Faculty & Research
Research on Hold
Funding freeze halts Harvard projects overnight.
by Nina Pasquini
How Air Pollution Affects Our Brains
An expert Harvard panel discusses the links between air pollution and dementia, learning, mental health, and mood.
by Jonathan Shaw
How Birds Lost Flight
Scott Edwards discovers evolution’s master switches.
by Veronique Greenwood
Reengineering Arts and Sciences
Spurring innovation, rethinking departments, tapping centers—and Ph.D. support
by John S. Rosenberg
George Sarrinikolaou
Provost for climate and sustainability’s journey from Athens to Harvard
by Nina Pasquini
Computational Control of a Living Brain?
How an AI agent learned to guide an animal to food—and what it might mean for Parkinson’s patients.
by Jonathan Shaw
Controlling AI Influence over Consumers
When pricing algorithms take advantage of an individual’s ignorance, legal scrutiny is in order.
by Max J. Krupnick
Historical Record v. Trump
Harvard historians’ Supreme Court brief
by Max J. Krupnick
Geopolitics and the Energy Transition
International relations during the shift to a net-zero economy
by Jonathan Shaw
Cousins in the Ancient World
Long-distance human migration and population bottlenecks revealed in ancient DNA
by Jonathan Shaw
Solving Dehydration
A simple solution that saved millions
by Max J. Krupnick