Features

Why Harvard Needs International Students

Global challenges demand global experiences

by Fernando M. Reimers

The Imbalance of Power

For more than 50 years, the transatlantic partnership between the United States and Europe has been the linchpin of this country's foreign...

The True Magic Pill: Why Exercise Outperforms Every Drug for Health and Longevity

From survival of the fittest to staying fit just to survive, scientists probe the benefits of exercise.

by Jonathan Shaw

Walter Channing

In a career spanning nearly six decades, Walter Channing provided the medical skills and compassionate care women sought as they faced the pain...

by Amalie M. Kass

A God’s Eye View of Space

Harvard's plans to complete its "North Campus" in Cambridge took an important step forward when the University reached an agreement...

by Craig Lambert

Peacemakers

If there is going to be a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict," says Robert H. Mnookin, "the rough outlines of what...

by Christopher Reed

The Deficit Danger

At the time of the last presidential election campaign, four years ago, the government was running a sizable budget surplus. That surplus...

Janos Plesch

In1937, John Maynard Keynes had a serious heart attack. His British doctors more or less gave up on him and prescribed indefinite bed rest. But...

The Hydrogen-Powered Future

Drive up a country road winding between horse pastures, cross a small bridge, then climb a gravel lane, and you can reach a house that seems to...

by Craig Lambert

Final Architect

This story has taken a surprising turn. Blame it on the tomatoes.It started out as a profile of a popular professor, his populous course, and...

DNA as Data

When George McDonald Church arrived at Harvard in 1977, nine out of 10 biologists did research without touching a computer. They wrote journal...