Orchid bees in flight extend their hind legs for stability.
A Harvard anthropologist argues that cooking, a cultural practice, crucially shaped human evolution.
With “spaced education,” a surgeon offers a better way to learn.
Imprinted genes may affect the timing of pregnancy and nursing in humans.
“Super-recognizers” have an astonishing ability to identify faces.
Architects are beginning to employ biomimicry, studying nature as a model for building design.
Why a little self-indulgence makes sense.
A star more than 13 billion years old
Mathematician Lawren Smithline ’94 has decrypted an encoded message sent to Thomas Jefferson in 1801.
Modeling tumors may help scientists beat cancer.
After depression patients recover, their brains still process criticism differently.
New three-dimensional PDF technology allows Harvard astronomers—and you—to explore worlds hundreds of light-years away.
Controls on fine particle pollution extended average lifespan in the United States by five months between 1980 and 2000.
A new technique aims to boost the body’s ability to seek out and destroy cancer cells.
Energy is the key to understanding human evolution—and to saving ourselves and our planet, says Daniel Lieberman.
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