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Is Ultraprocessed Food Really That Bad?
A Harvard professor challenges conventional wisdom.
Raiders Rehabilitated
Harvard Business School professor Josh Lerner and coauthors offer a revisionist view of corporate raiders and their Gordon Gekko image after reviewing 5,000 buyouts...
by Josh Lerner
What Stress Reveals
Biologist Susan Lindquist investigates how HSP90 (heat-shock protein 90), a protein chaperone, provides a molecular mechanism that may help explain punctuated equilibrium in evolution...
Treasure in the Genome’s Trash
The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard often grabs headlines for its discoveries about the genetics underlying such diseases as cancer, heart...
The ancient Mesopotamian settlement of Tell Brak
Evidence of ancient urbanism at the Mesopotamian settlement of Tell Brak....
by Paul Gleason
The Aging Brain
Looking at the effects of aging on healthy people's brains...
Climate Change Solutions?
Electrochemcial weathering: a new CO2 mitigation strategy...
Flocking to Finance
Recent graduates may take for granted the migration of one-fifth of their classmates into finance-sector jobs, but things haven’t always...
When Minnie Turns Mickey
If males are from Mars and females from Venus, as self-help author John Gray memorably suggested, sex hormones usually get the blame for placing...
"Tyrant Fever's" Trigger
When an infection assails the body, the response is predictable. Fever, loss of appetite, fatigue, that achy feeling—we never get just one...
Born Digital
Forty years ago they were “Born Free,” 20 years ago they were “Born in the U.S.A.,” but today kids are born digital, and...
by Paul Gleason