Features
To Promote Healthy Habits in Patients, Start with the Doctors
Why Harvard Medical School is training physicians to think more like coaches
Six Decades of Computer Science at Harvard
Reflections on six decades of relations with computers
The Remarkable Master of Eliot House at Harvard
Brief life of a masterful House Master: 1904-1995
Harvard's Landscape Architect Bas Smets on Cooling Cities
Bas Smets harnesses nature to cool cities.
Can Humans Learn to Speak “Whale”?
Project CETI’s pioneering effort to unlock the language of sperm whales was launched at Harvard.
Why Do Groups Hate?
Mina Cikara explores how people come into conflict, in politics and beyond
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?
Homelessness Is a Crisis of Public Health
In our fragmented system, loss of housing leads to mental and physical deterioration. Some new initiatives aim to connect the remedies.
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