Features
Rachel Ruysch’s Lush (Still) Life
Now on display at the Museum of Fine Arts, a Dutch painter’s art proved a treasure trove for scientists.
Why Do Groups Hate?
Mina Cikara explores how people come into conflict, in politics and beyond
Can Plants Sequestering Carbon Slow Climate Change?
How long will the world’s forests impound carbon below ground?
How Homelessness is a Public Health Crisis
Homelessness has surged in the United States, with devastating effects on the public health system.
The Harvard Graduate and Early Vegetarian Benjamin Smith Lyman
Brief life of the vegetarian trailblazer, 1835-1920
Diagnosis by Fiction
The “Healing Quartet” probes medicine—and life.
Why Americans Love to Hate Harvard
The president emeritus on elite universities’ academic accomplishments—and a rising tide of antagonism
by Derek Bok
How Birds Lost Flight
Scott Edwards discovers evolution’s master switches.
Winthrop Bell: Harvard Philosopher, MI6 Spy, and Early Forecaster of the Holocaust
Brief life of a philosopher and spy: 1884-1965
by Jason Bell
Zelia Nuttall
Brief life of a remarkable anthropologist (1857-1933)
Break Every Chain
How black plaintiffs in the Jim Crow South sought justice