Light Blitzes Plaque

Fast forward a decade and imagine what a drugstore shelf might hold. A pill containing an entire day’s nutrients? A gadget that confers...

by Elizabeth Gudrais

Published in the January-February 2006 print issue in the Right Now section.

How brushing and flossing can protect your heart

In the wake of federal government actions, several Harvard schools and institutes are cutting costs.

Amid distrust of science, Paula Johnson tells medical and dental graduates to be “citizen-physicians.”

The University will compensate families of those whose remains were sold and establish a scholarship to honor anatomical donors.

All That’s Unseen charts the Harvard graduate’s uneasy journey from Appalachia to Cambridge and back.

Back-and-forth reports on settlement talks, new accusations from the government, and a reshuffling of two federal compliance offices

The Gretel and the Great War author on how the Lampoon derailed his science career—and set him on a literary path.

A roundup of University news from the summer of 2026

Harvard researchers achieve medical breakthroughs in cancer therapy and infection control.