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.”

In 2004, a frenzy spread across Harvard Yard in days. Four billion users later, we are only just catching up.

Explaining taxi and ambulance drivers’ protection against Alzheimer’s disease.

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

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

In 1954, Gregory Corso moved into Eliot House. How he stayed there is a literary legend.

Harvard Art Museums restores a rare glimpse of an American master.