Faculty & Research

Microscope examining Harvard Medical School building held by gloved hand, with stethoscope and Harvard shields.

University News |

Research on Hold

Funding freeze halts Harvard projects overnight.

by Nina Pasquini

Right Now | September-October 2009

Facial Pheenoms

“Super-recognizers” have an astonishing ability to identify faces.

by Craig Lambert

In her research, Anat Keinan asks people to reflect on their regrets over choices made in the near and distant past.

Right Now | September-October 2009

The Poor Payoff of Pleasure Postponed

Why a little self-indulgence makes sense.

by Elizabeth Gudrais

Gas jets punch out of the collapsing star and blast into space, producing gamma rays that can be detected billions of light years away.

Right Now | September-October 2009

The Oldest Object

A star more than 13 billion years old

by Jonathan Shaw

Features | September-October 2009

An Ounce of Prevention

Financial regulation, moral hazard, and the end of “too big to fail”

by David A. Moss

Latanya Sweeney

Features | September-October 2009

Exposed

The erosion of privacy in the Internet era

by Jonathan Shaw

Tyler Moore, left, with Allan Friedman, a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Research on Computation and Society

| September-October 2009

Phishing for Trust Online

Phishing pits an organized criminal ecosystem against a jumbled array of private "takedown" firms, domain-name registrars, and ISPs.

by Jonathan Shaw

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The Phenomenon of Parenting

History professor Jill Lepore's take on recent parenting memoirs

David Kennedy

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Attacking Gang Violence, One City at a Time

A professor with Kennedy School ties questions zero-tolerance policing policies.

Robert Patterson’s letter to Thomas Jefferson included a worked example of his cipher. He began by writing his message in lower-case letters and in columns, running top to bottom like Chinese. This example begins with the words “Buonaparte has at last given peace to Europe,” legible in the first two columns.

Right Now | July-August 2009

Jefferson's Conundrum

Mathematician Lawren Smithline ’94 has decrypted an encoded message sent to Thomas Jefferson in 1801.

by Craig Lambert

Traditional light-microscopy, such as this image of human brain-tumor cells in culture, still has a place in cancer research.

Right Now | July-August 2009

Virtual Tumors

Modeling tumors may help scientists beat cancer.

by Mike Martin