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Is Ultraprocessed Food Really That Bad?
A Harvard professor challenges conventional wisdom.
From Anecdote to Equation
The idea seems simple enough: Get detailed information about the participants in a given social program—public-housing residents, say, or...
Foundations of Faith?
Public debates about evolution frequently pit science against religion. But work by professor of mathematics and of biology Martin Nowak adds a...
Manhood Reconsidered
As a professor at Harvard Business School, Robin J. Ely has had her share of experience with how men (who constitute 80 percent of the...
Fantastic!
The recent announcement that Lene Vestergaard Hau had successfully changed light to matter, and then back into light, evokes the magic of...
Faculty Faith
In their early years, many American universities had openly religious agendas. Harvard’s own mission, according to a 1643 pamphlet, was...
Might mice with speed and endurance give clues treating degenerative disease
Harvard scientists have created a mighty mouse, a rodent endowed with a rare type of muscle that combines unusual power and speed, like that of...
Artful Engineering
In a single undergraduate course last fall, students tackled all of the following: engineering nanofood particles to combat childhood obesity...
Modern Milk
The milk we drink today may not be nature’s perfect food,” says Ganmaa Davaasambuu, a Mongolian physician who is a fellow this year...
The Healthy Tan
A lotion that tans your skin without exposure to the sun and protects you against skin cancer sounds like the sort of miracle product...
Willing to War
Our minds favor hawks over doves, argues a recent Foreign Policy article. Past psychological research has shown that when it comes to the...