Faculty
Insights into groundbreaking faculty research, innovative projects, and academic thought leadership across Harvard’s schools and institutes.
Jason Furman: Capitalism Is Working. It Could Work Better.
On Open to Debate, the Harvard economist defended free market competition—with meaningful government involvement.
Energy-Saving, Low-Cost Air Conditioning
Two new technologies could provide an eco-friendly cooling solution.
Reparations for Slavery?
Documenting the history and scope of federal “reparatory compensation.”
How the Brain Replays Actions During Sleep
Experiments using a neuroprosthetic reveal nocturnal motor neuron learning.
Science Surges
Fostering businesses within enginnering and applied sciences, Amazon’s quantum support, and changing concentrations
George Reisner
Brief life of a pioneering Egyptologist: 1867-1942
The Off-Kilter Economy
Reckoning with inflation and its remedies
Greenland’s Fingerprint in Rising Seas
Satellite data reveal the first unambiguous evidence linking a melting ice sheet to a predicted pattern of sea level rise.
Will Global Democracy Survive?
Scholars on the current rise of fascism, domestically and abroad
Human and Machine Intelligence
Launching Harvard’s Kempner Institute
Seeking the First Speakers of Indo-European Language
Ancient DNA sheds new light on the origins of a lingua franca.