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Arts & Culture
How fashion police have been walking beat for centuries
Houghton Library exhibit highlights the policing of women’s fashion since the 17th century.
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Science & Tech
When your research donor is 6
First-grader raises $1,000 for axolotl research, meets her scientist hero — and maybe gets taste of what she wants to do when she grows up
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Science & Tech
‘It feels very personal’
Jessica Whited overcame many obstacles to become a scientist, and her work was rooted in family’s blue-collar history. Then came funding cuts.
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Nation & World
Turns out two-parent households are no fix for racial inequality
New data-based study debunks long-held notion, finds wide opportunity gaps remain
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Science & Tech
Methane tracking satellite lost in space — what now?
Enough data collected already to map potent greenhouse gas emissions, says lead researcher
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Nation & World
Did U.S.-Russia talks on Ukraine make things worse?
Incursions, increase in aggression really just part of ongoing push by Putin to destabilize ties of allies, scholars and analysts say
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Health
Making real gains in war on Alzheimer’s
Researchers hope new technologies, approaches usher in era of effective treatment for incurable disease amid urgency of ‘silver tsunami’
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Science & Tech
How AI could radically change schools by 2050
In Ed School panel, Howard Gardner says tech could make ‘most cognitive aspects of mind’ optional for humans
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Campus & Community
Katie Patton scores historic first in Harvard football program
New director of operations is first woman in the role at Harvard, youngest woman in Division I
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Science & Tech
Claims of pure bloodlines? Ancestral homelands? DNA science says no.
Geneticist explains recent analyses made possible by tech advances show human history to be one of mixing, movement, displacement
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Science & Tech
His lab’s ancient DNA studies are rewriting human history
Yet federal funding cuts have put next chapter of David Reich’s work in doubt
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Nation & World
Jill Lepore on ‘We the People’
Jill Lepore describes a document built for tinkering in new history of the Constitution
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Science & Tech
How an astronaut calculates risk
With blast-off date approaching, Anil Menon prepares for the ‘impossible’
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Nation & World
How Supreme Court may get chance to re-examine landmark climate ruling
Legal scholars say justices could reverse ruling allowing EPA to regulate greenhouse gas emissions on technical grounds amid shift in court makeup
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Work & Economy
AI took your job — can retraining help?
Study finds benefits to displaced workers even in occupations at risk of automation
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Campus & Community
Deming brings a researcher’s perspective to leadership role
New dean of Harvard College discusses academics, AI, and campus life
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Health
Only 1 in 4 addicted to opioids takes life-saving meds. Why?
Study examining potential solution to treatment gap — especially in rural areas — gets federal funding cut
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Work & Economy
Economy is doing OK. So why are Americans so pessimistic about their prospects?
Scholars say government statistics can miss lived experience, politics taking larger role in shaping perceptions
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Nation & World
Data bolsters theory about plunging Catholic Mass attendance
Surveys tracking religious engagement globally show decline starts after church’s 1960s reforms
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Science & Tech
Our viral vocabulary
Adam Aleksic — aka the ‘Etymology Nerd’ — discusses how social media algorithms are transforming language
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Arts & Culture
Her Cambridge iconography made her a local icon
Before New Yorker covers, Barbara Westman created colorful visions of campus as Gazette’s first staff artist
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Health
‘Shared humanity’ is their call to action, here and there
No letup in doctors’ commitment to easing suffering in world’s danger zones
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Science & Tech
What is creativity without sweat and tears?
Philosophers, psychiatrist consider what we lose when we outsource struggle to AI
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Health
New blood test detects HPV-associated head and neck cancer 10 years early
Tool identifies disease before symptoms appear
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Nation & World
‘Now I have become death, the destroyer of the worlds’
Oral history offers kaleidoscopic view of angst and relief, hope and dread at test of atomic bomb 80 years ago
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Campus & Community
Healthy Minds Survey points to encouraging findings, areas for renewed focus
Survey assessed student mental health, sense of belonging, and utilization of services and resources on campus
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Health
Your body fought off the virus — but damaged your lungs
Researchers zero in on potential key to rapidly repairing tissue harmed by inflammation
