Faculty & Research
Harvard Ramps Up Fundraising as Research Cuts Deepen
This week in the battle between Harvard and the Trump administration
by Nina Pasquini
Butterfly Wings in a New Light
A study reveals new dimensions to their function and beauty.
by Bennett McIntosh
Linking Lifestyle to Stem Cells
Exercise attenuates stem cell production of pro-inflammatory white blood cells.
by Jonathan Shaw
The Risks of Homeschooling
Elizabeth Bartholet highlights risks when parents have 24/7 authoritarian control over their children.
by Erin O'Donnell
Frontiers...
Activity tracking to identify the at-risk elderly, and China’s offshore windfarm potential
by Jonathan Shaw
Susan Murphy
Portrait of a hockey-playing statistician—from Louisiana
by Lydialyle Gibson
Will Truth Prevail?
A student scientist contemplates power and the denial of scholarship.
by Drew Pendergrass
From Lewis and Clark to Michael Brown
Walter Johnson’s radical history of St. Louis
by Marina N. Bolotnikova
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin
Brief life of a breakthrough astronomer: 1900-1979
by Donovan Moore
Resolving Inflammation
An HMS symposium highlights the immune system’s role in ending inflammation.
by Jonathan Shaw
How Deforestation Damages Even the Rainforests That Survive It
The world needs tropical forests—but rainforest destruction continues unabated, and it may be even worse than you thought.
by Marina N. Bolotnikova