Jonathan Shaw
Features | September-October 2011
Political diversity among university faculty
Is the faculty's political landscape changing?
George Whitesides lab snuffs small flames with electricity
Harvard scientists have discovered how to extinguish flames by pushing them off their fuel source with an electric field.
Photographer David Arnold and others document coral reefs in decline
The world's most fragile marine ecosystems are in decline.
Metabolomics, the study of metabolites, provides telling clues to future health
The study of metabolites does an end run around genomics to provide telling clues to your future health.
Sean Dorrance Kelly’s "All Things Shining" and the pursuit of a meaningful life
In a new book, All Things Shining, philosopher Sean Dorrance Kelly confronts modern nihilism with a guide for learning how to live a meaningful life.
Robert Eccles on the benefits of integrated reporting
Integrated reporting gives stakeholders information about the sustainability of a corporation’s business.
Features | January-February 2011
Harvard scholars study the Amazon rainforest under global climate change
Students grapple with the fate of the rainforest in a changing climate.
Features | January-February 2011
Daniel Lieberman tracks the evolution of the human head.
Daniel Lieberman tracks the evolution of the human head.
Right Now | January-February 2011
Charles Lieber's nanoscale transistors can enter cells without harming them
Chemist Charles Lieber and his colleagues have developed a nanoscale transistor so small it can enter, probe, and communicate with cells without harming them.
John Harvard's Journal | November-December 2010
Profile of Harvard runner Daniel Chenoweth
Senior cross-country captain Daniel Chenoweth outruns the competition.
Right Now | November-December 2010
Exercise and caloric restriction counter aging in neural synapses
Caloric restriction and exercise boost mental acuity and motor ability by rejuvenating synapses.
Right Now | September-October 2010
David Scadden studies cellular environments, seeking the origins of cancer
David Scadden studies the environmental cues that can cause normal cells to become diseased.