Faculty & Research
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.
by Olivia Farrar
Does Money Matter?
How super PACs actually shape U.S. presidential politics
by Idrees Kahloon
Food Stamp Entrepreneurs
Welfare promotes entrepreneurship, finds HBS researcher Gareth Olds.
by Lydialyle Gibson
What Makes Teams Tick
A new study finds that the most successful research teams are grounded in a group identity.
by Zara Zhang
Why Sex Succeeds
Sex preserves beneficial mutations, and allows harmful ones to be purged.
by Erin O’Donnell
The Plant Prospectors
Collecting expeditions race the anthropocene extinction to sample wild botanical diversity.
by Jonathan Shaw
Broad Institute Researchers Find New Method to Edit RNA
Feng Zhang ’04 and his team build on previous discoveries in editing DNA.
by Aidan Langston
Centennial Medalists 2016
The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences honors four distinguished alumni.
Narrowing School Achievement Gaps
The Harvard Graduate School of Education launches “By All Means” initiative.
by Aidan Langston
The Changing Consensus on Healthcare Cost-Sharing
Economists question whether price transparency can reduce healthcare spending.
by Marina N. Bolotnikova
How America Grew
Definitive economic history—and a debatable, despairing forecast
by Shane Greenstein