Jonathan Shaw

Jonathan Shaw is Managing Editor.

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.

Harvard scholars study the Amazon rainforest under global climate change

Students grapple with the fate of the rainforest in a changing climate.

Daniel Lieberman tracks the evolution of the human head.

Daniel Lieberman tracks the evolution of the human head.

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.

Profile of Harvard runner Daniel Chenoweth

Senior cross-country captain Daniel Chenoweth outruns the competition.

Exercise and caloric restriction counter aging in neural synapses

Caloric restriction and exercise boost mental acuity and motor ability by rejuvenating synapses.

David Scadden studies cellular environments, seeking the origins of cancer

David Scadden studies the environmental cues that can cause normal cells to become diseased.