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Is Ultraprocessed Food Really That Bad?
A Harvard professor challenges conventional wisdom.
Torturers think victims expressing pain are guilty
Inflicting pain changes the perceptions of torturers, not necessarily their knowledge.
Hausmann and Hidalgo find wealthier economies are also more complex
The most prosperous countries have economies that produce a variety of goods.
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.
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.
How cooking made us human
A Harvard anthropologist argues that cooking, a cultural practice, crucially shaped human evolution.
"Spaced education" improves learning
With “spaced education,” a surgeon offers a better way to learn.
Do maternal and paternal genes compete in children?
Imprinted genes may affect the timing of pregnancy and nursing in humans.