Research & Ideas
Discover Harvard research, scholarship, and ideas shaping the world—from science and technology to policy, education, and the humanities.
Jason Furman: Capitalism Is Working. It Could Work Better.
On Open to Debate, the Harvard economist defended free market competition—with meaningful government involvement.
The Harvard Ballerina and Physicist
Ballerina and quantum physicist Merritt Moore ’11 connects humans and machines.
Can Plants Sequester Enough Carbon To Slow Climate Change?
The world’s forests impound carbon below ground, a Harvard scientist shows, but for how long?
Out with the Sake, in with the Ale
Reading and translating a Chinese poem with Stephen Owen
LaToya M. Hobbs Exhibit "Carving Out Time" Debuts at Harvard Art Museums
A monumental exhibit of woodblock prints from the Harvard Art Museums
Pablo Picasso Exhibit Opens at Harvard Art Museums
Harvard Art Museums exhibit on depictions of combat and revolution
Inside Harvard’s Taylor Swift Course
An English course pairs the music with Willa Cather, William Wordsworth, and Dolly Parton.
Vacationing with a Purpose
New England “summer camps” for adults
Spellbound on Stage
Actor and young adult novelist Aislinn Brophy
A Dogged Observer
Novelist and psychiatrist Daniel Mason takes the long view.
Making Space
The natural history of Junko Yamamoto’s art and architecture