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Is Ultraprocessed Food Really That Bad?
A Harvard professor challenges conventional wisdom.
Aiding the “Doubly Disadvantaged”
Sociologist Anthony Jack studies two types of low-income students.
Why is exercise hard?
Evolution shaped humans to rest—and to run only when absolutely necessary.
Welfare promotes entrepreneurship, says Gareth Olds of Harvard Business School
Welfare promotes entrepreneurship, finds HBS researcher Gareth Olds.
Emotional connections key to successful cross-disciplinary research
A new study finds that the most successful research teams are grounded in a group identity.
by Zara Zhang
Why evolution favors sex
Sex preserves beneficial mutations, and allows harmful ones to be purged.
Harvard scientist captures image of cancer's single-cell origin
Seeing when cancer begins helps Leonard Zon track down factors triggering the disease.
Harvard endocrinologist David Ludwig says all calories are not created equal
Avoid refined sugars and processed carbohydrates, says endocrinologist David Ludwig.
by Laura Levis
Harvard economist Claudia Goldin examines the gender wage gap
Economist Claudia Goldin investigates what causes the gender wage gap, and what doesn't.
Harvard historians: ice records shed light on medieval climate
Historians at Harvard's Initiative for the Science of the Human Past investigate ice cores.
Economists debate the merits of school choice
Economists rethink the merits of school-choice systems.