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Is Ultraprocessed Food Really That Bad?

A Harvard professor challenges conventional wisdom. 

by Craig Lambert

Compact apartments are proliferating in the United States. Here, artist’s renderings show how the MMNY micro-units, prefabricated in the Brooklyn Navy Yard and shipped to the East 27th Street building site, will be stacked atop each other like Lego bricks.

“My Micro NY” units were created by three Harvard GSD alumni

With micro-units, three GSD alumni hope to revolutionize apartment living in New York City.

by Laura Levis

Scientists Test Effect of Human Gene in Mouse

Scientists probe the function of a human gene by observing its effects in a mouse.

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Years of life added by exercise is now quantified by research

New study reveals just how many years of life are added by varying levels of exercise.

by Erin O’Donnell

Grasping cucumber tendrils coil in two different directions. Close study led to the discovery of a new type of spring.

Harvard's L. Mahadevan Discovers a New Spring in the Tendrils of a Cucumber

In the plant's tendrils, L. Mahadevan and colleagues discover a new type of spring.

by Erin O’Donnell

The modified H5N1 virus could infect a billion people if it escaped a biocontainment lab like the Canadian facility shown above.

Marc Lipsitch warns against experimentation with modified H5N1 virus

Modified H5N1 could infect a billion people if it escapes the lab.

by David Levin

This disortion-free flat lens, less than a millimeter across, uses antennae etched from a layer of gold, rather than glass, to focus laser light.

Lightweight, distortion-free flat lens uses antennae, not glass, to focus light

Harvard scientists have developed a tiny, lightweight, distortion-free lens that focuses light without glass.

by Jonathan Shaw

The breeding habits of tropical cuckoos, whose unrelated adults cooperate to rear young, have raised questions about the limits of kin selection in evolution.

Unrelated tropical cuckoos find safety sharing a communal nest

The breeding behavior of tropical cuckoos, in which unrelated adults share a communal nest, proves an exception to the theory of kin selection.

by W. Barksdale Maynard

door clock chained to feet

High housing costs restrict labor mobility, threatening economic growth

Land-use restrictions lead to growing income disparities between states, Kennedy School researchers find.

Harvard study of teens links soft-drink consumption to violence

A Harvard School of Public Health study links soda to teen violence.

by Elizabeth Gudrais

Mercury pollution in the Arctic flows from Russian rivers says Daniel Jacob

Arctic mercury pollution flows from rivers, not the atmosphere.