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Is Ultraprocessed Food Really That Bad?
A Harvard professor challenges conventional wisdom.
Lights. Action. Asthma.
What is it like living with asthma?
How can some species survive without sex?
Matthew Meselson and David Mark Welch explore the role of sex in evolutionary biology.
Japan's No-Aerobics
A recent World Health Organization study, coauthored by Christopher Murray, professor of international health economics, ranked the Japanese as...
The Curse of Adonis
When professor of psychiatry Harrison G. Pope Jr. '69, M.P.H. '72, M.D. '74, began lifting weights in 1980, it was seen as "rare and exotic...
The Gated Menace of "Private Cities"
Neighborhoods are the building blocks of a metropolitan area. But neighborhoods are not identical units, such as bricks; quite dissimilar, they...