Faculty
Insights into groundbreaking faculty research, innovative projects, and academic thought leadership across Harvard’s schools and institutes.
Five Questions with Michèle Duguay
A Harvard scholar of music theory on how streaming services have changed the experience of music
Wind Powering China
China could produce seven times its current electricity needs using wind alone.
Scrutinizing facial-recognition ability
“Super-recognizers” have an astonishing ability to identify faces.
The Poor Payoff of Pleasure Postponed
Why a little self-indulgence makes sense.
Gamma-ray bursts reveal the oldest star yet discovered
A star more than 13 billion years old
A risk-management plan to help prevent financial crises
Financial regulation, moral hazard, and the end of “too big to fail”
The erosion of privacy in the Internet era
The erosion of privacy in the Internet era
Tyler Moore explains how the bad guys take over personal computers
Phishing pits an organized criminal ecosystem against a jumbled array of private "takedown" firms, domain-name registrars, and ISPs.
Jill Lepore on Ayelet Waldman, Michael Lewis, and the cultural history of parent
History professor Jill Lepore's take on recent parenting memoirs
A professor with Harvard Kennedy School ties attacks gang violence.
A professor with Kennedy School ties questions zero-tolerance policing policies.
Jefferson's Conundrum
Mathematician Lawren Smithline ’94 has decrypted an encoded message sent to Thomas Jefferson in 1801.