| 3.1.2008
When an infection assails the body, the response is predictable. Fever, loss of appetite, fatigue, that achy feeling—we never get just one...
| 1.1.2008
For Anita Elberse, whose latest research investigates the impact of big-name stars on films’ revenues, pop culture and rigorous analysis...
| 11.1.2007
If those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it—as philosopher George Santayana, A.B. 1886, once wrote—and if news...
Google, which earned $1.1 billion in operating income in the second quarter of 2007 alone, is now the single most important company on the...
| 9.1.2007
The idea seems simple enough: Get detailed information about the participants in a given social program—public-housing residents, say, or...
| 5.1.2007
In a single undergraduate course last fall, students tackled all of the following: engineering nanofood particles to combat childhood obesity...
Every Tuesday afternoon at the Kennedy School of Government, over lunch, a group of 10 people debates ethical questions that, in one form or...
| 3.1.2007
In a laboratory behind the Science Center, researchers are working on a high-stakes project at the nexus of physics and biology. If all goes...
| 11.1.2006
These days, prescription drug ads bombard the consumer at every turn. Even so, the $4 billion spent annually on direct-to-consumer...
| 9.1.2006
Doctors once kept jars full of sugar pills, in various colors, in their offices. “Take two of these and call me in the morning...
| 7.1.2006
Imagine the brain as a giant filing cabinet. The puzzle of deciphering the labels on the drawers has occupied many a scientist and philosopher...
| 5.1.2006
One day, mental exercise may join physical exercise on Americans’ to-do lists and among their doctors’ recommendations. So says a...
