Faculty & Community
Insights into groundbreaking faculty research, innovative projects, and academic thought leadership across Harvard’s schools and institutes.
This Astronomer is Sounding a Warning on 'Space Junk'
As debris accumulates in low Earth orbit, the danger of destructive collisions continues to rise.
Science Surges
Fostering businesses within enginnering and applied sciences, Amazon’s quantum support, and changing concentrations
George Reisner
Brief life of a pioneering Egyptologist: 1867-1942
The Off-Kilter Economy
Reckoning with inflation and its remedies
Greenland’s Fingerprint in Rising Seas
Satellite data reveal the first unambiguous evidence linking a melting ice sheet to a predicted pattern of sea level rise.
Will Global Democracy Survive?
Scholars on the current rise of fascism, domestically and abroad
Human and Machine Intelligence
Launching Harvard’s Kempner Institute
Seeking the First Speakers of Indo-European Language
Ancient DNA sheds new light on the origins of a lingua franca.
Re-Wilding Harvard
Bringing native plant species back to campus.
Who Should Drive an Electric Vehicle?
Targeting the wrong buyers—and producing more greenhouse-gas emissions
Origins of the Urban Housing Crisis
The high costs of environmental, historic-preservation, and other good intentions