up may help heal.
Study finds pairing members of opposing parties on the same side to compete in specially designed quiz eases partisanship
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Science & Tech
‘We’re still standing … We can still do important work’
Climate researchers wrestling with losses of federal funding, data, and key tools
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Science & Tech
Science that gives humans more say over their destinies
David Liu’s gene-editing technologies demonstrate game-changing potential in two recent cases
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Nation & World
Judge sides with Harvard on international students
Extends order blocking government’s attempt to revoke participation in Student and Exchange Visitor Program
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Campus & Community
Federal funding freeze leaves grad students, postdocs scrambling for labs, support
Pipeline of up-and-coming researchers an integral part of nation’s innovation ecosystem
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Campus & Community
Upholding the mission in a year of turmoil
Garber greets Commencement with high hopes for students and a strong affirmation of University’s contributions to U.S. growth, health
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Nation & World
Let’s not send low-income students back to the ’80s
Financial aid red tape nearly derailed Susan Dynarski’s undergrad dreams. Now she sees decades of progress under threat.
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Campus & Community
Marine vet’s future was a puzzle. Then he found archaeology.
Shane Rice credits Gen Ed class — and professor’s wall of declassified intelligence photos — with illuminating career path
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Health
Miracle drugs don’t come out of nowhere
Healthcare, innovation experts say funding cuts to university labs will slow or stop basic research on which breakthroughs are built
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Health
Vitamin D supplements may slow biological aging
Trial shows protection against telomere shortening, which heightens disease risk
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Science & Tech
Chance to branch off in new directions
Seven novel research projects awarded grants by Star-Friedman Challenge
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Science & Tech
‘We have a way of steering a fly like you would a car’
Geneticists find method to turn tiny bugs into living robots
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Health
We know exercise is good for you. Why? He‘s working on it.
Expanding on decades of research, a new study seeks to pinpoint movement’s molecular benefits
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Nation & World
Things money can’t buy — like happiness and better health
That’s according to the Harvard Study of Adult Development, which over its 87-year run has generated data that benefits work on other issues
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Campus & Community
‘There are secrets to unlock’
Harvard’s practice of preservation plays key role in future research
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Science & Tech
How do extremists get that way? Probably quite naturally.
In new book, neuroscientist Leor Zmigrod traces connections between brain biology, political beliefs
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Health
‘Smoldering’ cardiovascular crisis
Downward trend in deaths appears stalled due to lack of urgency among doctors, patients, along with healthcare barriers
