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Is Ultraprocessed Food Really That Bad?

A Harvard professor challenges conventional wisdom. 

by Craig Lambert

Primal Kitchens

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.

by Jonathan Shaw

Film Flopology

Japan's No-Aerobics

A recent World Health Organization study, coauthored by Christopher Murray, professor of international health economics, ranked the Japanese as...

Distant Planets

In the last five years, the idea of finding planets orbiting other stars has gone from a science-fiction fantasy to a reality frequently...

by Jonathan Shaw

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...

by Craig Lambert