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Is Ultraprocessed Food Really That Bad?
A Harvard professor challenges conventional wisdom.
Is there a language of behavior?
Sandeep Datta says the brain composes behavior from pre-existing “syllables.”
A. Sloan Devlin Seeks to Decrypt the Gut Microbiome
Altering one gene in a gut microbe transforms metabolism.
Diversity and diminishing tax revenues: research by Marco Tabellini
Can public goods survive white flight?
Ranking Extinctions by Ecological Impact
New research on extinctions shows that their ecological impact can’t be measured in numbers of species lost.
When Capital Trumps Labor
In the antebellum South, slavery was paired with modern business practices.
The argument for geographically targeted economic interventions
Could place-based policies solve regional economic and social problems?
by Oset Babür
The Language of Emotion
Developmental psychologists find a surprising relationship between age and emotional understanding.
Harvard’s HouseZero, the building that thinks
The Center for Green Buildings and Cities aims to reduce energy used to heat and cool buildings to nearly zero.
Air quality’s critical impact on U.S. mortality rates
Harvard researchers revisit and reaffirm a controversial environmental study.
by Oset Babür
Behavioral “nudges” boost student performance
Interventions that mobilize family support networks have powerful effects.