Science & Technology


AI is Making Medical Decisions — But For Whom?

Doctors warn that without an ethical framework, patients could be left behind.

by Olivia Farrar

Radcliffe Institute Announces 2025-2026 Fellows

Scholars pursue projects ranging from reducing ethnic violence to searching for an undiscovered super-Earth.

by Olivia Farrar

Taking the Fight for Equality into the AI Era

Radcliffe Institute conference tackles bias, fairness, inclusivity in AI development.

by Tamara Evdokimova

Research on Hold

Funding freeze halts Harvard projects overnight.

by Nina Pasquini

We Were Students Once...

Young love: the poem, plus enduring lessons from a public-health pioneer

by Primus VI

Alice Hamilton

Brief life of a public-health pioneer and reformer: 1869-1970

by Daniel Stone

Ben Franklin’s Project

Historian Joyce E. Chaplin reinterprets an early era of invention, industrialization, and climate challenge

by Joyce E. Chaplin

News in Brief

Physician-authors address Commencement and Alumni Day, new School of Education Dean, and more

In the Crosshairs

Unprecedented federal actions against research funding, diversity, speech, and more

by John S. Rosenberg

The Dangers of Mirror Life

Life forms built from left-handed DNA and RNA could threaten Earth’s plants, animals, and insects.

by Ann Thomas

Housing in the Climate Crosshairs

A Harvard briefing on climate change and the U.S. housing crisis

by Jonathan Shaw