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Is Ultraprocessed Food Really That Bad?
A Harvard professor challenges conventional wisdom.
Pleasure by Proxy: How Other People’s Experiences Help Predict Happiness
Other people’s experience is a more accurate guide than your own imagination to what you will like.
Physicists Capasso and Yu make many lasers from one
Harvard researchers have developed multibeam, multiwavelength miniature lasers.
Torturers think victims expressing pain are guilty
Inflicting pain changes the perceptions of torturers, not necessarily their knowledge.
Advancing toward a universal flu vaccine
Researchers may have found the viruses' Achilles heel
Genomic architecture
Harvard and UMass researchers elucidate DNA's ability to file data and fit into the nucleus.
Work-life balance hard on women in finance
Research on work-life balance casts the financial sector in a harsh light.
Anthropologist Heather Paxson studies American artisanal cheese
Heather Paxson explores the anthropology of American artisanal cheese.
Do maternal and paternal genes compete in children?
Imprinted genes may affect the timing of pregnancy and nursing in humans.
Orchid bees and flight turbulence
Orchid bees in flight extend their hind legs for stability.
How cooking made us human
A Harvard anthropologist argues that cooking, a cultural practice, crucially shaped human evolution.