Science
Discover the scientific breakthroughs and engineering innovations being pioneered across Harvard’s labs and centers.
U.S. Appeals Court Preserves NIH Research Funding
The court made permanent an injunction preventing caps on reimbursement for overhead costs.
Frontiers
Activity tracking to identify the at-risk elderly, and China’s offshore windfarm potential
Susan Murphy
Portrait of a hockey-playing statistician—from Louisiana
The Undergraduate on power and the denial of scholarship
A student scientist contemplates power and the denial of scholarship.
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin
Brief life of a breakthrough astronomer: 1900-1979
Toward a Pharmacology of Resolution
An HMS symposium highlights the immune system’s role in ending inflammation.
Deforestation Damages Even the Rainforests That Survive It
The world needs tropical forests—but rainforest destruction continues unabated, and it may be even worse than you thought.
On the Front Lines of the Coronavirus Emergency
A conversation with emergency doctor Stuart Harris
Harvard and Guangzhou Institute of Respiratory Health Team to Fight SARS-CoV-2
As the novel coronavirus begins spreading in populations outside China, Harvard announces a collaboration with Chinese researchers to develop diagnostics and therapies for treating SARS-CoV-2.
Healthy Plate, Healthy Planet
Frank Hu confronts the triple threats of obesity, undernutrition, and climate change.
by Jacob Sweet
Short-term increases in air pollution linked to several new diseases
Researchers studying 95 million Medicare records find new fine-particle impacts in the blood, gut, skin, kidneys, and other organs.