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Insights into groundbreaking faculty research, innovative projects, and academic thought leadership across Harvard’s schools and institutes.

An image of a doctor writing set against a background of code, representing AI

How to Care for Patients in AI-Driven Medicine

Harvard’s Arthur Kleinman reflects on what’s lost when healthcare systems prioritize efficiency.

by Olivia Farrar

Illustration by Dan Page

A risk-management plan to help prevent financial crises

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

by David A. Moss

Latanya Sweeney

The erosion of privacy in the Internet era

The erosion of privacy in the Internet era

by Jonathan Shaw

Scrutinizing facial-recognition ability

“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.

The Poor Payoff of Pleasure Postponed

Why a little self-indulgence makes sense.

by Elizabeth Gudrais

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

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.

by Jonathan Shaw

Jill Lepore on Ayelet Waldman, Michael Lewis, and the cultural history of parent

History professor Jill Lepore's take on recent parenting memoirs

David Kennedy

A professor with Harvard Kennedy School ties attacks gang violence.

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.

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.

Virtual Tumors

Modeling tumors may help scientists beat cancer.

by Mike Martin

Brain images show the differences in activity patterns between the two groups of subjects that professor of psychology Jill Hooley examined. The brains of recovered depressed subjects (left) had more active amygdalae while listening to criticism than did the brains of subjects who had never been depressed. The brains of the latter showed more activation in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (center) and the anterior cingulate cortex (right) compared to brains of subjects with a history of depression.

How Depression Lingers

After depression patients recover, their brains still process criticism differently.

by Elizabeth Gudrais