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Is Ultraprocessed Food Really That Bad?
A Harvard professor challenges conventional wisdom.
Clues on the Wing
Vladimir A. Lukhtanov saw Agrodiaetus butterflies of several species flying together, and even though they all looked much the same in most...
Overseas Insourcing
Since the 1950s, the United States has led the world in science and technology, training an unrivaled pool of physicists, engineers, biologists...
Too Much Sunscreen?
For many summers, people have slathered and sprayed on sunscreens and fretted about SPF factors while scrambling to protect themselves from...
Sonatas from Syndromes
In a biography of composer Robert Schumann (1810-1856), Richard Kogan ’77, M.D. ’81, found startling episodes like this: “In a...
Cheering Chow
Each year, about 19 million adult Americans report the onset of depression, according to the National Institute of Mental Health. That’s...
Self-Esteem, Real and Phony
When Tom Brady joined the New England Patriots as a sixth-round draft pick in 2000, he told the team’s owner, Bob Kraft, “I’m...
Tsunami-Safe(r) Housing
Last December’s devastating tsunami leveled building walls that faced the sea in Sri Lankabut walls perpendicular to the shoreline...
The Patent Trap
Patentsa form of governmental protection to prevent ideas from being sold or used by someone else without permissionhave a long and...
A Taste for Extinction
The island nation of Madagascar boasts not only one of the highest levels of species diversity on earth, but also unparalleled rates of...
Society's Casino
In the fall of 2001, Americans drastically revised their travel habits. “Driving went up, and flying went down,” says David Ropeik...