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.”

At informational town hall meetings, faculty and staff press administrators for details.

The underlying arguments project clashing worldviews of race and appropriate remedies.

An animal’s journey from grief to love shows how much humans need each other, too.

Nobel Prize recipient Joseph E. Murray dedicated much of his career to organ transplant surgery.

Harvard scientists identify hundreds of genes under selective pressure.

Harvard graduate and NASCAR racer Patrick Staropoli on pedals, attention, and fearlessness.